decorated in the highest Indian style.

The husband had for some considerable length of time felt a degree of
jealousy that Allen was trespassing upon him with the consent of his
squaw; but when he saw Allen dressed in so fine an Indian cap, and found
that his dear Nanticoke had presented it to him, his doubts all left him,
and he became so violently enraged that he caught her by the hair of her
head, dragged her on the ground to my house, a distance of forty rods, and
threw her in at the door. Hiokatoo, my husband, exasperated at the sight
of so much inhumanity, hastily took down his old tomahawk, which for
awhile had lain idle, shook it over the cuckold's head, and bade him jogo
(i. e. go off.) The enraged husband, well knowing that he should feel a
blow if he waited to hear the order repeated, instantly retreated, and
went down the river to his cattle. We protected the poor Nanticoke woman,
and gave her victuals; and Allen sympathized with her in her misfortunes
till spring, when her husband came to her, acknowledged his former errors,
and that he had abused her without a cause, promised a reformation, and
she received him with every mark of a renewal of her affection. They went
home lovingly, and soon after removed to Niagara.

The same spring, Allen commenced working my flats, and continued to labor
there till after the peace in 1783. He then went to Philadelphia on some
business that detained him but a few days, and returned with a horse and
some dry goods, which he carried to a place that is now called Mount
Morris, where he built or bought a small house.

The British and Indians on the Niagara frontier, dissatisfied with the
treaty of peace, were determined, at all hazards, to continue their
depredations upon the white settlements which lay between them and Albany.
They actually made ready, and were about setting out on an expedition to