137 extent, lost. A party of Mingo warriors were at the time coming down the Tuscarawas trail, which crossed the river at what was afterward called the Canton fording place, about one mile north of New Philadelphia of the present time, and near the ford was a large spring, since called the Federal Spring. The Mingoes caught some of the pack-horses laden with provisions and brought them to the spring, where they camped until the provisions were eaten up. Among them was a warrior chief of great stature, who had with him a white squaw, who had been captured in Pennsylvania, and after many hair-bread th escapes, had become the warrior’s wife, out of gratitude, if not love, for having saved her life at the time. When the Mingoes broke camp, this warrior and wife proceeded on a visit to New Schoenbrunn, about one and a half miles south-east of New Philadelphia, where they heard Zeisberger preach, and manifesting some outward feelings of religion, the chief and wife were solicited to join the mission. She assented, but the warrior refused, and she would not join without him. The Indian women about the mission then undertook to
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