History of the Indian Tribes of Hudson's River — Passage 128 (part 2)
[Edward Manning Ruttenber (1872)] Assembling his allied Lenape, Shawanoe and Mabican warriors at Nescopec, he marked out the plan of the campaign for the coming autumn and winter. Its operations were to be restricted to the ct walking purchase," within which it was resolved to chastise the English first,%y waging against them a war of extermination. From their lurk ing places in the fastnesses of the Great Swamp, the wronged warriors, led by Teedyuscung in person, sallied forth on their marauds, striking consternation into the hearts of the settlers. Falling upon the farms along the Susquehanna and Delaware, they fired the harvested grain and fodder in barns and in barracks, destroyed large numbers of cattle and horses, and killed thirteen persons. On the 24th of November the Moravian mission at