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

numbers now swelled

to an

insurgent army.

The governor

called the troops for the protection of the fugitives ; the Indians

An attempt was begged that they might be sent to England. made to send them to the Mohawk country, but after proceeding as far as

Amboy, they were

Another season of terror

recalled.

The Conestogoes are presumed to have

been the remnant of the old Susquehannocks, whose destruction was accomplished by the English of Maryland aided by the Five Nations. They were removed from Maryland and settled among the Oneidas until they lost their language,

when

they were sent to Conestoga. Their name would seem to have been derived from that of the chief under whose charge they were placed. Gallatin, 55. *

Proud ;

see also Life and Times

Wm. Johnson.

of Sir

THE INDIAN TRIBES

ensued, and the governor hid himself away in the house of Dr. The Quakers were alone equal to the occasion, Franklin.