Chronicles of Border Warfare: Or, a History of the Settlement by the Whites, of North-Western Virginia: And of the Indian Wars and Massacres, in That Section of the State; With Reflections, Anecdotes, &C
Chronicles of Border Warfare: Or, a History of the Settlement by the Whites, of North-Western Virginia: And of the Indian Wars and Massacres, in That Section of the State; With Reflections, Anecdotes, &C.
Excerpt: ... of the Redeemer of men, and practising the virtues inculcated by his word. This was their situation, at the time they were removed to Sandusky, early in the fall of 1781. When their missionaries and principal men were liberated by the governor of Detroit, they obtained leave of the Wyandot chiefs to return to the Muskingum to get the corn which had been left there, to prevent the actual starvation of their families. About one hundred and fifty of them, principally women and children went thither for this ...
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Excerpt: ... of the Redeemer of men, and practising the virtues inculcated by his word. This was their situation, at the time they were removed to Sandusky, early in the fall of 1781. When their missionaries and principal men were liberated by the governor of Detroit, they obtained leave of the Wyandot chiefs to return to the Muskingum to get the corn which had been left there, to prevent the actual starvation of their families. About one hundred and fifty of them, principally women and children went thither for this purpose, and were thus engaged when the second expedition under Col. Williamson proceeded against them. In March 1782, between eighty and ninety men assembled themselves for the purpose of effecting the destruction of the Moravian towns. 1 If they then had in 321 contemplation the achieving of any other injury to those people, it was not promulgated in the settlements. They avowed their object to be the destruction of the houses and the laying waste the crops, in order to deprive the hostile savages of the advantage of obtaining shelter and provisions, so near to the frontier; and the removal of the Moravians to Fort Pitt, to preserve them from the personal injury which, it was feared, would be inflicted on them by the warriors. Being merely a private expedition, each of the men took with him, his own arms, ammunition and provisions; and many of them, their horses. They took up the line of march from the Mingo Bottom, and on the second night thereafter, encamped within one mile of the village of Gnadenhutten; and in the morning proceeded towards it, in the order of attack prescribed by a council of the officers. The village being built upon both sides of the river, and the scouts having discovered and reported that it was occupied on both sides, one-half the men were ordered to cross over and bear down upon the town on the western bank, while the other half would possess themselves of that part of it which lay on the eastern shore. Upon the...
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