vania had offered for his scalp.

TEEDYUSCUNG, the most distinguished of the modern Lenape Major Parsons writes kings, was the successor of Tadame. "a that he was lusty, raw-boned man, but haughty and very desirable of respect and command."

of the Moravian Church^ adds

Shiktllimy was

Oneida

chiefs,

He died in 1748.

" :

one of the viceregent

residing

at

Shamokin.

i,

Reichel, in his Memorials

According

to

his

Memorials of the Moravian

67.

own state-

History of Wyoming.

Church,

.

HUDSON RIPER INDIANS.

ment, he was born about the year 1700, in New Jersey, east of Trenton, in which neighborhood his ancestors of the Unamis had been seated from time immemorial. Old Captain Harris, a noted Delaware, was his father.

The same was the father

also of Captain John of Nazareth, of

young Captain Harris, of

Tom, of Jo, and of Sam Evans, a family of high-spirited sons who were not in good repute with their white neighbors. The latter named them, it is true, for men of their own people, and TEEDYUSCUNG they named Honest John yet they disliked and then feared them, for the Harrises were known to grow moody and resentful, and were heard to speak threatening words ;

as they saw their paternal acres passing out of their hands, and their hunting-grounds converted into pasture and plowed fields."

When the Moravians appeared at Bethlehem, TEEDYUSCUNG came to hear them

; soon after professed conversion and was bap His conversion, however, was not proof against the wrongs which his people had suffered, and when the offer of the