Wyolutimunk
Exeter Township, Wyoming County, Pennsylvania
Marker Inscription
Across the river is the site of the Indian town. "King" Tedyuscung stopped here with Frederick Post, May 17, 1760, on his way to Tioga and the "great concourse in the West."
Erected by Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission
The Story
Across the river once stood a Native settlement in the Wyoming Valley homeland of the Delaware (Lenape) people. In May 1760, the Delaware leader Teedyuscung passed through here with the Moravian missionary Frederick Post, bound for Tioga and a great council in the west. Their journey came amid the tense diplomacy of the frontier during the era of the French and Indian War, when Delaware leaders sought to secure their people's place between contending empires.
Why it matters
The marker preserves the memory of the Delaware presence in the Wyoming Valley and of Teedyuscung, whose efforts to defend Indigenous land rights made him one of the most consequential Native diplomats of colonial Pennsylvania.
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Related people
- · Teedyuscung
- · Frederick Post
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