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DELAWARE COUNTY. 181 that the offenders were apprehended, or that any attempt was made to punish them. After waiting a reasonable time, the savages did what was quite natural on their part : they fell upon a couple of white men in the vicinity of Fort Pitt, and murdered them. A gentleman named Skinner, whose ancestors settled at Cushetunk nearly one hundred years ago, and whose possessions were extensive during the early days of the settle- ment of Cochecton, styles the murdered men Uncle Ross and Cousin Cyrus. By this we are given to understand that the vengeance of the Indians fell upon men who had never treated the natives unkindly. After this event, the fears of the pioneers gradually wore away ; and finally they continued to fish, and hunt, and culti- vate their lands without apprehension. 16