Delaware History

Here is a paragraph from the article nad it mentions Delaware in Southern Indiana

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Wayne burned the alliance villages along the Maumee and destroyed the stored food supply to insure a hungry winter. Then he returned to Fort Greenville and waited. In August of 1795, the alliance chiefs signed the Fort Greenville Treaty agreeing to peace and ceding all of Ohio except the northwest corner. The treaty left the Delaware without land, and with the exception of Captain Pipe’s small band on the upper Sandusky, they relocated, with the permission of the Miami, to White River in east-central Indiana near the site of present-day Muncie. Some of their villages were located in southern Indiana near the Ohio River which placed them in the path of the next wave of American expansion. Indiana was never a happy place for the Delaware who felt like squatters on Miami land. After their defeat in the fight for Ohio, there was social disintegration, the men refused to farm, and alcohol abuse became a serious problem. In 1801 the Shawnee chief Blue Jacket tried to resurrect the alliance at Brownstown, but there was little enthusiasm for this. The Moravians opened a mission, but the Delaware had had enough of the whiteman’s religion for the moment. It closed in 1806.

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Was the “mission” the Moravians opened up the “Blackfoot Church” of Pike County? It was said the Blackfoot Church opened up in the latter part of the 18th century and this Moravian Mission closed in 1806, the beginning of the 19th century. Odds are, they are two separate churches, both in Southern Indiana. But this article speaks of many groups migrating to this area at that time.

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