350 HISTORY OP 



Six Nations/^ who occupied a spot of ]ynd in Manor 

 townsliip. 



Oil Wcdncsd.'iy, llic lltli of December, 1703, at day 

 break, " a iiuinlx;)- of armed mounted men, principally 

 from Donci^^al and Paxton townships, attacked the 

 Ij)dian vill;ij-^e, ;:nd barbarously njassacrcd some women 

 and cliildici), :ind ;i few old njcn ; jiiuonpsl tlie hiller, the 

 chi(.-f, Shali(,'as, who had" always been distininiishcd for 

 his fri(;ndshij) towards the whites. The majority of the 

 Indian villagers were abroad at the time of the attack."! 

 After slaying those at home, their huts were set on fire, 

 and most of them burned down.t "The magistrates of 

 Lancaster sent out to collcr^t the surviving ones, brought 

 them into town, for their better security against any 

 further attempt ; and it is said condoled with them on the 

 misfortune that had iiappened, took them by the hand, 

 and }4'omised th(;m jirotrction. They were ])iit in the 



*J\. C. a writer in the Intelligencer k Jonrnul says: "The 

 Indians at Cunestogo, at Itio lime of its dcbtruciion consisted 

 of kSenecas, Mingcjos, Pcqucas, 6<:c. The Mingoes were not 

 of the five nations ; they belonged to a distant tribe of tiiat 

 lianic." 



fCordon'sPa. 405. 



I One (jf these liuts or cabins still exists. It is occupied as a 

 kitchen by Isaac Kuhn — it is built of round logs. The writer 

 had been in this cabin, December?, 1812. 



Nr)TE, — In a pamphlet ascribed to B. Fran'klin, written in 

 17G4, we find the following names of Indians, who resided at 

 ('oncstoga: Shehaes, a very old man ; Peggy, his daughter; 

 John, an old man; Harry; George and Bill Soc, brothers, 

 both young men ; Betty a harmless old woman, and her son 

 Peter, a likely young lad ; John Smith, who had married Sally, 

 whose Indian name wa;3 Wyanjoy. — >^^)ark's Franklin^ IV ^ 

 r>l-57. 



