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Be wis & fraijs and literil contrabild un al pubuse calls for money . wa- rictous and lorquiable to white sinstore, aud, like one of the old butone. always kept about his - Mount Pleasant' home i large retinue of his own people
in the Spring of 1940, he was taken sick and, after a lingering iller-t. lied on the heat of May of that year. A numerous . monte of white ch- 20 1. as well as los own people, ummlestal their respect for the chief by a lending his funeral, which took place at his own love , Inte grasse being but A short distance from at on the rising ground to the south. Wapp-jun-what. large or small tracts, are, proverbually, the very best lande for agricultural I called, also, Black Racoon, a thiel and notet orilor, delivered a funeral purposery
Jiscourse on the net sun, which was translated at the time, as follow4
The virent Sparst hus taken to handelt nuother of our once powerful and happy, but now rapidly dlechning uation. The time lines been when these forests were legsely populate i by the real man but the satne hand whose hlichting touch withere Til muggesie Ir one betorr us, and e mised the noble spirit by which it was aninte I to seek another home, has Jr ilt ina like wander with his out our fathers: in hibe manner will it deal withus. Dearts. of late, bas heeg common minong q4e-en much so that sa ocem ronce of it waferly elicita our notice But when the brave. the generous and the pa- tronic are blasted by at, then it is that the tears of sorrow freely flow
" Snch is now the enac : our brother who has just left us was brive, gra- erous aud patriotic, and as a tribute to lue merit and a reward for goodness, the tears, not only at his own people, but of many white mes, who are bers a-sembled to witness the funeral rites, Irvely tlew
. At this wene the pour of his people weep, because at his table they were woot to frist an I rejoice. The weak aumru his death, because bis authority w is dirreted to their prote, tion. But he has left the earth, the place of vexation and enntention, and is now participating with Poeshantay nad Lagat in thuse jny. prepared by the lirent spitit for such as well asod futh- fully discharge their iluties hore Brothers, let us emulate his example and practice his virtiun
His sons, tisbriel, noul William, own and entuvate their farmy on the Visszainwa, the same thing part of their father . reservation of five sec- tion«. unbriel has a splendid farm, which he cultivates largely, and a hne brick re-idence, where he live. with his fanaty surrounded by ull the com- turis due to industry and good mangement.
The settlement of the l'activationies as Wesaw's Village, and of the Wess at Flower's Village, tonk place in is_ or 1>27, while tien Tipton was Tr han Agent, or superintendent, tor ull the tribew in Inhaas. The Winmis did not Like the near neighborship, uml regardlel these people as tre-pasmer4 Tlus ill-will magitestra utyelf in conflict- which ithelstut4 resulted in the .lextb of one or more of the parties enrigged. Dne cuse occurre.l of the kin.] at Miamisport in 1823. Three Indians of the Flowers party were going over into the reserve, somtb of the W chash, to hunt. They sent by Times- port, is that was a crossing-place und perhaps to get whisky. They gol anto a fight with some than- there, and two of the Flowers party were killed, and the other so hwilly wonn del that he died some time afterwir.14 The dievi werr buried at the bank of the river in the town, and for years afterwards, until the dirt taken mit in ligging the canal, covered their gruves a white Hoz on a frile was kopf Hunting over them.
After the Fel liver re-ervations were .laposril of by tresty, the Flower sal Squarrel parties abandoned thur village. on that river and eat delisted others in the Reserve, south of the We' ash, while the Putinwattomies that did not go West ranked up into Whichizin The Wire settled in Deer Creek and the Spirrel pirty on l'ipe Creek, about IM.IN.
