1764, Feb.] CAPTURE OF DELAWARE WARRIORS. 113 



offering rewards of fifty dollars for the heads of the 

 two principal Delaware chiefs.^ Two hundred of 

 them, accompanied by a few provincials, left the 

 Oneida country during the month of February, and 

 directed their course southward. They had been 

 out but a few days, when they found an encamp- 

 ment of forty Dela wares, commanded by a formid- 

 able chief, known as Captain Bull, who, with his 

 warriors, was on his way to attack the settlements. 

 They surrounded the camp undiscovered, during 

 the night, and at dawn of day raised the war-whoop 

 and rushed in. The astonished Delawares had no 

 time to snatch their arms. They were all made 

 prisoners, taken to Albany, and thence sent down 

 to New York, where they were conducted, under 

 a strong guard, to the common jail ; the mob 

 crowding round them as they passed, and admir- 

 ing the sullen ferocity of their countenances. Not 

 long after this success, Captain Montour, with a 

 party of provincials and Six Nation warriors, 

 destroyed the town of Kanestio, and other hostile 

 villages, on the upper branches of the Susque- 

 hanna. This blow, inflicted by supposed friends, 



1 Extract from a MS. Letter — Sir W. Johnson to : — 



" For God's Sake exert yourselves like Men whose Honour & every 

 thing dear to tliem is now at stake ; the General has great Expectations 

 from the success of your Party, & indeed so have all People here, & I 

 hope they will not be mistaken, — in Order to Encourage your party 

 I will, out of my own Pocket, pay to any of the Party 50 Dollars for the 

 Head Men of the Delawares there, viz., Onuperaquedra, and 50 Dollars 



more for the Head of Long Coat, alias , in which case they must 



either bring them alive or their whole Heads ; the Money shall be paid to 

 the Man who takes or brings me them, or their Heads, — this I would 

 have you tell to the Head men of the Party, as it will make them more 



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