Return squaws

He sent a messenger to call on Captain Pipe on his way to Micheykapeecci, the old Delaware Indian woman who was taken at Beaver Creek and the young Munsey woman. The Americans were returning the two squaws.
"I hope you will use your interest to bring Captain Pipe and other wisemen here that we may renew and strengthen our ancient friendship," Morgan told White Eyes. His letter is in Carnegie Library, Pittsburgh, found in George Morgan's Letter Book.
Daniel Sullivan, writing to Col. John Cannon, from Fort Pitt March 20, 1778, says the Delawares "have always been and still are well-disposed for peace, unless the late unfortunate affair at Beaver Creek and the other murders committed at Fort Pitt last summer has soured their mind."
That the Americans were sorry for the Squaw Campaign is evident in a letter from Lt. Gov. Hamilton at Detroit to Gen. Carleton in April 1778.
Hamilton says, "No expedition of any consequence can be undertaken by the Virginians from Fort Pitt through the Delaware villages hitherward. They meditated some attempt against their villages upon French Creek and he had information from some Delawares that 600 men were to set out on that design April 8, but since the savages were forewarned, their scheme must fail."
"I have written Col. Bolton to acquaint him and Col. Butler of this and also that a party from Fort Pitt had fallen on a Delaware village and killed or carried off eight persons. But unfortunately for the rebels, (Hand's company), they have struck in the wrong place and have sent back two squaws who were prisoners to atone for their error."
This letter is from "Pioneer Collections; Report of the Pioneer and Historical Society of the state of Michigan, Vol. IX, Lansing; Thorp and Godfrey, State Printers and Binders, 1886."

Cites campaign

Col. Morgan brought the Squaw Campaign up again July 17, 1778, when he wrote to the Board of War advising an expedition to Detroit as the only remedy against the frequent incursions of the "Indians who infest the frontiers of Virginia." He felt possession of this post would induce all the Indian tribes to join the Americans "through fear or interest."
Morgan used the Squaw Campaign as a reason for not conducting an expedition into Indian country. He told the board Hand's company could find no hostile Indians, "but killed Captain Pipe's brother, a noted friend of the United States; two Indian squaws and a little boy, and took two squaws prisoners, all Delawares--who, in confidence of our friendship, were seated about 45 miles from Fort Pitt, making salt and hunting for skins. Whether this was from ignorance or design I pretend not to say."
"But the agent for Indian affairs foretold to the commanding officer and to others what really happened and, on that principle, publicly offered a reward of $100 for every prisoner who should be brought in.
Morgan counted only 300 hostile Indians in the area at that time.
By Dec. 21, 1778, Captain Pipe informed Capt. John Killbuck that he had nearly forgotten the Squaw Campaign.
His message reads: " I am greatly rejoiced to hear the message you sent me. You make mention in your speech to me of the loss of my relations who were killed last spring at the Salt Licks. I now inform you that I never thought of it until your mentioning it put me in mind of it."
"I now acquaint that my heart is good and that I never meant to quit the hold I have of the friendship subsisting between us. If you are desirous of speaking of the loss of my friends who were killed at the Salt Licks, there is a great many of my relatives at Cooshackung. Your speaking to them will answer the same as speaking to me. As the weather is very cold, I cannot tell you in how many nights I shall come to see you. But you may depend on it shall be soon."

Delawares still hostile

Hostile Delaware bands joined 180 Wyandots, Mingos and Munseys in besieging Fort Laurens in May 1779, still a consequence of the Squaw Campaign.
Col. Morgan, relating the incident to Congress, named the Delawares as John Montour, Che,cheas, Montour's brother, who was driven from Kuskusky when Hand's men killed the Delaware women and children, Poo,ques,an,geech,ca, a nephew of Captain Pipe, and Pey,mau,coo,seet.
Morgan said Poo,ques,an,geeh,ca was "a man well-disposed toward the United States, and never joined in the war until Gen. Hand's people killed his brother, sister, aunt and nephew. He even then continued quiet until being 'frighted off' by what passed at Fort Pitt last summer, he went and joined the Wyandots.
All the Indians were turned back by the Americans except five who went to war against the settlements in Ohio. These five killed one man, one child and took two children prisoners.
When the Indians went to Fort Laurens the second time, there were 40 Shawnees, 20 Mingoes, 20 Wyandots and the same four Delawares. The friendly Delawares prevailed on those hostile Indians to turn back, saving Fort Laurens for the Americans.
Most of the hostile Delawares then joined the British, with small war parties still forming to strike American settlements.
In the only set battle in their western campaign of terror, Captain Pipe's warriors defeated Col. Crawford who had taken part in the Squaw Campaign. They tortured him and burned him at the stake with the permission of Captain Pipe whose mother was wounded and brother killed.
After the war, Pipe advised the western Indian tribes to maintain friendly relations with the United States.