relate!J these benefactors were, on their return from this mission, waylaid, and fired upon by whites, while crossing Big Beaver in a conoe , and had one man. a Shawa- nese, named Silverheels , (a man ofnote in his nation)
wounded in the body. This exasperated the Shawa- nese so much, that they, or at least a great part of them, immediately took an active part in the cause; and the Mingoes, (nearest connected with the formerj became unbounded in their rage, A Mr, Jones, son to a respectable family of this neighbour- C 36 3 hood (Bethlehem^) ivbo was then on his passage up Muskinghum . with two other men, was fortunately espied by a friendly Indian woman, at the falls of Muskinghum; who through motives of humanity alo?ie, informed Jones ofthe nature of the times ^ and that he was running right in the hands of the en- raged; and put him on the way, where he might perhaps escape the vengeance of the strolling parties.
One of Jones's men, fatigued by travelling in the woods, declared he would rather die than remain longer in this situation; and hitting accidentally on a path, he determined to follow the same. A few hundredyards decided \\'$>fate. He was met by a party of about fifteen Mingoes., fand as it happened, almost within sight of White Eyes Town, J mur- dered., and cut to pieces; and his limbs and flesh stuck up on the bushes. White Eyes, on hearing the Scalp Halloo, ran immediately out ivith his men.^ to see what the matter was; andfinding the mangled body in this condition, gathered the whole and buried it But next day, when some of the above party found on their return the body interred , they instantly tore up the ground., and endeavored to destroy, or scatter about., the parts at a greater distance.
White Eyes, with the Delawares., watching their motions, gathered and interred the same a second time. The war party finding this out, ran furiously into the Delaware Village, exclaiming against the conduct of these people, setting forth the cruelty of Cresap towards women and