Teedyuscung

Teedyuscung's son Chief Bull conducted a raid on the Wyoming Valley that was part of a greater Indian uprising.

[2] The Lenape were driven out of the Trenton area by 1730 and Teedyuscung migrated with his wife and son to a piece of land located near the confluence of the Delaware and Lehigh Rivers in what is now Northampton County, Pennsylvania.

[1] After Teedyuscung moved from New Jersey to Pennsylvania, he came in contact with fellow Lenape who had not become accustomed to the ways of the colonial settlers.

His biographer, Anthony F. C. Wallace, wrote, Teedyuscung was of two minds, as far as white people were concerned, and what satisfied one offended the other.

He was driven to identify himself with the Europeans by an acute sense of his insecurity and inferiority as a member of the broken Delaware society.

[2] It was while living among other displaced Indians that Teedyuscung would declare himself "King of the Delawares" and assume a vital role in the negotiations between the Natives of Pennsylvania and the colonial government in Philadelphia.

Neither the Iroquois or Governor Robert Morris were able to provide aid the Lenape, who were attacked by French-allied Native Americans.

[2] This very Ground that is under me (striking it with his Foot) was my Land and Inheritance, and is taken from me by Fraud.At the 1758 negotiations for the Treaty of Easton, Teedyuscung claimed to represent the French allied Delaware Indians and the Six Nations of the Iroquois, the Shawnee, the Mahican, and the Christian Munsee.

[1] The competing interests of the Iroquois, Pennsylvania, Connecticut, and Virginia did not allow Teedyuscung and his people to live in the peace that was promised.

The colonists agreed to pull back from settlements in the Ohio country in exchange for peace east of the Appalachians.

[1] Wyolutimunk—also called Kuilutamen, Quilutimunk, and Quelootama[7][8]— was a village established by Teedyuscung in what is now Wyoming County, Pennsylvania in the Poconos region.

[9] The site was next settled in July 1773, by Benjamin Jones, and became the southern part of Falls Township of Wyoming County.

[10] A historical marker, located on Pennsylvania Route 92, across the Susquehanna River from the site, is the place where Teedyuscung met with Christian Frederick Post on May 17, 1760.

A map of the Six Nations land cessions in the 18th century
A plaque marking the approximate location of Teedyuscung’s death
Statue of Teedyuscung in Wissahickon Valley Park