Frath In's until they Frommeal West, the Moonis, so a people, grew utterly prestons and dissipated They played in value on property and quandder-) it with lavish amdifference Their div ination Imi to frequent quarrels and hottucides, so that their number decreased rapidly in the five year» preceding their removal
Suite of the entry in which they killel each other attracted the notice of the whites more than others. am at then the following
Shor-cot-wah a half brother of Ni-ren-zsh . Squirrel i, was s had Imhan. quarrel me and treacherous-what would be called song the whites a lespenale. He he killed several and wounded, alegend and threatened Th iny mil ers, and he was generally feireil
the Mother Tappa, who had several daughters and Ah-lin-de-ze- push. now the fanvad Haken farm, in Batter Ta samtup. "The r moins were , hep together, and the Indians required there is the time of the me arten. . about to be I+Intel. several Wiras, wrong them the Firsther. Shop-jan-In- rah. And Bun-com-uherat- anh, and Show cut-wah. Sieon-zyb, Shop-en- there drinking They ball -prot the a.gut in their carrier, in the marse of which the evt-was caught Mother l'et in by the hour and atrick her in the face with bis hat, benning if and coming the bowl to that freely This med . the ol! wasen mal for revenge and the till her .laughter to logo] ber a protil, heavily, to the was going to will shugen wale They landed the pastel and goes is in her flus was the Best morning after the night detsich sol the truth che vere wat is the lonne, sihing an I standing nul
als, who was generaly rill Hook Burcu a town of risk sol Istin-
mond and inquired what he was going tode She told how low she had
La 1 quotacan 'a that way, and he master die shop-es wat let tout home from unil phasing bartwere the . q'i hope and ihrait Afer laing -led, sh +-
will kill gone, Por this, I anding from a large Base hoefe Hap por pan sia took the ktofe, no wrong who slow ded sat ses to plan, says
to Wap-p-pin-sta. .. Hos I kill me my friend, you have to enough: I At Your trong . To winch Wap propone-sha the were I. " No, you are not the tal ha gelnaged the white into Show got a ih + hours The show st and of the target id Show da wah, a strømme of loveI sporting from the wind.
The Squirrel party to which " hop et wale belonged, shortened revenge.
Another ca-e, which wis byspied by the winter in i Diferent leht. HH.| Armel then harvar nud puligaates, wie In kithing. by P'rishna. a l'attentionnie, of the ce', and's kotlin of the flowers or Won parts. Hr lund based at Wooau Village, so I lead two wives of the Flowers party After the removal of the Sea- troms tol liver to the Boss ris, month of the Wabash, he and ine wives and the two half for shore of one of these women settled a Pagar Break, mese sime the Strawtown road choose the sun Their names were Whileh-honderd sh and Shop goste-la-ceash, and were mar- rad and had honors at the - une place Shapepan-bore oh s wife was noone ! art then aises went off a hunt some six mics aditharel of where they fixed, on battle Hear t'reek, mal camped. The men went hunting and the w wen remained in cump The parts of Vosne-costerquanh got love at the camp and started back toward howe She followed, and did unt mich it until it had nearly reached there. When she returned nrer to the camp quietly and in a curious position, her fonts of something ling wrun, were trouser, and the crypt quietly ust in the camp She found her -mer-in-law. srhom she loud tett but few hours Is fore well, sitting in a half-reclining pour- hoo. dopl, with a will turkey she had been picking, in her lap, she re- Irvatel in terras, got on her pay and went with all haste to the Wen Vil- laze, on Deer Creek, to give the alarm, A party at once stariel for the ramp They w ws enmr upon the imal of the Ininiers in a swainby thacker. They followed it but a short distance when they found ihn Imly of one of the In.hany, ahot Irom heinnd through the bark of the hen-), andthis Piny Shot, following the trial still further, they found the other, shut throngs the lady
The Inding, were furious and the whites turned out with then lo bunt the murderer but the search was ['ruitless Ir win ronederel a cruel mur- der, wad af l'esshwa hind hern found, the whites would have secondel the In liane in Inking summary vengeance
