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to one another) "have come out on a similar expedition, and with the same Man who committed that attrocious Murder on our friends and relations; to do the same to us, they are all alike! – They want our Country from us, and know of no better way of obtaining it, than, by killing us first! For this very reason They killed the believing Indians, and our relations at Pittsburg!" They called aloud for the surviving Christian Indians to come forward and revenge on these Prisoners; but these ^ having removed their Savage relations, stepped forward in their lead? – The fire was kindled, and poor Crawford tied to the stake – Torturing had not begun, when it ^ occurred to him, that he had one particular Indian friend, by name, Wingenund – "Where is my friend Wingenund?" – he called out – "I wish to see him!" – This Indian Chief being sent for, an interesting, and somewhat affectionate conversation*, took place between them, yet without producing the effect, the Colonel haid [sic] faintly calculated on; he hoping, that both by the influence his Indian friend had with the Nation, and the intercession he would make in his behalf, his Life might be yet be saved, in which however he found himself grievously mistaken; for at this time; or, as the case then stood, it was not in the power of any Man, or even body of Men, to save the life of one, who had been of the party and doomed to suffer in Williamsons stead, who had escaped. He was told, by the exasperated crowd.

• see Heckewelder account of Indian Nations.

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