The natives at Captive Town are going hungry because of insufficient rations.

In February 1782, more than one hundred had returned to their old Moravian villages to harvest the crops and collect stored food they had been forced to leave behind.

The frontier war is still raging.

In early March 1782, the Lenape are surprised by a raiding party of one hundred and sixty Pennsylvania militia led by Lieutenant Colonel David Williamson.

The militia round up the Christian Lenape and accuse them of taking part in raids into Pennsylvania.

Although the Lenape deny the charges, the militia hold a council and vote to kill them.

Some militiamen, refusing to take part, leave the area.

After the Lenape are told of the militia's vote, they request time to prepare for death and spend the night praying and singing hymns.

They are held in two buildings, one for men and one for women and children.

The militia bring the Lenape to one of two "killing houses" the next morning, on March 8, one for men and the other for women and children.

The militia tie the natives, stun them with mallet blows to the head, and kill them with fatal scalping cuts.

In all, the militia murder and scalp twenty-eight men, twenty-nine women, and thirty-nine children.

Two native boys, one of whom had been scalped, will survive to tell of the massacre.

The militia members pile the bodies in the mission buildings and burn the village down.

They also burn the other abandoned Moravian villages.

The militia loot the villages prior to their burning.

The plunder, which needs eighty horses to carry, includes everything that the people had held: furs for trade, pewter, tea sets, and clothing.

A few years later, missionary Heckewelder will collect the remains of the Lenape and bury them in a mound on the southern side of the village.

No criminal charges are filed against the murderers, despite talk of bringing them to justice, and the conflict continues unabated.

The Lenape allies of the British seek revenge for the Gnadenhutten massacre.

When General George Washington hears about the massacre, he orders American soldiers to avoid being captured alive.

He fears what the hostile Lenape will do to captured Americans.

Washington's close friend William Crawford is captured while leading an expedition against Lenape at Upper Sandusky, Ohio.

Crawford had not been at Gnadenhutten but is killed in retaliation.

Captain Charles Bilderback had participated in the Gnadenhutten massacre and is a survivor of the June 1782 Crawford expedition.

Seven years later, in June 1789, he will be captured by hostile Lenape in Ohio, who kill him.

David Williamson, the officer who led the Gnadenhutten massacre, is also a survivor of the Crawford expedition.

In 1814, decades after the war, he will die in poverty.

The leader of the Home Guard at the time of the massacre was Captain John Hay, who on November 24 will led an attack on the Delaware.

In 1810, Tecumseh will remind future President William Henry Harrison, "You recall the time when the Jesus Indians of the Delawares lived near the Americans, and had confidence in their promises of friendship, and thought they were secure, yet the Americans murdered all the men, women, and children, even as they prayed to Jesus?"