It is it justice, perhaps, to give l'eashwa's statement. He was no In- lian of great physical power, cool, and of dauntless courage. After the killing of the Indians, he coolly londed up the deer they had killed and brought theis home to his own calun, so that the meat should not be lost. He start secreted near his own calon, the Iuliany and white men ground it hunting hint. He was well-armed, and it is very dloulaful whether all the force in the party could have captured him-certainly not without his kill- inz several of them, which he lind fully determined to In The veron I might after the killing, he left Pipe Creek, eroserd the Wabash alive town went mund the head of the prairie, and reached the house of Ephraim Bear -. on the Inp of the high ground north of the prairie, a little north of John ITiner a honve Hlere he was conceslel in the muine through which the Mextro Jake runs for two days, the whites, as well as Indicar, hunting him in all d.Pectinny The think night, he started north, and it is only recently he het at his home neur South Bend. It. I Hearme and his brother Ephraim were his friends and it ", frum the former the relation of l'eschwi . Fer- mon it out unit. Pershows tall Bears the killing was done in self-i Sense; that kolonsquat was always making derlance, and that these two men bod arranged to kill him, and that he had sais antiquated then. During low stay at Ephraim Heures' he was not in the boxes excited or disturbed and seemed to have entire confidence in his own ability to take care of lumself against iny mble. In after years he went amung tho Minmis, hut they seemed willing to forget the past. "There is a mauroful sequel to law killing of these people, in perfect conennauce, however, with Indian custoin :
At his home, ou P'spe f'rrek, he left two children, by a former wife .
D'ottawationne woman. They were kept under strict surveillance Is the Weas, in hostages, and it was understood that if Penshown were not margit they would be sacrificed. The boy was got away, and, like his father, found refuge at Ephemm Bourse', but the girl required and shortly afterwards .hisappearel, and the legend in -- amul it is beheredl hy Pim-wy -- teminh, Mixen, now living in this neighborhood, to be true -- that the old woman of the Flowe . parry killed the girl by the most cruel methoel of cutting her to pieces This she, no doyle, regarded no a sacred duty, to avrogy the killing of her own people by the child & buther
The date of the foreging muplers is not remembered exactly, but it is somewhere nhout 1x11 ut 1412.
Among other enary of kalhuz, the following muy be mentionedl ;
Wah-pack-cometh was killed by Win-gon-sel. 1. 14 bajando ce-sti's wife, s Postawa tonno woman, killed Mah-qua-co-non-gah. 19 1-15 at the Usage Village. Prag-alsbin-gah killed Man-cest or Muncie, " he was called hy the wluter in ista. Koel-dream-e-ke sh who des I hat & few years ago, ut his home, bear the Mi-siemewie-a joureible, manly In- .list, atpl remarkthis for his grey wright, some four hundred[ pomandle- koled Blanc-en-com-wah, under slags becherous circumstances. They had been in town, drinking, mil on their way home wanegoere near the old home-kin, on the road between Peru and the Mini-inowa, thereport wish, who was quarrelone, wanted to light, Kool-ale sale + kesh said he Id not want to fight, was not meet and had modding to light almost Tv- ather marsted, at least to light white fashion, with the Ffice wn, to gratif- hus friend, Keel oh-une ke-sh commented, and they got ,.T their " ir-es They were tech umier the udflurner af Hqmar, an.l. before . poneurin :. nh-cum+kesh, inviting Im to drink While t'a latter hall the int.le ... how inenth, the other -truck at home with n kmf , cutting through his eny sal inflicting a were wound in his best Seller lam by the throat, crushed buon to the ground held him there with og - hand, win's was the wiler he reached into le vest-pocket, got out selon hrk-state, nprne ) Fir b;ule with his forth, niel then druck it into tis breast a treacherous friend Heregesled his how with the arte un. til he effectually curral the popilistic tham of all farther hajumtion " fight white man fashion
Kool-au- nurekreal, for years before bis death, had been falling away on tools, un' at the current of that event, he did not weigh mon thes, weight, he was arrested in town for being drunk and perhaps huy men wird hogy wren engaged in taking han before The Mayor. I . great erpenyth misliteed how to throw them off as though they were taking. . stout the times they got how to the aller, he saw esheaded and gave ap. s. T'ho entrauer in the Mayor s ntfra w .
