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Some Friends and Indians

Some Friends and Indians SOME FRIENDS AND INDIANS.u During the years of Zeisberger's missionary efforts among the Lenape Indians,1 he says in his diary (1781-1808) begun after the removal (probably the fifth one) of his Gnadenhutten (Tents of Grace) from the Muskingum to Tuscarorwas County, Ohio, November 20, 1787, "A Quaker came here who lives in Chester [Pennsylvania] ; his father named Isaac Pile had been taken prisoner on the Wabash by Piankashaws 2 (1780)." Many mentions are also made of a Quaker, Abiah Parke,8 who traded * for many years with the Indians and " dealt uprightly with them." 1793. Six Quakers, William Savery,5 John Parrish, John Elliott, and Jacob Lindley, from Pennsylvania, and Joseph Moore and William Hartshorne, from New Jersey, accompanied the 1 D. G. Brinton, " The Lenape and their Legends." 2 The Piankashaws had been driven West. Three chiefs of this tribe ceded land in the Treaty of Grenville, 1795. See "A Mission to the Indians," Martha E. Tyson, Philadelphia, 1862. 3 This Abiah Parke was probably from Chester County, Pennsylvania. " He took sides with the British, and for one of his exploits led a party of the enemy by night to capture his uncle, Colonel http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Bulletin of Friends' Historical Society of Philadelphia Friends Historical Association

Some Friends and Indians

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SOME FRIENDS AND INDIANS.u During the years of Zeisberger's missionary efforts among the Lenape Indians,1 he says in his diary (1781-1808) begun after the removal (probably the fifth one) of his Gnadenhutten (Tents of Grace) from the Muskingum to Tuscarorwas County, Ohio, November 20, 1787, "A Quaker came here who lives in Chester [Pennsylvania] ; his father named Isaac Pile had been taken prisoner on the Wabash by Piankashaws 2 (1780)." Many mentions are also made of a Quaker, Abiah Parke,8 who traded * for many years with the Indians and " dealt uprightly with them." 1793. Six Quakers, William Savery,5 John Parrish, John Elliott, and Jacob Lindley, from Pennsylvania, and Joseph Moore and William Hartshorne, from New Jersey, accompanied the 1 D. G. Brinton, " The Lenape and their Legends." 2 The Piankashaws had been driven West. Three chiefs of this tribe ceded land in the Treaty of Grenville, 1795. See "A Mission to the Indians," Martha E. Tyson, Philadelphia, 1862. 3 This Abiah Parke was probably from Chester County, Pennsylvania. " He took sides with the British, and for one of his exploits led a party of the enemy by night to capture his uncle, Colonel

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Bulletin of Friends' Historical Society of Philadelphia – Friends Historical Association

Published: Apr 4, 1917

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