Sullivan republican. [volume] (Laporte, Pa.) 1883-1896, 1895-08-16
Record Of the First white Men
On the North and West branch
Of the NusquclAamma.
By VIM. MEYLERT.
CCoNrrNuED FROM LAST WEEK.

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BY VIM. MEYLERT.
(CoNTINUED FROM LAST WEEK.
In following up the account given
by LIE Forte of the efforts of the
French to get into the good graces
of the Shawanese which proved
successful in not only making them
their allies in the Allegheny country
but also in getting colony OF them
located farther north, evidently to
aid them in keeping open connec-
ton from Canada to the Allegheny
river and having by this means
gained foot hold they next took
measures to regain the exclusive
trade of country. The Delawares
who also had colonies on the head
waters of the Ohio were driven by
force of the French to stop trading
with the English and following this
came the arrest of English traders
who were taken to Canada as pris-
oners, and although a treaty was
entered into between England and
France in l748, yet there was no
settlement of the boundaries OF
Pennsylvania and nothing pertinent
established.
The Susquehanna country was at
the time largely controlled by three
Indian chiefs, Teedyuscung king Of
the Delawares, and Paxinos a dis
tinguished chiefton of the Shawanese
and Shekalamy the Vice Roy of the
Iroquos, stationed at Shemoken, now
Subury. Teedyuscung whose head
quarters was at Wyoming was born
near Trenton in 1705 and when first
mentioned was holding the position
of chief of a colony OF his nation
| that had reluctantly been made by
| the Iroquois to leave the lands near
the Delaware and go to the Susque>
hanna. He was man of great force
| in the councils of his nation and up
on the death of Tadame was elected
king, He is described as lusty
raw boned man inclined to be haugh-
ty in his manner and desirous Of re-
spect, his great failing being that OF
fondness for rum. He became the
recognized leader of all the Indians
upon the upper Susquehanna, con-
seuuently very obnoxious to the
Iroquois. In his independant and
determined spirit he refused to sub
nit to their dictation. Having been
brought up in close contact with the
English and by native force had be-
come dreaded power in preventing
| the extension of their settlements.
Prior TO his day there had been
several treaties by the terms OF
which the Indians claimed they had
been deceived and the old contention
was taken up by Teedyusing and
| although the home at Wyoming
that they had been forced to accept
proved one of great advantage in
| consolidating the nation as it
brought them near the other tribes
OF the Delawares that had previously
settled on both sides of the Alle-
ghenys and nearer their hunting
ground on the Juniata. 1t in no
way removed the feeling of resent>
ment towards the English or their
allies-the Iroquola
OF Paxinos we have been unable
to learn but little and that to the
effect that he was the embodyment
of treachery and deceit character
| istic OF the Shawanese nation. The
name of Shekalamy is first found in
| 1877 as the representative of the
(roquois at Shamoken, his name oc-
curing III all important treaties from
that time until his death in l747
after which the provincial govern~
ment out of regard for the efficient
rendered during the twenty years
| of his administration obtained the
appointment of his son as his sue
cessor who seems to have filled the
place very acceptably for few years
but on tile renewal of the French
and English war and the Iroquois
nation being divided he according to
his own statement was half persuad
ed and half driven by parties OF In
dians coming to the Susquehanna
from the Ohio, to leave his post
which was subsequently taken
possession of by the provincial
government and at the site of which
was erected Fort Augusta.
The news of the defeat of Brad
dock in July Spread like wild