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WYALUSING WYANTENUC 



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coast of Vancouver id. ; pop. 63 in 1902. 

 Whyack.— Whvmper, Alaska, 73, 1869. Wyah.— 

 Can. Ind. Aff., 264, 1902. 



Wyalusing {M'chwihillusinl; 'at the 

 dwelling place of the hoary veteran,' 

 so called from an ancient warrior who 

 lived near. — Heckewelder). A former 

 Munsee and Iroquois settlement at the 

 site of the present town of the same name 

 in Bradford co., Pa. It was also the site 

 of an older Indian village, called Gohon- 

 toto, which is mentioned by Cammerhoff, 

 who visited the place in 1750. "Here, 

 they tell me," he says, "was in early 

 times an Indian town, traces of which are 

 still noticeable, e. g., corn-pits, etc., in- 

 habited by a distinct nation (neither 

 Aquinoschioni, i. e., Iriquois, nor Dela- 

 wares), who spoke a peculiar language 

 and were called Tehotitachsae; against 

 these the Five Nations warred, and rooted 

 them out. The Cayugas for a time held 

 a number of them, but the Nation and 

 their language are now exterminated and 

 extinct" (Cammerhoff quoted by Clark 

 in .lour. Mil. Exped. Gen. SulUvan, 124, 

 1887). In 1752 Papunhank, a Munsee 

 chief, settled at the site with 20 families. 

 He was a frequent visitor to Philadel- 

 phia, where he came in contact with the 

 Quakers, and later made great preten- 

 sions as a religious teacher. The peo- 

 ple of his village became dissatisfied with 

 his instruction, and after a conference de- 

 cided to take the first religious teacher 

 who came to their village, having been 

 undecided whether they wanted a Quak- 

 er or a Moravian. John Woolman, a 

 Quaker evangelist, who had become ac- 

 quainted with Papunhank during his vis- 

 its to Philadelphia, set out for Wyalusing 

 in May, 176.3, accompanied by Benjamin 

 Parvin. News of the situation reaching 

 David Zeisberger at Bethlehem, he at 

 once started for this promising field, 

 passing Woolman on the mountains be- 

 low Wilkes-Barre. On the way he met 

 Job Chillaway, a Delaware, the messenger 

 and friend of the English, who was then 

 living in Papunhank's village. Together 

 they entered the settlement and were 

 welcomed by the Indians. In a few days 

 Woolman reached the place; he was in- 

 formed of the decision of the council, and 

 that as a consequence they had accepted 

 Zeisberger as their teacher. The latter 

 remained until the outbreak of hostilities 

 during the conspiracy of Pontiac, when 

 he removed the Moravian Indians to 

 Bethlehem, thence to Philadelphia (Arch. 

 Pa., IV, 138, 1853). At the urgent invi- 

 tation of Papunhank, these Indians 

 moved back to Wyalusing, which they 

 reached May 18, 1765. Owing to various 

 causes the mission was abandoned, June 

 11, 1772, by the Moravians, who removed 

 to Beaver r. (see Friedenshuetten) . Dur- 



ing the Revolution the village became a 

 gathering place for hostile Indians and 

 Tories, many of the raids into the Sus- 

 quehanna valley being planned here and 

 at Sheshequin. On Sept. 28, 1778, Col. 

 Hartley marched from Sheshequin, which 

 he had destroyed, and camped that night 

 at Wyalusing, which the Indians had de- 

 serted just before his arrival. On the 

 29th his detachment of about 120 was at- 

 tacked by the Indians a short distance 

 from the village; the Indians were de- 

 feated, leaving 10 dead, while Hartley 

 had 4 killed and 10 wounded. From 

 here he marched to Wyoming (Arch. 

 Pa., VII, 5-9, 1853). On Aug. 5-7, 1779, 

 Sullivan's army encamped at the site of 

 the Indian village when on its expedition 

 to the Seneca country. Rev, Mr Rogers, 

 chaplain in this expedition, says in his 

 journal, "No sign of even the smallest 

 hut was left standing" (Jour. Mil. Exped. 

