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Eisenhauser (Ironcutter) massacred ten Indians, some of them women and threw their bodies into a creek where they were found by their friends. For this crime, Ironcutter was arrested but was released by a mob.
Of course, these crimes incensed the Indians, but an effort was made by the Proprietaries to "cover the bones" of the victims by presenting presents to their relatives, expressing regret and protesting friendship for their brethren, the Indians.
The Indian Walk.
Antedating the outrage of Stump and his confederate was the infamous transaction known in history as "The Indian Walk."
Thomas Holme, Penn's agent, had in 1686 secured from certain Indian chiefs of the Delaware and Shawnese tribes a treaty (some say it was a forgery), for a tract of land to be bounded and described as follows: "Beginning at a spruce tree at the Delaware River near Easton; thence west, northwest by the foot of mountains to a corner whiteoak marked with the letter P, standing by a path that leadeth to an Indian town called Playwickey; and from thence extending westward to Neshamony Creek from which said line, the said tract, or tracts thereby granted doth extend itself back into the woods as far as a man can go, in a day-and-a-half's journey; and from thence by a line to the aforesaid river Delaware; and from thence down the several courses of said river to the first mentioned spruce tree P."
Having by cajolery, and probably plying them with liquor, the Proprietaries finally induced Teshakomen, Nootimus, Monochkkickau and Lappawinzac, chiefs of the Delawares and Shawnese to agree to the walk; so about the 20th of September, 1733, having had a line slashed out through the woods, and having secured, on promise of 500 acres of land each, and some money besides, Ed Marshall, Solomon Jennings and James Yeates, three men reputed the best walkers attainable, the walk was commenced at sunrise and continued until sunset on that day, and renewed the following morning at sunrise. The walkers were accompanied by men on horseback, who carried provisions for them to eat as they walked, and also by three Indians, one of whom was named Combush. Early in the walk - or almost run - Jennings, Yeates and two of the Indians gave out; but Combush kept on, complaining: "No stop to shoot
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