crops of corn, potatoes and garden vegetables and remove with their unwelcome visitors to the neighborhood of Sandusky. The missionaries were taken to Detroit where they were accused of being spies. They succeeded in convincing their persecutors of their true characters, but were held for some time as prisoners. The Moravian Ind ians at Sandusky suffered much from cold and hunger during the winter, and in early spring were permitted to return to their settlements on the Tuscarawas for the purpose of gathering the corn left on the stalk the preceding fall. About one hundred and fifty Christian Indians, including women and children arrived on the Tuscarawas in the latter part of February, and divided into three parties so as to work at the three towns, in the cornfields. Satisfied with having escaped the thralldom of their less civilized brethren in the west, they little expected the storm about to burst over their peaceful habitations with such direful consequences.- Williamson’s Expedition and the Massacre. Hostile Indians had committed several depredations on the frontier inhabitants of
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