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INDEX. 



Sandusky, fort, captured by the 

 Indians, i. 271. 



Sault Ste. Marie, a military post, 

 i, 324; abandoned by the Eng- 

 Ush, 361. 



Schlosser, Ensign, taken prisoner 

 by Indians, i. 273, 274. 



School children, with their master, 

 murdered and scalped by In- 

 dians, ii. 89. 



Schoolcraft, Henry R., quoted, i. 5, 

 11, 14, 217, 220. 



Scotch-Irish in Pennsylvania, ii. 84 ; 

 their peculiarities, ib. 



Seneca Indians join in the plot 

 against the EngUsh, i. 180, 187 ; 

 a party of them take and destroy 

 Venango, ii. 20, 29 ; destroy a 

 convoy at the Devil's Hole, 79 ; 

 make peace with the English, 

 171. See Iroquois. 



Shawano^s, scattered widely after 

 their defeat by the Iroquois, i. 32 ; 

 driven again from their homes, 

 87 ; carry on hostilities against 

 the EngUsh, 143 ; their number 

 estimated, 148 ; their villages, 

 150 ; Colonel Bouquet compels 

 them to sue for peace, ii. 223. 



Shippen, Edward, a magistrate of 

 Lancaster, gives to Governor 

 Penn an account of the massacre 

 in Lancaster jail, ii. 126 note. See 

 Appendix E. 



Shippensburg, Pa., crowded with 

 fugitives from the frontiers, ii. 67 

 note. 



Small-pox, proposal to infect the 

 Indians with it, ii. 39, 40 ; this 

 disease found to exist among 

 them, 40 note. 



Smith, James, commands a body of 

 border rilieraen, ii. 98 ; adopts 

 the Indian costume and tactics, 

 lb. ; a further account of him, 99 

 note; heads a predatory expedi- 

 tion of Paxton men, 277 ; his 

 narration of the affair, 280 note. 



Smith, Matthew, a leader among 

 the Paxton men, ii. 119; con- 

 ducts a party of men against the 

 Indians at Conestoga, 120 ; the 

 massacre, 121 ; Smith's narration 

 of the affair, 121 note ; he threat- 

 ens to fire on his minister's horse 

 if not allowed to pass, 124 ; leads 

 in the massacre of Indians in 



Lancaster jail, ib. ; conducts an 

 armed rabble to Philadelphia, 

 with a purpose to kill the Mora- 

 vian Indians, 136 ; proceeds to 

 Gei-mantown, and tiiere halts, 

 146 ; treaty with the rioters, 148. 

 See Appendix Fi., vol. ii. pp. 352- 

 356. 



Smith, Wilham, of New York, his 

 account of Pontiac, i. 256 note. 



Smollett's history of England, 

 quoted in reference to the " Iloyal 

 Americans," ii. 30 note. 



Solomons, an English fur-trader, 

 i. 331. 



Spangenburg, a Moravian bishop, 

 attends the great Iroquois coun- 

 cil at Onondaga, i. 9 note ; his 

 account of it, ib. 



St. Ange de Bellerive, commander 

 of the French fort Chartres, ii. 

 249 ; keeps the Indians quiet, ib. ; 

 has a visit from Pontiac, 265 ; to 

 whom he refuses aid, 265, 285. 



St. Aubin, a Canadian, i. 218; his 

 account of the siege of Detroit, 

 Appendix C. 



St. Ignace, mission of, i. 325. 



St. Joseph River, a French fort 

 there, i. 59, 62 ; taken possession 

 of by the English, 170 ; the fort 

 captured by Indians, 273. 



St. Louis founded by Laclede, ii. 

 257 ; surprising changes there in 

 the memory of the living, 258. 



St. Pierre, Legardeur de, French 

 commandant on the waters of the 

 Ohio, i. 98. 



Stedman, conductor of. a convoy, 

 escapes from the Indians, ii. 77. 



Stewart, Lazarus, a leader oi the 

 Paxton men, ii. 123 ; appre- 

 hended on a charge of murder, 

 128 ; escapes to Wyoming, ib. : 

 issues a " declaration," ib. ; the 

 document quoted, 116 note; favor- 

 able character of laim given by 

 Rev. John Elder, 127 note. 



Superstitious regard of Indians for 

 insane persons illusti'ated by a 

 curious story, ii. 9, 10 ; supersti- 

 tious regard for rattlesnakes, ii. 

 168 note, 248 note. 



Susquehanha River, its banks a 

 scene of Indian warfare, ii. 99 et 



