Note 3 — CHRONICLES OF BORDER WARFARE (continued 6)

Lineback’s Relation (Penn. Arch., ix., p. 525) says: “In the morning, the militia chose two houses, which they called the ‘slaughter houses,’ and then brought the Indians two or three at a time, with ropes about their necks, and dragged them into the slaughter houses where they knocked them down.” This accords with Heckewelder’s Narrative, p. 320, which says they were knocked down with a cooper’s mallet. The victims included those converts living at Salem, who had peaceably come in to Gnadenhütten with their captors; but those at New Schönbrunn had taken the alarm and fled.––R. G. T.