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Onondagas, Cayugas, Senecas, Tuscaroras, Nanticokes, 

 Conoys, Tiiteloes, Chugnuts, Delawares, Uiiamies, Mini- 

 sinks, Mohicons, and Wappingers, whose deputies, with 

 Hieir women and children, amounted to 507. "^ Peace 

 and friendship had now been established between the 

 Enghsh and Indians; all fear of an Indian war van- 

 ished, and the minds of the people had been at rest for 

 some time; but the French war still continued, and occa- 

 sional barbarities were committed upon the frontier set- 

 tlers, by the Indians, till near the close of the war be- 

 tween the English and the French, in 1762 ;t "for there 

 had been a secret confederacy formed among the Shawa- 

 nese, the tribes upon the Ohio and its tributary waters, 

 and about Detroit, to attack, simultaneously, all the 

 English posts and settlements on the frontiers. Their 

 plan was deliberately and skilfully projected. The 

 border settlements were to be invaded during harvest, the 

 men, corn, and cattle, to be destroyed, and the out-posts 

 to be reduced by famine, by cutting off their supplies.— 

 Pursuant to this plan, the Indians fell suddenly upon the 

 traders, whom they had invited among them, mur- 

 dering many, and plundered the effects of all, to 

 au immense value, 



♦Holmes' An. II. 86. 



f July 1, 1757, three men and four children, were murdered 

 and scalped in the vicinity of Tulpehocken. The E-ev. John 

 Nicholas Kurtz, pastor of the Lutheran congregation, at Tul- 

 pehocken, in writing to the P.ev. Muhlenberg, pastor of the 

 Lutheran congregation at New Providence, under date of 

 July 5, 1757, says: Diesen Morgen, wurden sieben erniordete 

 und gescalpte, nemlich drey Maenner and vier Kinder, zur 

 Eeerdigung auf unsern Kirchhof gebracht, so gestern bey 

 Sonnen Untergang, fuenf Meilen von hier von den Indianern 

 BJDgebracht worden, und alle in einem Hause ! 



