received into favor.--Allen labors.--Purchases Goods.--Stops the Indian
War.--His troubles with the Indians.--Marries a Squaw.--Is taken and
carried to Quebec.--Acquitted.--Goes to Philadelphia.--Returns to Genesee
with a Store of Goods, &c.--Goes to Farming.--Moves to Allen's
Creek.--Builds Mills at Rochester.--Drowns a Dutchman.--Marries a white
Wife.--Kills an old Man.--Gets a Concubine.--Moves to Mt. Morris.--
Marries a third Wife and gets another Concubine.--Receives a tract of
Land.--Sends his Children to other States, &c.--Disposes of his
Land.--Moves to Grand River, where he dies.--His Cruelties.

Sometime near the close of the revolutionary war, a white man by the name
of Ebenezer Allen, left his people in the state of Pennsylvania on the
account of some disaffection towards his countrymen, and came to the
Genesee river, to reside with the Indians. He tarried at Genishau a few
days, and came up to Gardow, where I then resided.--He was, apparently,
without any business that would support him; but be soon became acquainted
with my son Thomas, with whom he hunted for a long time, and made his home
with him at my house; winter came on, and he continued his stay.

When Allen came to my house, I had a white man living on my land, who had
a Nanticoke squaw for his wife, with whom he had lived very peaceably; for
he was a moderate man commonly, and she was a kind, gentle, cunning
creature. It so happened that he had no hay for his cattle; so that in the
winter he was obliged to drive them every day, perhaps half a mile from
his house, to let them feed on rushes, which in those days were so
numerous as to nearly cover the ground.

Allen having frequently seen the squaw in the fall, took the opportunity
when her husband was absent with his cows, daily to make her a visit; and
in return for his kindnesses she made and gave him a red cap finished and