[ [120] Schoolcraft, Indian Tribes, Vol. I, p. 339.
[ [121] Brainerd, Life and Journal, p. 410.
[ [122] E. de Schweinitz, Life and Times of Zeisberger, p. 92.
[ [123] Mass. Hist. Soc. Colls., 4th series, Vol. IX, where Captain Young's journal is printed.
[ [124] Heckewelder MSS. in Amer Phil. Soc. Lib.
[ [125] An Account of the Conduct of the Society of Friends toward the Indian Tribes, p. 72 (London, 1844).
[ [126] The records of my own family furnish an example of this. My ancestor, William Brinton, arrived in the fall of 1684, and, with his wife and children, immediately took possession of a grant in the unbroken wilderness, about twenty miles from Philadelphia. A severe winter set in; their food supply was exhausted, and they would probably have perished but for the assistance of some neighboring lodges of Lenape, who provided them with food and shelter. It is, therefore, a debt of gratitude which I owe to this nation to gather its legends, its language, and its memories, so that they,
"in books recorded. May, like hoarded Household words, no more depart!"
[ [127] A Discourse on the Aborigines of the Valley of the Ohio, p. 25 (Cinn., 1838). I add the further testimony of John Brickell, who was a captive among them from 1791 to 1796. He speaks of them as fairly virtuous and temperate, and adds: "Honesty, bravery and hospitality are cardinal virtues among them." Narrative of Captivity among the Delaware Indians, in the American Pioneer, Vol. I, p. 48 (Cincinnati, 1844).
[ [128] Life and Journal, p. 381