Del a wares

an Indian tribe, a branch of the Algonquin family, who, when the whites first came to the Delaware River, were found dwelling near it. Penn bcught much land of them. At first a peaceable tribe, they were largely under the control of the Five Nations. Later, they became warlike, and had a part in the war with Pontiac. In 1774 they received a signal defeat. After 1768 there were none east of the Alleghanies. The Christian Del a wares, converts of the Moravians, were largely ma acred by the Americans at Gnadenhiitten, near the close of the Revolutionary War. From Ohio the tribe emigrated to Mi ouri in 1818, in 1829 into Kansas, and in 1868 into the Indian Territory, having now become almost completely civilized.