Mingos

The Mingos are a war colony from the six nations; so are the Cohunnewagos.

Notes on the State of Virginia. 1826

"Hist! speak lower; for we know not what ears are open, and the Mingos are a quick-witted breed.

The Last of the Mohicans A Narrative of 1757 James Fenimore Cooper 1820

Word had arrived from Venango, where French Indian agent Joncaire Chabert had called in Mingos, Delawares, and other nations and advised them that the French had intended to go on to the Forks that fall, but the weather prevented it.

George Washington’s First War David A. Clary 2011

The Shawnees, Delawares, and his own Mingos ignored him, however.

George Washington’s First War David A. Clary 2011

The Half-King arrived that afternoon, and through his good offices about forty delegates from the Six Nations, Delawares, Shawnees, and Mingos assembled so Washington could “give them audience” and record it all in his journal.

George Washington’s First War David A. Clary 2011

He postponed a full exchange of speeches until Tanaghrisson and George Croghan arrived, and the Mingos sent him wampum and apologized for demanding an early council.20

George Washington’s First War David A. Clary 2011

What was “most severe upon us” was that “they were all our own Indians, Shawnesses, Delawares and Mingos.”

George Washington’s First War David A. Clary 2011

Washington led his forty men out behind Tanaghrisson and a dozen or so Mingos.

George Washington’s First War David A. Clary 2011

There were a few Mingos and Delawares, more Shawnees, but most were northerners: Ottawas, Mississaugas, Wyandots.

George Washington’s First War David A. Clary 2011

The other Mingos slaughtered the wounded, until the shocked Washington came to himself; he ordered the twenty-one surviving prisoners surrounded and herded them to safety.

George Washington’s First War David A. Clary 2011