INDEX. 



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check the career of Iroquois 

 conquest, ib. ; their modes or life, 

 35; sufferings in winter, 36; 

 some of them present at the 

 battle of the Monongahela, 107 ; 

 join Pontiac in his attacli on 

 tlie English, 2oi, 2i8 ; notice 

 of their village on ^lackinaw, 

 3jJ5 ; a party ot' them described, 

 327 ; interview with Alexander 

 Henry, o2/'-ool ; their slaughter 

 of the English garrison at iVlichil- 

 hmackinac, 341 et seq.; hated by 

 the Dahcotahs, 305 ; the Ojibwas 

 ask for peace, ii. 107 ; they con- 

 sult their oracle, 1(36; the answer 

 received, 167 ; peace concluded, 

 174. 



Oiii'idiis, a tribe united in confed- 

 erav^y witii lour othei-s, i. 9. ISee 

 Iroquois. 



Onondaga, council-house at, i. 9 

 note ; description of it, 17, 18 

 note, 149. 



Onondayas, a tribe included in the 

 Confederacy of the Five Nations, 

 i. 9 See Iroquois. 



Oswego, an English fort there, 72 ; 

 taken by the Erench, i. 76, 122, 

 146. 



Otto was, i. 34; present at the battle 

 oftiie Mjnongahela, 107; led by 

 Pontiac, 109 ; their village near 

 Detroit, 215; their attack on 

 Detroit, 235, 239, notice of their 

 village near Mackinaw. 325 ; a 

 party of them visit Mackinaw 

 and threaten English fur-traders, 

 331; take English prisoners from 

 the Ojibwas, 351 ; a party of 

 them take possession of Michilli- 

 mackinac, 352 ; collision with the 

 Ojibwas, 351 tt seq. ; they incite 

 the Delavvares to war against the 

 English, ii. 23; the Uttawas re- 

 fuse to burv the hatcliet, 108 ; 

 they meet b.r vVilliam Johnson 

 at Niagara and make peace, 172, 

 173 ; at Detroit they meet George 

 Croghan fur a like pm-pose, 294. 



Ourry, Captain Lewis, commander 

 at Fort Bedford, ii. 43 ; his 



. slender force, 43, 44 ; his corre- 

 spondence yviih Col. Bouquet, ib. 



Owens, David, diabolically kills and 

 scalps his own Indian wife and 

 se\eral of her relations, ii. 201- 

 203. 



P. 



Paully, Ensign, a captive to the In- 

 dians, i. 270, 271 ; adopted as one 

 of them, ib. ; makes his escape, 

 297. 



Paxton, in Pennsylvania, character 

 of its inliabitauts, ii. 119; its 

 worthy mhiister, John Elder, ib. ; 

 a party of men proceed from this 

 place and murder six friendly 

 Indians, 120 et seq.; the survivors 

 of the massacre lodged in Lan- 

 caster County jail, 122, 123. See 

 Appendix E. The act causes 

 great excitement, 127 ; the deed 

 justirled from Scripture, 128 ; the 

 rioters marcii on Philadelpiiia to 

 kill the ^Moravian converts, 136 ; 

 alarm of the citizens, 138, 145 ; 

 measures for defence, 143 ; treaty 

 with the rioters, 148 ; tliey wita- 

 draw, 150; a party of them make 

 prize of Croghan's goods, 276- 

 278; they escape punishment and 

 set the government at defiance, 

 279. 



Pawnee woman saves the life of 

 Alexander Henry, i. 343 ; the 

 Pawnee tribe, 343 uote. 



Penn, Wilham, his treatment of the 

 Indians, i. 80 ; pays twice for his 

 lands, 82 note ; his sons pursue a 

 contrary polic}', 82. 



Pennsylvania, treatment of the In- 

 dians in, i 80 et stq. ; the " walk- 

 ing purchase," 84 ; shameful 

 conduct of the propi'ietors, 85, 

 102 ; Pennsylvania wasted by 

 Indian war, 142 ; extent of its 

 settlements in 1760, ii. 4; the 

 province refuses aid to its defend- 

 ers, 48, 58; distress of the inhab- 

 itants on its frontier, 52, 53 ; the 

 frontier described, 84 ; origin and 

 character of the inhabitants, ib. ; 

 the frontier settlers betake them- 

 selves to flight before Indian 

 ravage, 86 ; general distress, 94 ; 

 measures of defence opposed by 

 the Quakers in the Assembly, 

 95; w^arfare along the Susque- 

 hanna, 99 et seq. ; contests of the 

 Assembly witn the proprietary 

 governors, 104 ; vigorous meas- 

 m:es at length adopted, 142. 



