to gain important concessions.

stop hostilities and engage never again to make war upon the Johnson pays this tribute to the prowess of the Lenapes and their allies " The Ohio Indians begun on the frontiers of Pennsylvania, Virginia, and the communications to the posts, three of

sue

which, Presque Isle, Verrango and La After Boeuf, they took immediately.

s

:

laying waste all the frontiers they invested Fort Pitt, and reduced the garrison to

them through

their

different

sucand expeditions depredations would be entering into a tedious detail of

cessful

facts well

here."

known and still sensibly Colonial History, vii, 962.

" Made them all

ber of forty-one,

felt

prisoners to the numtheir chief,

including

to its relief, was attacked by only ninetyfive of them (for I have the best authori-

Captain Bull, son to Teedyuscung, and one who has discovered great inveteracy against the English, and led several parties against them during the present In dianwar." (Johnson, Colonial History, vii, In Memorials of Moravin Church, 611.)

of white men then with the Indians and of several different Indians, who all

three sons, Amos or Tachgokanhelle, the

much danger. Col. Boquet, with six hunmen and a large convoy, marching

dred

ties

agree that that is the' true number), who killed about sixty of his people and greatly obstructed his march. In short, to puri,

252, it is stated that Teedyuscung had

and

Kesmitas, John Jacob." At Captain Bull was probably Amos. that time he was thirty-four years old. oldest,