Browsing around, the Senecas under Sayengeraghta (Old Smoke) had been active in major operations with the British earlier that same summer in New York. So while Senecas might have been involved its less likely.
Note that by that time there had been a long prior history of White/Indian killing in Pa, with attendant reprisals. If I were a Cop, the first place I'd look for those responsible would be among militant factions of the Delawares, then settled in eastern Ohio, who had both a motive and a long familiarity with the area in question.
As a sad postscript, six years later a party of Pennsylvanians pursued such a Delaware war party across the Ohio. As a taunt to the pursuers the Indians killed a woman captive they had taken and left her scalped, naked body impaled upright on a sapling along their trail , this woman being the young wife of one of the party.
The enraged posse then encountered a village of more than 100 unarmed Moravian Christian Delawares who had been attempting to remain neutral in the war and were exceedingly impoverished, having earned the hostility of both sides.
One of these Delawares had been given a dress by a relative in the war party, the dead woman's dress. That dress sealed their fate, the next morning the Pennsylvanians systematically clubbed to death more than 100 bound, unresisting men, women and children. An egregious act which raised outrage on both sides of the Frontier.
Birdwatcher
Last edited by Birdwatcher; 06/11/04.
