[Edward Manning Ruttenber (1872)] Weisser writes : " ALLUMMAPEES would have resigned his crown before now, but as he had the keeping of the public treasure (that is to say of the council-bag), consisting of belts of wampum, for which he buys liquor, and has been drunk for these two or three years almost constantly, it is thought he won't die so long as there is one single wampum left in the bag." 2 TADAME was the successor of Allummapees. He held the crown until 1756, when he was " treacherously murdered, but by whom or for what cause," says Minor, " we find no record." 3 The probabilities are, however, that as he was active in the hostilities which had then been inaugurated with the English, his death was caused by some wretch of his own tribe for the purpose of obtaining the price which the governor of Pennsyl vania had offered for his scalp. TEEDYUSCUNG, the most distinguished of the modern Lenape kings, was the successor of Tadame. Major Parsons writes that he was " a lusty, raw-boned man, but haughty and very desirable of respect and command." Reichel, in his Memorials of the Moravian Church^ adds : " According to his own state-1 Shiktllimy was one of the viceregent 2 Memorials of the Moravian Church, Oneida chiefs, residing at Shamokin. i, 67. He died in 1748. 3 History of Wyoming.. 302 HUDSON RIPER INDIANS.