LOKD DUNMORE's WAR. 1^1 



the hands of the Indians. After Mcintosh arrived, he recov- 

 ered the bodies, or rather skeletons of those who fell, when 

 the horses were stolen. These bodies had been mangled 

 by wolves and other wild animals. To revenge themselves 

 on the wolves, the men made a pit, put the dead bodies of the 

 soldiers into it, and covered them so as to leave a pit, so slight- 

 ly covered as not to bear a wolf. On the summit of the pile, 

 they placed a piece of meat. Next morning, they found seven 

 wolves in the pit, which after shooting the wolves, they then 

 covered up and made it the grave of the soldiers and the 

 wolves. 



For two weeks before Mcintosh arrived, the garrison had 

 been on short allowance of sour flour and bad meat. Two 

 men had died from eating wild parsnips, and four others nearly 

 shared their fate, but were saved by medical aid. After the 

 arrival of the provisions, forty of the men made themselves 

 sick by eating to excess. Those who had suffered so much, 

 •and so long, were now relieved, and marched back to Fort 

 Mcintosh. On the second day of their march, great num-' 

 bers of their friends met them, bringing provisions, and con- 

 solation for the sufferers. Major Vernon now took the com- 

 mand of Fort Lawrens, but abandoned it altogether in the au- 

 tumn of 1779. We find, though, that this fort was occupied 

 again, so far as to hold an Indian treaty here, in the winter 

 of 1785. And the same v.inter George R. Clark, Richard 

 Butler and Arthur Lee, commissioners, held a treaty at Fort 

 Mcintosh, 21st January, 1785, which was ratified 2d June,- 

 1785, as the journal of the old congress shows, unless it be 

 expunged by order of the United States senate. 



There was a campaign against the Indians, in 1782, in the 

 spring, only six years before the first settlement at Marietta. 

 This expedition was commanded by Colonel Williamson. In 

 1772 the Moravian missionaries established a missionary sta- 

 tion on the upper part of the Muskingum river. They built 

 several villages, and induced many christian Indians to settle 

 in the now counties of Tuscarawas and Coshocton. These 

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