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

frontiers on both " All our border

sides of the

Kittatinny, or endless

country," writes a chronicler of the day, " extending from the Potomac to the Delaware, not less than one hills.

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hundred and fifty miles in length and between twenty and thirty in breadth, has been entirely deserted, its houses reduced to ashes, and the cattle, horses, grain and other possessions of the inhabitants either destroyed, burned or carried off by the Indians ;

while such of the poor planters who, with their wives, children and servants, escaped from the enemy, have been obliged, in this inclement season of the year, to abandon their habitations

almost naked, and to throw themselves upon the charity of those

who dwell in the interior of the province."' The Minsis, unleashed, performed their part clan,

it

will

for each tribal

be borne in mind, was, by the terms of the compact,

required to strike within the territory which they claimed as their and on the borders of birthright

Ulster and Orange counties in