Later authorities put the total number at ninety––twenty-nine men, twenty-seven women, and thirty-four children.––R. G. T.
Salem, New Schönbrunn and Gnadenhütten were all destroyed by fire. The whites returned home the following day, with ninety-six scalps––ninety Moravians and six outlying Indians. It seems certain that a few hostiles were with the Moravians at the time of the massacre.––R. G. T.
David Williamson, as previously seen, was a colonel of militia in Washington County, Pa.; James Marshal, as county lieutenant of Washington, was his superior officer.––R. G. T.
The place of rendezvous was Mingo Bottom (the present Mingo Junction, O.), and the date May 20. It was the 24th before all were present. The volunteers numbered 480, of whom two-thirds were from Washington County; most of the others were from Fayette County, Pa., and a few from Ohio County, Va. In the vote for commander, William Crawford received 235, and Williamson 230. Four field majors were elected to rank in the order named: Williamson, Thomas Gaddis, John McClelland, and one Brinton. The standard modern authority for the details of this expedition, is Butterfield’s Crawford’s Expedition Against Sandusky (Cincinnati: Robert Clarke & Co., 1873).––R. G. T.
Col. David Williamson.––R. G. T.