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ers, and ruined families, the men being killed and 

 the women and children driven off to a horrible 

 captivity. 39 The Indians declared that they were 

 not at war with Pennsylvania, 40 and the latter in 

 return adopted an attitude of neutrality, openly dis- 

 claiming any share in the wrong that had been done, 

 and assuring the Indians that it rested solely on the 

 shoulders of the Virginians. 41 Indeed the Shawnees 

 protected the Pennsylvania traders from some hos- 

 tile Mingos, while the Pennsylvania militia shielded 

 a party of Shawnees from some of Conolly's men ; 42 

 and the Virginians, irritated by what they consid- 

 ered an abandonment of the white cause, were bent 

 on destroying the Pennsylvania fur trade with the 

 Indians. 43 Nevertheless, some of the bands of 

 young braves who were out on the warpath failed to 

 discriminate between white friends and foes, and 

 a number of Pennsylvanians fell victims to their 

 desire for scalps and their ignorance or indifference 

 as to whom they were at war with. 44 



The panic along the Pennsylvania frontier was 

 terrible; the out-settlers fled back to the interior 

 across the mountains, or gathered in numbers to 

 defend themselves. 45 On the Virginian frontier, 

 where the real attack was delivered, the panic was 

 more justifiable; for terrible ravages were commit- 

 ted, and the inhabitants were forced to gather to- 

 gether in their forted villages, and could no longer 



39 Do., p. 808. 40 Do., p. 478. 41 Do., p. 506. 



13 DO., p. 474. 43 Do p> 54Qi 44 J) ^ p. 4?I . 



45 Do., pp. 435, 467, 602. 



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