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| | Tuscarawas County, Ohio History (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10) |
 | | Gelelemend and those of his councilors who still sided with the Americans, about thirty in number, retired to the site of the old capital, Gekelemukpechunk. |
 | | Gelelemend and his band, however, were glad to take advantage of a similar offer, and put themselves under the protection of the United States. |
 | | Some of them, indeed, like Gelelemend, remained faithful to the last; and the majority of them erred, not without premeditation, but through that want of stability which is everywhere characteristic of the aborigines, as soon as they meet the white man holding out the inebriating cup. |
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