oduced death. The other, instead of
pressing upon Wetsel, uttered a shrill yell, and exclaiming, "no catch
_him_, gun always loaded," returned to his party.

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[1] One hundred and eighty-six men, mounted, from the
Monongahela settlements. Early in March, 1782, they assembled
under David Williamson, colonel of one of the militia
battalions of Washington County, Pa., on the east bank of the
Ohio, a few miles below Steubenville. The water was high, the
weather cold and stormy, and there were no boats for crossing
over to Mingo Bottom. Many turned back, but about two
hundred succeeded in crossing. The expedition was not a
"private" affair, but was regularly authorized by the military
authority of Washington County; its destination was not the
Moravian settlements, but the hostile force, then supposed
to be on the Tuscarawas river. It seems to have generally
been understood on the border that the Moravian towns were
now deserted.--R. G. T.

[2] Contemporary accounts speak of a council of war, held in
the evening, at which this question was decided. But a small
majority voted for the butchery; Williamson himself was in the
minority. Dorsey Pentecost, writing from Pittsburg, May 8, 1782
(see _Penn. Arch._, ix., p. 540), says: "I have heard it
intimated that about thirty or forty only of the party gave
their consent or assisted in the catastrophe."--R. G. T.

[3] Lineback's Relation (_Penn. Arch._, ix., p. 525) says:
"In the morning, the militia chose two houses, which they
called the 'slaughter houses,' and then brought the Indians two
or three at a time, with ropes about their necks, and dragged
them into the slaughter houses where they knocked them down."
This accords with Heckewelder's _Narrative_, p. 320, which says
they were knocked down with a cooper's mallet. The victims
included those converts living at Salem, who had peaceably come
in to Gnadenhuetten with their captors; but those at New
Schoenbrunn had taken the alarm and fled.--R. G. T.

[4] Later authorities put the total number at
ninety--twenty-nine men, twenty-seven women, and thirty-four
children.--R. G. T.

[5] Salem, New Schoenbrunn and Gnadenhuetten were all
destroyed by fire. The whites returned home the following day,