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The Delaware Gazette
Wilmington, New Castle County, Delaware
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Report from St. Louis on a council among Delaware and Shawnee tribes near Cape Girardeau, where they banned alcohol, shifted to agriculture, established a court, tried four people, executed three men by tomahawk and burning, and acquitted one woman.
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St. Louis, Louisiana, August 16.
Having heard of the execution of several Delawares and Shawnees, at their towns near Cape Girardeau, we had the curiosity to enquire of Rogers, the Shawnee chief, as to the truth of the report.
Mr. Rogers says that Waabeleththeh, a Delaware, and Thathaway, a Shawnee chief, summoned him to attend a solemn council at their towns, that on his arrival there he found that a great revolution was about to take place, they had interdicted the use of intoxicating liquors and determined to abandon the chase, to raise stock and corn for food, and teach their women to spin and weave their cloths. They had established a court to try criminals, four persons were tried, three men were found guilty, and one woman acquitted. The condemned were led out of town to a thick woods, and tomahawked, they were then placed on an immense pile of wood and burnt to ashes; upwards of 100 men assisted at the execution.
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Towns Near Cape Girardeau
Event Date
August 16
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three men executed by tomahawk and burning; one woman acquitted; upwards of 100 men assisted.
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Shawnee chief Rogers reported on a council summoned by Delaware Waabeleththeh and Shawnee chief Thathaway, where tribes banned intoxicating liquors, shifted from hunting to raising stock and corn, taught women to spin and weave, established a court, tried four persons, found three men guilty, and executed them in the woods by tomahawking and burning on a wood pile.