Stimulated by these representations, the infuriated Lenapes fell upon the unsuspecting whites, on the I4th, and massacred about cattle, rifled their stores, and at night torch to the applied dwellings and barns, and lighted up the val

thirty,

drove off their

ley with their destruction.

The fall of Teedyuscung accomplished its perpetrators had

designed,

the purpose which

the Lenapes were consolidated in

interest, and the alliances of the Senecas made complete.

The

governor of Pennsylvania sent troops to the scene of conflict, x

The

Indians went away much dissathe .,

tisfied, especially the Six Nations, /.

Senecas. left

The Shaivanoes and Delaware*

most of their presents on the road to

known.

His successor,

Nctaivaticives,

held the throne untill 1776, when by his death, it devolved upon Coquehagechton, alias

White Eyes, who, during the

early

the Ohio. Manuscripts, vi, 144. Stone and other writers use the term Iroquois, implying the participation of

part of the Revolution, was distinguished for his friendship to the colonists and for

the confederacy in the transaction, and assuming that they were offended at the growing power of Teedyuscung. Such an interpretation does not correspond with The Indians were the apparent facts. Iroquois it is true, but it is also true that

(Fort Laurens) of "The person on small-pox in 1778. whom, by lineal descent, the station of head-chief of the nation devolved, being

they were Senecas or

Pushis, alias Large Cat, and Tetepachksi The young king officiated in his stead."

those

engaged in

stirring up hostilities in the west.