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160. living on the opposite short. The young Man, who had agreeable to his Fathers instructions, imediately returned home after delivering the Message to one?, seeing them sometime after Midnight preparing to set off, for the purpose of executing their design & questioned them as to their intentions, and finding, that the supposition had been correct: he replied, "Your errand will fail, for the White man you are after, is no more there, but has returned to Pittsburg: On being afraid of this they bent their course another way.

    Within a fornight after the above had taken place, reports in succession, were brought to Shonbrun, that large parties were on their way to murder the Missionaries, and the fear of many of the Christian Indians at this place was so great, that they could not content themselves, unless they had placed these out of all Danger. The Missionaries altho unwilling to go, and not believing the danger as great, as represented, yet had to submit, and were in the dark of the Night taken to Gnadenhutten, from whence however the writer of this again returned in the morning, and there finding the Monsey Chief, Newalike, from Sandusky pressing those of his Tribe to leave the place, and were themselves, since "all living here" would soon be murdered if they remained in the "parts": he thought it his duty to inform the senior Missionary, Zeisberger at Lichtenau, 30 Miles distant, of the mischief that was intended here by the Monsey Chief and others from Sandusky;