 Gen. Sullivan, 258, 1887). (g. p. d.) 

 Machachlosung. — Post (1760) in Arch. Pa., in, 743, 

 1S63. Machelusing.— Indian letter (1764), ibid., 

 IV, 170, 1S53. Machochlaung.— Post (1760), op. 

 cit., 744. Machochloschung. — Ibid. Machwihi- 

 lusing. — Dav, Penn., 138, 1843. Mahackloosing. — 

 Proud, Penh., ii, 320, 1798. Makahelousink.— Te- 

 dyuscung (1761) quoted in Col. Ree. Pa., viii, 636, 

 1852. Hakehalousing, Papounan's House. — Ibid., 

 635. M'chwihillusink. — Heckewelder in Trans. 

 .\m. Philos. Soe., n. s., iv, 362, 1834. Michalloa- 

 sen. — Pa. Council (1760) in Col. Rec. Pa., viii, 

 492, 1.S.52. Monmuchloosen.— Pa. Council (1760) 

 in Arch. Pa., in, 743, 18.^3. Papounan's Town,— 

 Hamilton (1761) in Col. Rec. Pa., viii, 648, 1852. 

 Waghaloosen.— Col. Rec. Pa. (1760), ibid., 492. 

 Wealusing. — Grant (1779) in Mil. i:.xped. Gen. Sul- 

 livan, 238, 1887. Wealuskingtown. — Machin 

 (1779), ibid., 194. Wialosing.— German Flats 

 conf. (1770) in N. Y., Doc. Col. Hist., viii, 243, 

 18.57. Wialusing.— Grant (1779) in Jour. Mil. 

 E.^ped. Gen. Sullivan, 138, 1887. Wighaloosen.— 

 Gov. Penn (1768) in Col. Rec. Pa., ix, 425, 436, 

 18.52. Wighalosscon.— Pa. Council (1760), ibid., 

 VIII, 492, 18.52. Wighalousin.— Gov. Hamilton 

 (1761), ibid., 648. Wihaioosing.— Writer of 1784 

 quoted by Harris, Tour, 211, 1805. Wildlucit. — 

 Fellows (1779) in Jour. Mil. E.xped. Gen. Sullivan, 

 86, 1887. Wyalousing.— Petition to Gov. Penn 

 (1764) in Col. Rec. Pa., ix, 139, 18.52. Wyalucing.— 

 Barton (1779) in Jour. Mil. Exped. Gen. Sullivan, 

 5, 1887. Wyalusing.— Hartley (1778) in Arcii. Pa., 

 vn, 7, 1853. Wybusing.— Campfield (1779) in 

 Jour. Mil. Exped. Gen. Sullivan, 53, 1887. Wye- 

 luting.— Livermore (1779) in N. H. Hist. Soc. 

 Coll., VI, 320, 1850. Wylucing.— Gookin (1779) in 

 Jour. Mil. Exped. Gen. Sullivan, 104, 1887. Wy- 

 lusink.— Blake (1779), ibid., 39. Wyolusing.— 

 Dearborn (1779), ibid., 69. 



Wyandot. See Huron. 



Wyandotte. An American breed of 

 fowls, earlier known as Sebright Cochins, 

 said to have sprung from the mating of a 

 Sebright bantam cock and a Cochin hen. 

 The name was proposed at Worcester, 

 Mass., in 1883, by Mr Houdette, and 

 after some opposition it has been accepted 

 as the name of the fowl (T. F. McGrew, 

 U. S. Dept. of Agr. Bull. 31, 1901). 

 The word is the same as Wyandot, the 

 name of one of the peoples of Iroquoian 

 stock. (a. f. c. ) 



Wyantenuc. A village in Litchfield co.. 

 Conn., where there was a great Indian 



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