History of the Lackawanna Valley
History of the Lackawanna Valley
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A day or two afterward, a scouting party of six persons were fired upon, a few miles farther down the river, by a body of savages lurking along the war-path ; two whites were wounded, and one fatally, when, springing into their canoe, they escaped doAvn the Susquehanna. Alarm spread throughout the entire settlement. Persons living along the Lackawanna at Capoose, apparently remote from danger reaching even the outer towns, either deserted their homes and sought protection in the forts, or fled ...to the parent State for greater security. The terror of the inhabitants, already wrought up to a fearful pitch, was still increased by an event simple in its character, yet tragic in its meaning. "Two Indians, formerly residents of Wyoming, and acquainted with the people, came down with their squaws 160 HISTORY OF THE on a visit, professing warm friendship ; but suspicions existed that they were spies, and directions were given that they should be carefully watched. An old compan- ion of one of them, with more than Indian cunning, pro- fessing his attachment to the natives, gave his visitor drink after drink of his favorite rum, when in the con- fidence and the fullness of his maudlin heart, he avowed that his people were prepared to cut ofi* the settlement ; the attack to be made soon, and that they had comedown to see and report how things were.
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A day or two afterward, a scouting party of six persons were fired upon, a few miles farther down the river, by a body of savages lurking along the war-path ; two whites were wounded, and one fatally, when, springing into their canoe, they escaped doAvn the Susquehanna. Alarm spread throughout the entire settlement. Persons living along the Lackawanna at Capoose, apparently remote from danger reaching even the outer towns, either deserted their homes and sought protection in the forts, or fled ...to the parent State for greater security. The terror of the inhabitants, already wrought up to a fearful pitch, was still increased by an event simple in its character, yet tragic in its meaning. "Two Indians, formerly residents of Wyoming, and acquainted with the people, came down with their squaws 160 HISTORY OF THE on a visit, professing warm friendship ; but suspicions existed that they were spies, and directions were given that they should be carefully watched. An old compan- ion of one of them, with more than Indian cunning, pro- fessing his attachment to the natives, gave his visitor drink after drink of his favorite rum, when in the con- fidence and the fullness of his maudlin heart, he avowed that his people were prepared to cut ofi* the settlement ; the attack to be made soon, and that they had comedown to see and report how things were.
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