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Rh forth the cruelty of Creſap towards women and children, and declaring at the ſame time, that they would, in conſequence of this cruelty, ſerve every white man they ſhould meet with in the ſame manner. Times grew worſe and worſe, war parties went out and took ſcalps and priſoners, and the latter, in hopes it might be of ſervice in ſaving their lives, exclaimed againſt the barbarous act which gave riſe to theſe troubles, and againſt the perpetrators. The name of Greathouſe was mentioned as having been an accomplice to Creſap. So deteſtable became the latter name among the Indians that I have frequently heard them apply it to the worſt of things; alſo in quieting or ſtilling their children, I have heard them ſay, Huſh! Creſap will fetch you; whereas otherwiſe, they name the owl. The warriors having afterwards bent their courſe more toward the Ohio, and down the ſame, peace ſeemed with us already on the return; and this became the caſe ſoon after the decided battle fought on the Kanhaway. Traders, returning now into the Indian country again, related the ſtory of the above mentioned maſſacre, after the ſame manner, and with the ſame words, we have heard it related hitherto. So the report remained and was believed, by all who reſided in the Indian country. So it was repreſented numbers of times, in the peaceable Delaware towns, by the enemy. So the chriſtian Indians were continually told they would one day be ſerved. With this impreſſion, a petty chief hurried all the way from Wabaſh in 1779 to take his relations (who were living with the peaceable Delawares near Coſhachking,) out of the reach of the Big