ther hret ant outy ton an lwiaso bol bren thus brought to un es rinl fr
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Port of laughter at the rooms, and the speed most of the le mur wie en titely lost on the Indian
Lagosse tilfrag, a un glow of the elever bollood ins Itorleans, mond som hat- mel( short name trong alterwird by a white man wand dishe ththe win was sent to the Ts tour mi ary tor the offense Former planted self-defense, sind no light thought lettres was going to kill bitte
lives of the inseine, ml are introduced book to give an den Jean tilts of ufre of the causes of the riped leen paraf their numbers, Fran Blunt INpl until their removal Most, the Mounts seenei bent on their own 1 sb Tinina tion
A's rule, this violence was due to their Imlate of dissipation. Puring Bowl of those years, they had she means and the opportunity to get all the liquor they wanted, onif the y ning e-premity, when umler ite mutluonce, thenight they motort establish the'r claims to printnunl by killing sothe une ; wool for trivial causes, or no care at all, they shoot and stabbed each other Lo ileath
Tlw obl and well-known chief. White fawn, die this summer at Roam.kr. He was born on we near the site of nur cie. He was a noted was in the tribe, and at the time of his death had reached the great age of tuy seurs.
PHANCES SLOPE M. THE INDIAN CAPTIVE
The announcement, uver forty years nen that the wolon of She-pa-can- aab, or Deaf Man, the war chipt of Usage Village then nu ages som in bav- ing with her family at Dead Man's Voltage, on the Mississinews, almut nine Duties from Peru, wie the whist the oremen an lodian, lost & white woman who, in early childhood, lond Leon captured in Pennsylvania hy n bital of Delaware Indians, exciteIn thrilling interest at the true it was moule
The discovery was toole by I'mt. Ii. W' L'wing, wie was. nul tool been for years, an extensive trader with all the Iulian tribes that inhabited the northeastern part of the Stile.
The life of this cuplive from the time of her viulent alulurtion until the time that t'ul. Ewing learned that she was a white woman, wouldl furnish anaple material for a novel of quest alworking interest. The simple this, however, in relation to the discovery of the captive, the rit, from l'enn- sylvania, of her whatr relatives in her Itohan Isome, and the meidents of her life. given by herself, all as published in the Fru forester, at the time they transpired are reginlel as minte interesting, because more reliable, than a narrative or story that night have been written for the purpose of making money.
With the view therefore, of preserving and perpetuating the original publications relating to her ilivevery il the vivit of her relatives, and he- cause the event to which they no, de is particularly appropriate in a retullis- cent history of the enunty, the writer turnithey them to the best account of matter to winch they refer.
The letter of I'nl &wing was written to some gentleman in the neighbor- hood, in Pennsylvania, of where be supplied the relatives of Frances Slo- cum liveil, requesting him to leave the sims published there, that it might come to their notice From yothe entire, it was thrown usi le, and way only accidentally discovered some two years after it was written
COT .. LWING'4 L.PTTPH.
