[16] Loskiel’s History, Part I., ch. 10.
[17] The Iroquois were at that time a confederacy of only Five Nations; they became Six afterwards when they were joined by the Tuscaroras.
[18] Meaning, that the Five Nations would assist the white people in getting the country of their enemies, the Delawares, &c., to themselves.
[19] Loskiel, Part I., ch. 10.
[20] [The Indian converts attached to the Moravian Mission, whom Mr. Heckewelder invariably designates “Christian Indians” throughout his history. The Moravian Indians at this date were settled with their missionaries in three towns on the Tuscarawas branch of the Muskingum (now the Tuscarawas River), all within the limits of the present Tuscarawas County, Ohio.]
[21] Loskiel, Part III., ch. 9.
[22] The proper name is Wtáwas, the W is whistled.
[23] [In the summer of 1794, Gen. Wayne moved an army into the Ohio country, and on the 20th of August defeated the confederated Indians near the rapids of the Maumee, or Miami of the Lake. The result of this campaign was a treaty of peace, which was ratified at Greenville, the present county seat of Darke County, Ohio, in August of 1795, between the United States Government, represented by Wayne, and the Shawanese, Delawares, Wyandots, Ottawas, Potawattomies, Miamis and smaller tribes, at which treaty about two-thirds of the present state of Ohio was ceded to the United States.]
[24] [The missionary David Zeisberger, in a collection of Delaware vocables incorporated in “An Essay of a Delaware and English Spelling Book for the use of the Schools of the Christian Indians on the Muskingum River,” printed at Philadelphia, by Henry Miller, in 1776, defines Lennilenape, “Indians of the same nation.”]
[25] Colden.