Show lilteare Teased the I of 11nrira In Ibo lute winter of 1781 the hither lo friendly Delaware who bunted > 1 traded Dions Iho wealeea froatlrr 01 IVnn > iron ha and Virginia 1 proper look this manner at showing thU Ihtij had hays tho open foe f of lb Amert ran 1OI1a Harper MigAilne A V a band of warrior spread up and dowi the Allegheny for about fort mile and un ho 9th of Pebruary atlacko all the outlying s ttleni < mt < Tho In dlsns who delivered thin attack h41 t lone been on Intimate term with this Allegheny settlers who were accu tamed lo tee them In und about their hOIlce and as the aagoi acted with seeming frlendihlp to the lit IUD mmt they were able lo lake iho settler completely unawares so Ihat no of fictlve rclitanco wax mud Sum renters were killed and sniie copturrol Among the ruptured was n Ud name John Hrlckell who though nt llrst mat I Heated and forced to rim the gauntlet MB nftenvurdradopted Into the tribe and not released until Wu > nra vie lory After his adoption he WM treat Ml I with the utmost Undn w and eon reload II great liking for bis raptor admiring their rainy grad quail II erpeclnlly tbclr cournio and their kliJ fleas In their children bong alter ward hI wrote down his fxptrlnnre which possess a certain value as nlvln from the Indian standpoint an ceoun or some of the Incident of 1M fornt warfare of Ihe day The warrior who hid engaged In tnls raid on their former friends the l > Ht tier along the Alleghtny r t > ateJ twp or three day Journey Into the lhe wilderness lo an appointed plies when they found their fflmlll Oaf of Ibo dirty was wllh the Indian No roon r had the last ot the arrlor n rome with Ihelr scalpa and rMner r Ineluillng the boy lirlekdl this In of t their number dcllbenttlr trlo1 1 back to ritlsburg to pit laWMlimi i na friendly Indians and trade In a I fortnight they returned lades with grail of various kinds Iteludln rhlsky Borne of the InhabliMl 110 re from dlmiter ansprelnl that these In Ilin were only nuiqiiersalBg a friendly I and prepared lo ntls them t nit one of lute clltiens Imo d them of their danger and they esewped 1 Their pffrontery was aa remarkable sa lnflr inrlmY and duplicity They had amldenly attacked and injivaered eel tiers hy whom they had tuevet bn inrrnrd and with whom lay pro eefYHl an appearana of entire friendship 1 friend-ship up to the very rrjflmunt 01 the 55 Mull Then their hands I fed 1 emit the ilood I of their murderer Inlets the j y came boldly I Into Illtsburt aMK ll1 ° near neighbor of the mint murdered murder-ed Imrn and stale there rirnl day 10 trade pretending to IK aeflll i alllm of the while With auswl I 10 reaeheroil and no fermloiis II was a arm Impossibility for the borderers o llsilngulsh thus hostile from ike frit nd ly II they hit out blindly ntengo he blows that fell upjii tilt m from unknown hands llrulal iliMlh Jho fronllrrsnen often were they never tnploMl Ihe yslnmalle and oWlLnlo bd faith which was a flrorllUMpon rllh even the Lwt of Iho nil Irtben |