28 Western Pennsylvania and Virginia, who determined to retaliate. A company of volunteer militia was raised and placed under the command of Col. Williamson. They set out for the Moravian towns on the Tuscarawas and arrived within a mile of Gnadenhutten on the evening of the 5th of March. The next morning, tinding the Indians at work in their cornfields on the west side of the river, sixteen of Williamson's men crossed over, two at a time, in a large sap-trough, or vessel for retaining sugar-water, taking their arms with them. The remainder marched into the town, where they found a man and woman, both of whom they killed. The men who had crossed over found the Indians more numerous than they had anticipated. They had their arms with them as was usual on such occasions, both for purpose of protection and for killing game. ' The whites accosted them kindly, promising them protection and advising them to remove with them to the neighborhood of Fort Pitt. Some of them had been taken there the year before and had been treated kindly by the American commandant at the fort and had been dismissed with tokens of friendship. It
RkJQdWJsaXNoZXIy MTM4ODY=