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At another time, in 1778, Capt. Logan, the friendly Indian already mentioned, notified the patriots in the Juniata Valley, that a man named Preston, a Tory, had gone with a number of companions to Kittanning, he thought, to lead an incursion into the valley. A company under Capt. Thomas Blair, was formed to-intercept this band and near Chest Springs they captured two of the party who related to them the tale of their unfortunate adventure. When near the stronghold, being almost famished with hunger, they started on a run, which act the commandant mistaking for a hostile movement, they were fined upon, and ten of the twelve killed. The survivors were taken to Holliday's fort and hanged upon the lintel over the sallyport, but their captors relented and cut them down, and one of them, Hess by name, afterwards became a soldier in Washington's army.
Violation of the Most Solemn Treaty by the United States Government.
After the close of the Revolutionary War and the institution of the Federal government, one of the early acts President Washington's administration was to execute a treaty of peace and amity with the Indians of the North-West as Northern Ohio was then called. By the terms of this treaty, the Delaware, Shawnese and other Indians had the eastern boundary of their lands fixed and their holdings most solemnly assured to them, President Washington assuring them, "We don't want your lands." More than this, they were empowered to eject encroachers on their lands as they saw fit.
White adventurers, perhaps not knowing of the assurances and powers given to the Indians, and probably little caring, did encroach; the Indians proceeded to eject them; trouble arose; but instead of sending a force to eject the intruders, troops were sent by the government to force the Indians back; they resisted; a bloody war ensued; Gen. Leger St. Clair lost 1,200 troops, in the vain effort to force the Indians back from the lands they held by virtue of the treaty. Finally, about the latter part of 1794, Gen. Anthony Wayne, the hero of Stony Point (Mad Anthony), was sent against them with a large force. As the fox steals upon his intended prey, this ruthless warrior stole upon the Indian settlement, intending to annihilate them; but one of his soldiers, possessed of more humanity than his merciless
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