" LenANAPART, Jan. 20, 1832
" DEAB Sin : In the hope that some good] tiny result from it. Ilinve faken this means of giving to your fellow citizens, - ig the descendants of the early settlers of the Susquehanna, the Following information . and if there be any Dow hving whose name is slocum, to them I hope the following may be curu- municated through the publie priors of your tluce
" There is now living near this place, anding the Miaua tribe of Indians, an aged white woman, who, a few days ago, told me, whilst I belgel in the camp with her ane night, that she was taken away from her l'her's house. on or near the Suppeburns Kiser, when she was very young-may fre i five to eight years old, she thinks -by the Delaware Indians, who were then hostile to the whites She was her father & name was slocum, that he was a Quaker, rather shall in stature, stul ware " Inter, brovi-hriinmind hans, was of sandy hair and field completion, and much freckled ; de he lived about half a mile fortu a town where there was a fort ; that they lived su in wooden house two vieira high, and had a spring near the house Sie ware three Delawares camp to the bone in the dostane, when all were ghent but herself and perhaps two other smaller children, hur luber and boosters were absent making hay The Indians gurradI ler off. wol she was adopted Into a Family of [trlawaree, who rusel and trente I l'e ns their own r hill, They died aleauf forty years ago, somewhere in this. She was then mar- nel to a Miami, by whom the bel four children two of whom are now living berts d wachters, and who lives with shown. She va und noul feeble, now! thinks shr will not hive lung
" These consoleration- in Ineed for to give the prosent history of low self. which she norr wnubl Irfore, frarigt bee kindrol would comur ul Fitre ber away She has lived long wool ley po as an tului, and, last for her cular, wordt not be supported ut being styiling vier them with she is very respectable and wemirly, - cher ne I lameet the name is without popr ach. She says her father in I a large family -say right children in all-six " for rhum herself and the younger, as well as she was roclient and the inte not there are jer living many of their siew endsors, faut seems to think i'll of ber brothers amt spelers mount he heich nv -lin is spry u. I hererhf -h . far from the age of viglity No thank . she was taken prisoner Is fore the two lavt ware, which must worth the Revolutionary var, ya Hayne wor and the last war have been sites that and she has entirely bost hee wether tobar. and »penk- only lietus, wlarh I alus, understand, and she give ton & full history uf her-elf
" Her own I'mcionan name sho les forgotten, but way- her father a noter was strum, and that he wi- n tmaker. shr ale perallertat tled it wns which they loved I boss thought that, from they letter, you might eurer Pourthing to ler insritet in the wrappers of yinta vanntrs that enzbt possibly catch the eye of some of the sleeps adopte of the showun fonds where have kouwimize nf n girl lang surried off by the lofinns sumir arsinty yeara beer, i will carry thons where they will see the stapet of my letter blive sol
instuely, niwest the times of the Beslutmary war, hot forb & you can
dren, khun white they may mượt thuận sep q me lanye, those file has been
Sowe will ws see the freshem I have taken with you, as total stranger, ated hetweer mun in be, ar, with mark propert
· Voir sur hent servant,
The phosp letter, after being grown up by the weather is buste tule at
Date SarAt the suggestion of nos father and other relations I have ( treesse, lost a few days sites a louer written by som le , cath wonne in I im- maler, in th s Mate, upph arn no. of sleep on | inits ber interest Finir fom
* Steps will be taken immediately in investigate the matter, and we will enleser to do all in our power to restore a bed relance who has dien mots year in Indian bundlage . perfect and the steelesty with the es option , der ner de parted, we jest
" Your friend and servant,
" los. J SLUTTM
FRANCES SLOCUM
In the Pers Forester of September 20, 1%IT. there is an editorial article which ways : " A fow evenin + agn, Mr. Isine Siveum, a younger brother of Frances, arrived in town from Sandusky l'ounty, tibio, mind, in company with Janey T. Miller, of this plser interpre ter, procer led to the plus ut her re 4- ilence known by the apgetarian nf Deaf Van a Village, about mine nules a'mye Peru, on the Mississinern River,
" Mr Slocum, on the way, reit sta - i to his guile that if the wotoan | Fran- ces) was really big sister, he would recognize ber by a year upon the form- Ginger of her left hand, causel hy a blow fran s hammer upon an anvil. winle nt play with her brother belure phe was inken enptire, Int he knew not in what other way he should be able to convince either her or inmeelf of the relationship that sahsiste=] beteren then.
" Mr. Miller proces-led to the house alone, in ppler to prepare the old Indy fur the reception of her brother, bet found her onwilling to believe tb it such a thing could be. The brather rien entered the line, and rating upin the changeil appearance /f Feinces. involuntarily etf om J. * Biur-t that is this my sister " Then, groping her hand he drew her toward the light and heheld the year! the selontical wear which be bad describe I. He was then onhisbed, but Frances and will unwilling in believe My so- rum ber brother, Mr. Miller, at the request of Mir Nacui, Interrogated her in the Infos language ne who speaks or understands no other concerns. ing the sear upon be, hniger, vad the related the same or iry which ber Truthor hæl told him on the war , an I un.lls, before they separated, fran- Pes was Astished to ar kunwieder [mete in hr her own brottier, In pupresse ] un inclination to leave her wigwam to partake of the comforty of his ha-11- the wilderness Vr Sheun stated that h . hirscher dokopy and sister. M. Mary luwn will be here in a few din! . nul thund he will in ut the r arrival The parties referred to arisk a day time see the following loup -. written from here to their relatizes in l'eunsylsamia, ami published in tie Hunmay Repubhean will give the fuir, her history of F'r thee ..
