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women and children, with the nations to whom they 

 belonged, passed and repassed through the villages of 

 the quiet Delaware towns, in search of white people, 

 making use of the most abusive language to these (the 

 Delawares,) since they would not join in taking re- 

 venge. Traders had either to hide themselves, or try 

 to get out of the country the best way they could. And 

 even, at this time, they yet found such true friends 

 among the Indians, who, at the risk of their own lives, 

 conducted them, with the best part of their property, to 

 Pittsburg ; although (shameful to relate !) these bene- 

 factors were, on their return from this mission, ivaylaid, 

 and fired upon by whites, while crossing Big Beaver in 

 a canoe, and had one man, a Shawnese, named Silver- 

 heels, (a man of note in his nation) wounded in his bo- 

 dy. This exasperated the Shawnese so much, that they, 

 or at least a great part of them, immediately took an ac- 

 tive part in tlie cause ; and the Mingoes, (nearest connect- 

 ed with the former, becam.e unbounded in their rage. A 

 Mr. Jones, son to a respectable family of this neigh- 

 bourhood (Bethlehem,) who'was then on his passage 

 up Muskingum, with two other men, was fortunately 

 espied by a friendly Indian woman, at the falls of Mus- 

 kingum : who through motives of humanity alone, in- 

 formed Jones of the nature of the times, and that he 

 was running right in the hands of the enraged ; and put 

 him on the way, where he might perhaps escape the 

 vengeaiiceof the strolling parties. One of Jones's men, 

 fatigued by travelling in the woods, declared he would 

 rather die than remain longer in this situation ; and hit- 

 ting accidentally on a path, he determined to follow 

 the same. A few hundred yards decided his fate. He 

 was met by a party of about fifteen Mingoes, (and as it 

 happened, almost within sight of White Eyes Town,j 

 murdered dnd cut to pieces ; and his limbs and flesh 

 stuck up on the bushes. White Eyes, on hearing tho 

 Scalp Halloo, ran immediately out with his men, to 

 see what the matter was; and finding the mangled 

 body in tiiis condition, gathered tiie whole and buried 

 it. But next day, when sonic of the above party found 



