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NYJ-P.782.001
6 Jan 1782:12,21 (1926)
Philadelphia, Dec.22. Extract of a letter dated Fort Pitt,
Nov.4th, 1781. "I am glad of this opportunity to give you
an account of the taking of the three Moravian Indian
congregations. the 4th of August last a string of wampum,
from the half King of the Wiondat nation, was delivered to
them with a message, that he intended to come to them with a
great number of warriors, but they should not be afraid,
because he was their friend, and that he himself was coming
along with the rest of his people. According to this
message there arrived on the 6th of August 150 warriors,
they encamped at the lower end of the town of Gnadenhitten.
. . [8 more lines, more warriors arrive, in council with
residents ask them to leave because "they and their Indians
were in their way", but residents refuse. Then] The Wiondats
immediately began to kill their hogs and cattle, and
destroyed every thing in their way. All night they danced
the war dance and made a most shocking noise. All the good
works the old men, &c. used to persuade them to leave off
had no effect. . . [55 more lines, describing the uprooting
of the Moravians, driving them to Sandusky, where they had
neither:"clothes, provisions nor houses".
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