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Tuscarawas Valley, in which they built homes and lived peace, ably and happily until the Revolutionary War broke out. They were again subjected to the same persecutions and this time it ended in that avvful tragedy known as tt Massacre of Guadenhutten where ninety Indian men, women and children fell unresisting be Little Osage where they built New Westfield and there they are to-day. The Munsee Indians of to day are, and have been since 1886, under act of Congress, citizens of the United States, voting and paying taxes on personal property. By their request special legislation was enacted whereby to the poor and distressed, and courtesy in their social intercourse. Pride, revenge and cruelty were vices common to the race.

Their hospitality is easily seen when one reads about the treaties made with the whites, especially the one made in 1862 between the Delawares and Wm. Penn on the banks of the Delaware River. neath the mallets and knives of (Vmerican soldiers. Seme es caped and fled with their miss they were permitted to draw their general fund that was to their credit in the United States Treasury and to receive patents to lands which in 1859, under treaty stipulations, were assigned to individual members of the ionaries to Michigan. They found out through messengers that there were rumors of a war between the Indians and the United tribe.

The main occupation of the Munsee Indians is farming and The Munsee Indians changed considerably under the preaching of Zeisberger They who but a shor; time before had been wild and revengeful became peaceable and industrious. They felled the great trees, cultivated the soil, built homes and mission chapels and settled in4o peaceable and, what they thought, permanent homes. But they did not remain long in this happy state for tbey were regarded with envy and suspicion by the meaner sort of colonial people. At different times during the French and Indian War, parties, composed of French soldiers and savage destroyed the frontier settlements and naturally there arose an intense hatred of all Indians. The Moravian missionaries and their followers stock-raising.

They all have homes and every one cultivates as much of his land as possible. In passing through that neighborhood a traveler would never know by the appearance of the farms that he was not among white people The residents are in every sense of the word loyal, intelligent American citizens. States ami s.j to keep out of danger they were compelled to seek refuge in Canada. In the meantime, the Moravian Mission Board at Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, had asked Congress to set apart some land fcr the Christian Indians. Accordingly three plats of four thousand acres each, were laid out in Ohio and they were invited to take speedy possession.

Some of the Indians preferred to remain in Canada while about thirty-three of them left for their new home. They lived here about twenty-five years when the United States made another treaty with them and promised them in lieu of their land an annrity of $400, or if they preferred removing to some other part of its domains, a new grant of 24,000 acres. he treaty was made April 1824. They left Ohio and went back to Canada, In 1837 nearly two-thirds of them emigrated to the YOU had to flee to the British trcops in Philadelphia for protection. A CAN request was sent to the New York government asking them to build an asylum for the Indians but it was refused.

Thus they GET Job Work DONE were driven from the Delaware to the Susquehanna, from the Susquehanna to the Alleghany and thence still farther west until they settled on a tract of land iar west. fiey spent two AT given them by the Wyandottes, including nearly one-half of the present state of Ohio. The Del awares who remained in the years at Stockbridge and then came to Kansas where tbey were joined by some of their brethren from Wisconsin. They located near to what is now Leavenworth city. After six years they moved about fifty miles southwest on THIS OFFICE Mississippi Valley ceded to them an additional tract of land.

They now owned a large part of the.