133 FROM MITCHINERS HISTORY. Legend of The White Captive and Indian Chief at New Schoenbrunn: — In the year 1779. a band of Wyandots, on their way home from the Ohio to the Sandusky, stopped at New Schoenbrunn. on the Truscarawas, about one and a half miles from the present site of New Philndelphia. They had with them a young white woman, and two scalps, together with plunder they had stplen from some murdered settlers, over on the Monongahela. It was night when they came in, and having whiskey with them, were turbulent and noisy. They called on father Zeisberger, and demanded something to eat, telling him they intended to rest that night with him. He complied with their demand, by having food prepared by the converted Indian women at the mission, and taken out to the warriors. They had built a fire in the only street or path of the place, and which street was obliterated in constructing the Ohio Canal fifty years afterward. After feasting on the provisions, consisting of corn-bread and meat, and taking their smoke from rude corn-cob pipes, the savages prepared a spot nearly opposite the house of Zeisenberger, and began their war-dance, which was kept up for some
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