The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1879-02-21

hitting resignedly to the fate of the cap
tured-expatriatio from her home, and
yielding to the ardent wooing of her lover,
consented to become his bride. The cele-
bration of the nuptials was in accordance
with the rites of the Mingoes, after which
she occupied with her husband wigwam
on the banks of the upper Deer Creek
There under the shadows of Mingo Hill, in
the quiet and patient performance of the
| duties of her position as wife and mother,
she passed the days of her allotted life
| Not indeed without feeling the weight of
the shadows that fell upon her heart in the
recollection of the happy scenes of child
hood and youth, and in the remembrance
of the loss of noble father, and the care
OF tender mother. These were but occa-
sional experiences The duties of life and
the sense of the affections of him she had
chosen, generally absorbed her thought.
How long Mingo remained on Deer Creek
alter the occupancy of the country by the
Whites is not known. The ancestors of some
of the present residents of upper Hartford
knew him to have been there several years
after they had settled in the neighborhood.
Among them Richard Beaver, the great
grandfather of the present George and
Richard Beaver. That after q time he fol
lowed his tribe westward is conjectured,
but if SO, not until after the death of Wa
tumpka, his captured bride. BY the side
Of the river, under the shadows of the trees,
was laid in deepest grief what was mortal
of Watumpka, the child of Piskaret the
Wicomico, and the wife of Mngo the
Massawomike. And it is not difficult, we
think, for the occupants of Mingo Park,
as they sit by the blazing fire in the winter
nights, to imagine that they hear the voice
of Mingo, who long since Joined Watump-
ka in the land of spirits, mingling with the
voices of the winds without. 1t is the voice
of the shade of the yet living and loving
Mingo which seeks to commune with the
shade of the still living and loving Wa
tumpka.
Honnis, venerable chief of the Wy
andots, said to an acquaintance of the
writer of this narrative, that the warriors
OF his nation were called upon to put each
one grain of corn into wooden tray that
would hold more than half a bushel, and
that before all had done so, the tray was
full and running over. The Mingoes were
a more numerous and powerful nation,
covering great tract of country, estimated
to have been twelve hundred miles in
length and seven hundred miles in BREADTH
Along the Susquehanna and its tributaries
among the forests of Deer Creek and in its
vallies were once many of these people,
There remained for while after their de-
pafture single representative of this once
mighty nation. He fingered because his
captive wife, the beautiful and loving Wa
tumpka, was alien to his race They had
killed her father Piskaret, the bonored
chief of the Wicomicos, and made her a
captive in strange land and among
strange people. Obedient to mysterious
quality of the human mind she became the
wife of Mingo, participating in his tolls
and sharing in his sympathies. Him alone
she loved, and for him and the children she
bore to him she lived, to the Mingoes alien
forever. A sentiment that led her to end
her life, and find her grave among the pale
faces, also the inexorable foes of her race.
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