Bushy Run, near present-day Harrison City, Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania
Years active
1753-1763
Known for
Promoting peaceful coexistence with English colonists, smuggling letters for Robert Stobo and George Washington, later leading war parties during the French and Indian War
Keekyuscung (died 6 August 1763) aka Kickyuscung, Kaquehuston, Kikyuskung, Ketiuscund, Kekeuscund, or Ketiushund, was a Delaware (Lenape) chief. In the 1750s he took part in peace negotiations to end Lenape participation in the French and Indian War. In 1754 he briefly engaged in some spying and smuggled some letters into and out of Fort Duquesne for George Washington. He was sympathetic to the British for many years, but in 1763 he and his son Wolf sided with the French after a failed assassination attempt by Colonel Henry Bouquet. He is known for being one of the Native American leaders that attacked Colonel Bouquet's forces at the Battle of Bushy Run, where Keekyuscung was killed.
Keekyuscung (died 6 August 1763) aka Kickyuscung, Kaquehuston, Kikyuskung, Ketiuscund, Kekeuscund, or Ketiushund, was a Delaware (Lenape) chief. In the...
Belligerents Ohio Country natives Great Britain Commanders and leaders Guyasuta Keekyuscung † Henry Bouquet Strength 110–500 500 Casualties and losses 20–60 killed...
Delaware George may refer to: Keekyuscung, Lenape warrior and chief, killed at the Battle of Bushy Run, 1763 Nenatcheehunt, Lenape chief, died 1762 This...
Confusingly, Christian Frederick Post refers to both Nenatcheehunt and Keekyuscung as "Delaware George." It is not always clear which man is being identified...
troops under the command of Charles Philippe Aubry and 150 Lenape led by Keekyuscung,: 134 but the British, under the command of Colonel James Burd, repulsed...
for gunpowder and lead. The western Delaware warrior leaders Wolf and Keekyuscung had fewer than 100 warriors, so did not immediately attack the well-fortified...
these sketches to British forces by giving them to the Lenape warrior Keekyuscung who smuggled them out of the fort, however these papers were recovered...
the Lenape living to the south and east.: 112–113 The Lenape warrior Keekyuscung once told a Pennsylvania trader that Custaloga was half Mingo.: 96 : 157 ...
entire garrison, 440 troupes de la marine and 150 Delaware Indians led by Keekyuscung,: 251 under the command of Charles Phillip Aubry (not the "De Vitri"...
attack in Pennsylvania of Pontiac's Rebellion. On 28 May 1763,: 285, 390 Keekyuscung, his son Wolf, and two other Indians allegedly murdered and scalped Clapham...
they would now support the British. Pisquetomen accompanied Post and Keekyuscung to Philadelphia in July, 1758, to meet with Richard Peters and Deputy...
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