withdrew

to

Tioga, while the Moravian Indians,

who had taken no part in the transaction, removed to Gnadenhiitten.

Failing to reach the guilty, a band of lawless whites

determined to punish the innocent, and with a hatred born of the pernicious teachings of Church, banded together to exter

minate the whole Indian race, " that the saints might possess

Sixty in number, these maddened zealots fell upon CanestogoesJ a small clan of Onelda dependents residing

the land." the

upon their reservation in the most inoffensive manner, hacked chief in pieces in his bed, murdered three men, two women and a boy, and burnt their houses. But few of the Indians were at home, being absent selling their little wares

their

among the people.

On their return the magistrates of Lancas

ter collected them and

ings for protection.

the

open and the massacre commenced. saw they had no protection, and that wretches poor

building

" When the

placed them in one of the public build

Thither they were followed by the fanatics,

broken

they could not escape, and being without the least weapon of defense, they divided their little families, the children clinging to their parents ; they fell on their faces, protested their inno cence, declared their love for the English, and that in their

whole lives they had never done them any harm, and in this Men, women and children, posture they received the hatchet. infants clinging to the breast, were all

inhumanly butchered in

cold blood." z

The Moravian Indians at Gnadenhiitten fled to Philadelphia, and were followed thither by their maddened persecutors, whose