that as the title was good, he never would allow Allen, nor his heirs, one
foot, or words to that effect. We returned to Allen the answer we had
received, and he, conceiving all further attempts to be useless, went
home.

He died at the Delaware town, on the river De Trench, in the year 1814 or
15, and left two white widows and one squaw, with a number of children, to
lament his loss.

By his last will he gave all his property to his last wife (Morilla,) and
her children, without providing in the least for the support of Lucy, or
any of the other members of his family. Lucy, soon after his death, went
with her children down the Ohio river, to receive assistance from her
friends.

In the revolutionary war, Allen was a tory, and by that means became
acquainted with our Indians, when they were in the neighborhood of his
native place, desolating the settlements on the Susquehannah. In those
predatory battles, he joined them, and (as I have often heard the Indians
say,) for cruelty was not exceeded by any of his Indian comrades!

At one time, when he was scouting with the Indians in the Susquehannah
country, he entered a house very early in the morning, where he found a
man, his wife, and one child, in bed. The man, as he entered the door,
instantly sprang on the floor, for the purpose of defending himself and
little family; but Allen dispatched him at one blow. He then cut off his
head and threw it bleeding into the bed with the terrified woman; took the
little infant from its mother's breast, and holding it by its legs, dashed
its head against the jamb, and left the unhappy widow and mother to mourn
alone over her murdered family. It has been said by some, that after he