Shawanoes^ was murdered by trespassers upon the Indian terri tory, and in less than a month forty victims were added to the These acts thoroughly aroused the rapacity of the whites. tribes, and the Lenapes and Skawanoes, under Cornstalk, and the

them intoxicated, fell upon them and knocked them in the head, and scalped them that soon after two other Indians came over to see what detained their friends, and were served in the same

them were killed, who dropped into the and two others they observed fall

river,

peared uneasy, and six of their men were coming across the river to see after their people, who approaching near the shore,

dead in the canoe, and the fifth, upon landing, they could discover very badly wounded so that he could scarce get up the bank." * The very critical situation of Indian affairs, occasioned by the cruelties and murders committed by Cresap, who with

observed the white people lying in ambush

some .frontier

them, and, attempting to return to their camp, were fired upon and two of

dered near forty Indians on the Ohio.

manner; that

for

after this the Indians aptheir

banditti, causelessly

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vm, 471.

mur-

OF HUDSON'S RIPER.

Senecas and Mingoes z led by Logan, threw themselves with fire and tomahawk upon the Virginia border.

The war was nominally concluded in October.

Immediately

outbreak Dunmore organized a force of three thousand men and marched to the Ohio country. One of the divisions

on

its

of this force, under Colonel Lewis, reached the mouth of the