JULY 28:

1642 Montreal Quebec Priest baptizes a 4 year old Algonquin boy.

1633 Quebec Quebec Flotilla of 140 Huron canoes arrives at Quebec.

1615 French River Ontario Samuel de Champlain arrives at Lake Huron on his way to Huronia.

July 28, 1756:  Today, Delaware Chief Teedyuscung, and 14 other chiefs, meet with Pennsylvania Governor Robert Morris, and other Pennsylvania leaders at Easton, Pennsylvania to discuss the Delaware uprising. Teedyuscung agrees to visit the warring members of the tribe, and to try to end the fighting.

July 28, 1862: Fort Bowie is established in the Apache Pass, in southeastern Arizona, by members of Brigadier General James Charlatan's California volunteers.

July 28, 1872: Colonel Ranald S. Mackenzie and twelve officers and 272 enlisted men begin an extended patrol of the area surrounding the Texas Panhandle. They include twenty Tonkawa scouts. They are looking for renegade Indians. One of their engagements is called the "Battle of the North Fork of the Red River." It happens on September 29, 1872
 
 

BACKGROUND:

Words Spoken:  Teedyuscung

"When you begin a great work you can't expect to finish it all at once; therefore do you and your brothers press on and let nothing discourage you till you have entirely finished what you have begun."

"Now, Brother, as for me, I assure you I will press on and the contrary winds may blow strong in my face, yet I will go forward and never turn back and continue to press forward until I have finished, and I would have you do the same."

"Though you may hear birds singing on this side and that side, you must not take notice of that, but hear me when I speak to you and take it to heart, for you may always depend that what I say shall be true."

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Teedyuscung, chief of ten tribes was respected warrior, diplomat. Called 'Gideon' by Christians, he negotiated treaties for his people. 12/30/99 By Georgie Pfauff Special to "The Morning Call"

Teedyuscung, chief of the Lenni Lenapi (sic) and nine other Delaware Indian tribes, was a name that struck fear into the hearts of the Moravian settlers at New Gnadenhuetten, now Weissport, from 1754 to 1755.

Teedyuscung was baptized at Gnadenhuetten by Bishop Spangenberg in 1750 and given the Christian Born in what is now Trenton in 1700, Teedyuscung was the son of ''Old Captain Harris'' who was a respected leader among the Indians of the area.

Teedyuscung was respected by the settlers because he spoke English.  The Walking Purchase of 1737 forced Teedyuscung and his followers across the Delaware River into the Lehigh Valley. The tribe settled first at the village of Pocopoco where the Aquashicola Creek empties into the Lehigh River near Lehigh Gap.

In 1742, Count Zizandorf purchased 120 acres of land near the confluence of the Mahoning Creek and the Lehigh River. The purchase included what is now Lehighton and Weissport and was the site of Gnadenhuetten.

A few years later, following the sale of more land by the Iroquois that included Pocopoco, Teedyuscung and his followers found safety with the Moravians at Lehighton. Within a year, more than 500 Indians were granted asylum and began adopting the Moravian religion and lifestyle.

In July 1753, more than 100 braves from the Wyoming tribe journeyed over the Warrior's Trail from the Susquehanna Valley to Lehighton. The visitors asked the Gnadenhuetten Indians to leave the mission and return with them to the Susquehanna Valley to help defend their land against the Connecticut settlers.

The majority of the Indians decided to remain at Gnadenhuetten. However, on April 24, 1754, Teedyuscung formed an alliance with the Mohican leader, Abraham. Together with 70 braves, the two chiefs left Gnadenhuetten for the Wyoming Valley.

Teedyuscung returned to Gnadenhuetten in July of 1754 as part of a group of Iroquois to deliver a message asking the remaining Indians to leave the Moravian settlement. The Gnadenhuetten Indians refused to leave.  With General Braddock's defeat at Fort Necessity, the French and their Indian allies began attacking English settlements all along the frontier.

On November 25, 1755, four days before the Gnadenhuetten Massacre, the Moravians were warned that an attack was imminent. However, the settlers took no precautions and eleven settlers died in the flaming massacre at Gnadenhuetten

On November 29, 1795:  Some historians believe Teedyuscung tried to warn the Moravian settlers at Gnadenhuetten of the impending attack. He was not among the Indians who attacked Gnadenhuetten.

However, in early January 1756, he led a scalping party into Minisink territory and returned to Wyoming on January 3 with prisoners and loot. After this foray, Teedyuscung laid down his hatchet for good. Wy oming was abandoned shortly thereafter and Teedyuscung led his tribe to Tioga. About the same time, Benjamin Franklin began construction of Fort Allen at New Gnadenhuetten and two years following his departure from the mission at Gnadenhuetten, Teedyuscung and 40 braves spent the night at Fort Allen. Recognized as chief of ten Delaware tribes, he was on his way to Easton to discuss a peace treaty with Governor Morris.

Between 1756 and 1763, Teedyuscung made Fort Allen a regular stopping point as he traveled from the Wyoming Valley to Philadelphia, Bethlehem and Easton to negotiate peace treaties on behalf of his people.

In 1763, war clouds hung over the Wyoming Valley as the Connecticut settlers began making forays into Indian territory.

Teedyuscung was burned to death while asleep in his Wyoming cabin on the night of April 19, 1763.

Both the Iroquois and the Delaware tribes blamed the Connecticut settlers for Teedyuscung's death.

A few months later, Captain Bell, Teedyuscung's son, avenged the killing by leading the Delaware Indians in an attack that wiped out the Connecticut settlers. Known as the Wyoming Massacre, this and other events led to the Pennimute and Pontiac Wars that flared sporadically along the Pennsylvania and New York frontiers.

However, no-one of Teedyuscung's ability stepped forward to negotiate a peace treaty. The wars dragged on for several years.
 

(Note:  Georgie Pauff is a Nesquehoning author and president of the Nesquehoning Historical Society.)

From:  http://webarchives.net/december_1999/teedyuscung.htm