Extract from a letter med Peru, Viam Ciaday, Indian, Seplender
. We arrived here on the 21st 14 The town is new and flourishing. witgoing on the north, -pir af In Babich, n htthe below the mmninth at the Missse inowa, which computers on from the with The last twenty five nul. was through the Magia Baserte, warte at any where embalatants Wp four I Reverse, mentioned in the heter of Me Hwang ated is prebut's satt- God that
erlinge with Me Miller, the interprety, tage love with Mr Bout, & balt- brunet Hust wie oftratedl nt f'ul. Johnson # wronel, in kontinky miel another gratisman Porling the Wybuch at this pinup, op pure I up the river to Honderd was blue gras- postura + wird morn held- interunited wheat under Sute of the oratives werte about their buysey other, were nl tobte pacliml ih Path hills, gathering entu their panties sintpling arblod grar the truls Whenever they have any work to don't ever on short a distance from their hommes they patch is tros pink and live there unul the work - door a few
P puir wole inntigh tur i carrica tr prix I jim Entering the hatte , nr Ht f+ unting li practical as cury courteous y, atd proche rod as all the spotaber
After taking lever of the t lot, on rtim re fel In Heit Man e kningr tim
be fores do seraled At some of which we found the bad seed of that you thigen to the ollite, alnie we arre interlurød In the rajdist , her tw istsughlete
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Intent fresh semoon, which they wished it rar as a token ut ou . 1.
rose and thanked then un manned the token, Mis ban sking ui e best thorning they all came is beachtest with us and the refuse ...
lest Mr. Miller, to shoot we are greatly sich to I want My Hint a fal sa Interpreters I wrote down the martin in the words of the the . r .- There are not many marching unulente in het les biet che apt bor du . Is mo lesty atul waleninity of their dejuatan nt, fortmed the most ants est. 2 group I over tohold. They are decidedly the mood restaurthis Is ity a the Button, and they are ther spry westby, having apaied of a h steel borses and many esttir and lige Com. Bonneur in the unis Inos w. . cultisdies roma with thex 12low He has a jose of osen am wagro, at 1 frequently taken beef atol other articies In mar et
" Mr Moller, who loves aften passed the might with theth, para they nite well They legen quite richly, and the old holy told or she Found siwy . Foi plenty and fived happily with the Imlisus Her husband and to of children were byrusl where she now here aml she mever cin i sk f having her present stunde I cannot help thinking where is right ;Un . family appears to be one of the most happy I ever saw The two de. they base returinnl In pre ni meseril timrs. They are sensible and wie tu very sociable ; but labor umler a great istben if it mit mirrenml .... language. The eldest prosentel lag se Sbram was hou gang of icesoir ' + wife, as he is to leave own. the commilence they record In ue sein . 1. complete, atul the more [ see of these rishilsen of the wilduroess, 1! . @1 1; I respect their character They base a natural juristenes and pull el: 2 that cannot be surpassed in the most juliche I eineles, but then ie mel Hora until they have every conmilence in thuen protil thetu . before ther .l e prevence of strangers, they are titopruts amb istont, They hust ju- tik-3 leave of us for home, it is 4 o'clock 1. M., but they never bury, ar - selves They Frequently rele home, Dihe gle. most of the wes i roupa the woods, with as much any temed as they would in the day true." The narrative of the life of Frances Sorun, as gives herself to the in- terpreter who went with her relatives, as above related, i- as tellus.
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