[Edward Manning Ruttenber (1872)] 3 Colonial History, vi, 938. ver to have been exceeded by any one." 4 Memorials Meravian Church, i, 193. (Hcckciu elders Narrative, 64). Pennsyl-6 " Shingask was his proper name, vania offered £200 for his scalp. His which interpreted is a bog meado<w. brother, Tamaque, or King Beaver, This man was the greatest Delaware was also a distinguished warrior and warrior of that time j were his war ex-chief. — Ib,, 61, 64. 28 220 THE INDIAN TRIBES were equal in determination, though perhaps unequal in strength, the western being the most formidable in numbers, in position, and in the direct aid which they could obtain from the French. The defeat of Braddock in July, was the signal for the aggressive action already outlined in general terms. The western. organization was first to strike. On the i6th of Oc tober they fell upon the whites of John Penn's creek, four miles south of Shamokin. Here they killed or took captive twenty-five persons; and it was only the twenty-third of the' month when all the settlements along the Susquehanna, between Shamokin and Hunter's mill, for a distance of fifty miles, were hopelessly deserted. Early in November the Great and Little Cove were attacked and the inhabitants either put to death or taken prisoners, and the settlements totally destroyed. These blows were promptly seconded by the eastern organ ization under Teedyuscung.