History of Seneca County, Ohio . ightassist in mitigating their necessities, they wearily went thitherward. Theybegan gathering their grain, but the Wyandots attacked them, and many liveswere lost. Frontiersmen had also grown jealous of them, and a body of aboutninety marched out together, for the fiendish purpose of pillaging, slaughteringand laying waste all Moravian towns and posts. With the wily insidiousness ofsavages, they went about their tliabolical plan. The Moravians were cordial and• bade this band welcome, when they reached their towns in the guise of friend-ship. Williamson, the l
History of Seneca County, Ohio . ightassist in mitigating their necessities, they wearily went thitherward. Theybegan gathering their grain, but the Wyandots attacked them, and many liveswere lost. Frontiersmen had also grown jealous of them, and a body of aboutninety marched out together, for the fiendish purpose of pillaging, slaughteringand laying waste all Moravian towns and posts. With the wily insidiousness ofsavages, they went about their tliabolical plan. The Moravians were cordial and• bade this band welcome, when they reached their towns in the guise of friend-ship. Williamson, the leader, and the gleaners, were called from the fields,when, to the dismay of these trusting and frank people, they were all bound,and only fifteen out of the marauding band of ninety were in favor of evensparing the lives of these hapless men, women and children. Forty men,twenty-two women and thirty-four children were then cruelly and heartlesslymurdered, their sufferings laughed to scorn, and the last sound that fell on their. r^Ui cCc^ yi^^{K<^^ V- HISTORY OF THE STATE OF OHIO. 8-J ears was exultant derision. Succeeding this tragic event was the expeditionagainst the Indian towns upon the Sandusky. Tho hostile Indians had beenmaking frequent incursions upon the settlements of Western Pennsylvania andVirginia, destroying both life and property. There seemed to be no boundsto their bloody work, and it became necessary, for the peace and safety of thesettlers, to take some measures to prevent their outrages. Accordingly, inMay, 1782, Gen. William Irvine, who was then commander of the WesternMilitary Department, with headquarters at Fort Pitt, called a council of theofiScers of his department to meet at Fort Pitt. At this meeting it was de-cided to form and equip a body of men, and make an expedition into theIndian country. Upper Sandusky, then the rendezvous of the hostile Wyan-dots, Delawares, Shawaneae and Mingoes, was to be the point of attack. Col. William Crawford led
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