On his next expedition this note, tied to a war-club, was left in the house of a settler, whose entire family was murdered.

It was a short document, written with ferocious directness, as a kind of public challenge or taunt to the man whom he wrongly deemed to be the author of his misfortunes.

It ran as follows: "CAPTAIN CRESAP: "What did you kill my people on Yellow Creek for?
The white people killed my kin at Conestoga, a great while ago, and I thought nothing of that.

But you killed my kin again on Yellow Creek, and took my cousin prisoner.

Then I thought I must kill too; and I have been three times to war since; but the Indians are not angry, only myself.
"July 21, 1774.