The pictorial sketch-book of Pennsylvania : or, its scenery, internal improvements, resources, and agriculture, popularly described . rward the Count was regarded by the Indians with the most pro-found veneration. The arrival of Conrad Weiser, soon afterward,\ * This interesting incident was not published in the Counts memoirs, lest, ashe states, the world should think that the conversions that followed amon«- theIndians were attributable to their superstitions. Mr. Chapman, in his historyof Wyoming, has preserved the story, having, as he says, received it from onewho was a companion of the Co
The pictorial sketch-book of Pennsylvania : or, its scenery, internal improvements, resources, and agriculture, popularly described . rward the Count was regarded by the Indians with the most pro-found veneration. The arrival of Conrad Weiser, soon afterward,\ * This interesting incident was not published in the Counts memoirs, lest, ashe states, the world should think that the conversions that followed amon«- theIndians were attributable to their superstitions. Mr. Chapman, in his historyof Wyoming, has preserved the story, having, as he says, received it from onewho was a companion of the Count, and who accompanied him (the author) toWyoming. 248 OFF-HAND SKETCHES. afforded every facility for free communication with the sons of theforest, and the Count remained among them a considerable time afterwards several of the Moravian brethren visited thevalley, and formed an agreeable acquaintance with the Indians,especially with the Nanticoke tribe, one of whom, eighty-seven yearsold, was a remarkably intelligent man. The Missionaries frequentlypreached to them through their interpreter, and the result was the. MISSIONARIES PREACHING TO THE INDIANS. establishment of a regular mission post there, which was successfullymaintained for several years, and until broken up by troubles as ex-traordinary in their origin as they were fatal to the Indians involvedin them. The contention which so long subsisted between the citizens ofConnecticut and Pennsylvania, says Mr. Trego, in his Geography ofPennsylvania, and which caused so much blood to be spilled at Wyo-ming, originated in an interference of the territorial claims of therespective parties. Strange as it may appear at the present day, thisregion was claimed by Connecticut as being within the limits of itscharter as granted by the English government, and in 1753 a companywas formed in that colony for the purpose of making settlements atWyoming. ? In 1762, about two hundred persons from Connecticutarrived, and estab
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