[Pioneers of the Old Southwest by Constance Lindsay Skinner]@TWC D-Link bookPioneers of the Old Southwest CHAPTER VI 20/35
A man followed to dispatch her and her baby.
She held the child up to him pleading, with her last breath, that he would spare it because it was not Indian but "one of yours." The mother dead, the child was later sent to Gibson. Twelve Indians in all were killed. Meanwhile Croghan had persuaded the Iroquois to peace.
With the help of David Zeisberger, the Moravian missionary, and White Eyes, a Delaware chief, he and Dunmore had won over the Delaware warriors.
In the Cherokee councils, Oconostota demanded that the treaty of peace signed in 1761 be kept.
The Shawanoes, however, led by Cornstalk, were implacable; and they had as allies the Ottawas and Mingos, who had entered the council with them. A famous chief of the day and one of great influence over the Indians, and also among the white officials who dealt with Indian affairs, was Tachnech-dor-us, or Branching Oak of the Forest, a Mingo who had taken the name of Logan out of compliment to James Logan of Pennsylvania. Chief Logan had recently met with so much reproach from his red brothers for his loyalty to the whites that he had departed from the Mingo town at Yellow Creek.
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