Among the eastern Delawares, living on the other side of the Allegheny Mountains, the missionaries had succeeded in converting many; and it was chiefly through the western explorations of Frederick Post that his Church decided the Indians of the west could as well be taught to lead Christian lives.

The first attempt to convert the western redmen took place upon the upper Allegheny, where many Indians, including Allemewi, a blind Delaware chief, accepted the faith.

The mission decided, however, it would be best to move farther west, where the Delawares had migrated and were more numerous.
In April, 1770, more than ten years before, sixteen canoes, filled with converted Indians and missionaries, drifted down the Allegheny to Fort Pitt; thence down the Ohio to the Big Beaver; up that stream and far into the Ohio wilderness.
Upon a tributary of the Muskingong, called the Tuscarwawas, a settlement was founded.

Near and far the news was circulated.

Redmen from all tribes came flocking to the new colony.