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four hundred strong, 56 crossed the Ohio, in the 

 end of July, and marched against a Shawnee town 

 on the Muskingum. They had a brisk skirmish 

 with the Shawnees, drove them back, and took five 

 scalps, losing two men killed and five wounded. 

 Then the Shawnees tried to ambush them, but their 

 ambush was discovered, and they promptly fled, 

 after a slight skirmish, in which no one was killed 

 but one Indian, whom Cresap, a very active and 

 vigorous man, ran down and slew with his toma- 

 hawk. 57 The Shawnee village was burned, seventy 

 acres of standing corn were cut down, and the set- 

 tlers returned in triumph. On the march back they 

 passed through the towns of the peaceful Moravian 

 Delawares, to whom they did no harm. 



56 Under a certain Angus MacDonald, do., p. 722. They 

 crossed the Ohio at Fish Creek, 120 miles below Pittsburg. 

 67 "Am. Archives," IV, Vol. I, pp. 682, 684. 



