Some powerful influence must have engendered this implacable hatred in these tribes, particularly in the Mingo and the Wyandot.
The war between the Indians and the settlers along the Pennsylvania and West Virginia borders was known as "Dunmore's War." The Hurons, Mingoes, and Delawares living in the "hunter's paradise" west of the Ohio River, seeing their land sold by the Iroquois and the occupation of their possessions by a daring band of white men naturally were filled with fierce anger and hate.

But remembering the past bloody war and British punishment they slowly moved backward toward the setting sun and kept the peace.

In 1774 a canoe filled with friendly Wyandots was attacked by white men below Yellow Creek and the Indians were killed.

Later the same year a party of men under Colonel Cresop made an unprovoked and dastardly massacre of the family and relatives of Logan.

This attack reflected the deepest dishonor upon all the white men concerned, and was the principal cause of the long and bloody war which followed.