month when all the settlements along the Susquehanna, between Shamokin and Hunter's mill, for a distance of fifty miles, were Early in November the Great and Little hopelessly deserted. Cove were attacked and the inhabitants either put to death or taken prisoners, and the settlements totally destroyed.
These blows were promptly seconded by the eastern organ ization under
Teedyuscung. Assembling his allied Lenape, Shawanoe and Mabican warriors at Nescopec, he marked out the plan of the campaign for the coming autumn and winter. Its operations were to be restricted to the
ct
walking purchase,"
was resolved to chastise the English first,%y them a war of extermination. From their lurk waging against within which
it
ing places in the fastnesses of the Great warriors, led
Swamp, the wronged
by Teedyuscung in person, sallied forth
on
their
marauds, striking consternation into the hearts of the settlers. Falling upon the farms along the Susquehanna and Delaware, they fired the harvested grain and fodder in barns and in barracks,
destroyed large numbers of cattle and horses, and killed thirteen On the 24th of November the Moravian mission at persons.
Gnadenhutten was surprised and ten of its converts scalped, or shot, or tomahawked, or burned to death in their dwellings. This was but the prelude to the tragedy which was to be per formed. Along the northern line of the tract which had been
so fraudulently surveyed, the tide of devastation rolled its black
Within a month, fifty farm houses were plun ening current. and dered burned, and upwards of one hundred persons killed on the