59 preacher who spoke much against the use of whisky, and made such an impression on the mind of Chief Killbuck that he became a convert and was opposed to intemperance ever afterward. Killbuck did not believe in any halfway measures in the matter of reform and while Mr. Jones remained at New Comers- town, destroyed all the liquor on hand, and notified the traders that if they brought any more whisky among the Indians they (the traders) would be scalped. Such a decided position on the temperance question did not give much room for argument. It aroused the enmity of the drinking Indians against the preacher and they again threatened his life. His danger becoming very great, the chief escorted him to Gnadenhutten. and from, there to Schoenbrunn, from which place the Moravian Indians saw him safe to Fort Pitt. In the year 1774 the Delawares removed their capital to Goshockunk (Coshocton.) As a tribe they usually used their influence to maintain peace between the white settlers and the Indians; but when the Revolutionary War broke out the tribe became.divided in its allegiance to the Colonists and the British. Girty, McKee, Anderson and Elliott went
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