Col. Bouquet Defeats the Indians
Col. Henry Bouquet, a brave and sagacious officer, was sent with an army into the Indian territory to chastise them. In August, 1763, he defeated them . . . at Bushy Run, Pa., and soon after occupied Pittsburg [sic]. The following year he marched an army into the Ohio territory, to the Tuscarawas and Muskingum, and built a stockade near the present Bolivar in Tuscarawas County, Ohio. On October 17th, 1764, Colonel Bouquet met a number of Indian chiefs further south, probably in the edge of the Dover Plains, and at this spot was consummated an agreement which resulted in the restoration of all the white prisoners held by the Delawares and other tribes. From the Plains, near the present Strasburg, he continued his march to the forks of the Muskingum, the present Coshocton, where the treaty was ratified by the several tribes, and the last prisoners surrendered.
The Indians had become discouraged by their decisive defeat the previous year. They had been forsaken by their previous allies, the French, and had trouble in agreeing among themselves. So they had approached Col. Bouquet for a council and were very anxious for peace on any terms.
Taken from pp. 43, 44 of
Descendants of Jacob Hochstetler, by Rev. Harvey Hostetler, D.D., 1912. This portion was prepared by William F. Hochstetler.
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