10 The council then decided to give Post even a rger garden spot than the missionaries at Detroit possessed. They agreed that it should be fifty steps each way, and the next day Captain Pipe, one of their chieftains, stepped it off for him, and though small, the white man had secured an inheritance on the banks of the beautiful Tuscaraw’as. An Indian treaty meeting had been appoint-, ed at Lancaster that summer, and Mr. Post attended. He induced several of the Indians to attend with him. Young Heckewelder was left in charge of the mission to instruct - , the children during Post’s absence. In a short time after Post’s departure it became known to Heckewelder that the Indians, at the instigation of the French, wrere taking up arms against the English. He wrote to Post telling him of his critical situation, and received an answer advising him to quit the mission and leave the country lest he should . be murdered. He set out in October with some traders, for Pittsburg, and on the way met Mr. Post and Alexander McKee, an Indian agent, and apprised them of thedanger of attempting to visit the Indian towns. McKee was on his way to receive some cap-
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