OF THE PRINCIPAL CHIEFS AND HEAD-SACHEMS

OF THE DIFFERENT INDIAN TRIBES,

WITH

NARRATIVES AND CAPTIVITIES,

INCLUDING

THE DESTRUCTION OF SCHENECTADY, MURDER OF MISS M'CREA,

DESTRUCTION OF WYOMING, BATTLE OF THE THAMES AND

TIPPECANOE, BRADDOCK'S DEFEAT, GENERAL WAYNE'S

VICTORY AT MIAMI, LIFE OF LOGAN, MASSACRE

OF THE INDIANS AT LANCASTER, PA., &C.

by James Winner.

ALSO

AN APPENDIX,

CONTAINING THE STATISTICS OF THE POPULATION OF

THE U. STATES, AND AN INDIAN VOCABULARY.

ILLUSTRATED WITH EIGHT FINE ENGRAVINGS.

LANCASTER:

PUBLISHED BY G. HILLS & CO.

BRYSON, PEARSOL AND WIMER, PRINTERS.

ENTERED according to the act of Congress, in the year 1841, by

G. HILLS,

in the Clerk's office of the District Court for the Eastern District of Penn-
sylvania.

CONTENTS.

ILLUSTRATIONS.

FRONTISPIECE-Rescue of Capt. John Smith by Pocahontas. (pp. 80, 81.)
First Encounter with the Indians. (pp. 29, 30.)

Pumatacom, alias Philip. (p. 46.)

Interview of Pontiac with Major Rogers. (p. 155.)

General St. Clair's Defeat. (pp. 289, 290.)

Combat.

Harris's Escape. (p. 476.)

Massacre of the Conestoga Indians at Lancaster by the Paxton Boys. (pp.
489-493.)

ORIGIN OF THE AMERICAN INDIANS.

CHAPTER I.

PAGE

Ancient authors supposed to have referred to America in their

writings,

CHAPTER II.

Of modern theorists upon the peopling of America,

CHAPTER III.

Early settlements in North America,

INDIAN BIOGRAPHY.

CHAPTER I.

Synopsis of the New England Indians at the date of the Plymouth

settlement-Their first head-sachem known to the English, Massa-

soit-The first interview between him and the whites-His visit to

Plymouth, in 1621.

13

16

23

31

CHAPTER II.

Preparations for war between Philip and the colonies-Immediate

occasion of hostilities-His courage, dignity, independence, &c.—

Defence of his conduct,

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