The Tehotitachsae were an

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originally from Bradford County,

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. Their principal village, Gohontoto, was on the site of the present Borough of Wyalusing.

History

Moravian Bishop

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wrote of a visit in 1750, "Here, they tell me, was in early times an Indian town, traces of which are still noticeable, e. g. corn-pits, etc., inhabited by a distinct nation (neither Aquinoschioni, i. e. Iriquois, nor

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), who spoke a peculiar language and were called Tehotitachsae; against these the Five Nations warred, and rooted them out. The

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for a time held a number of them, but the Nation and their language are now exterminated and extinct." Remnants of the Tehotitachsae most likely were assimilated into the Cayuga. Their former territories in Pennsylvania later settled by the

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, who in 1752 established a settlement called M'chwihillusink on the site of Gohontoto. This would later become Wyalusing.

References

*https://web.archive.org/web/20070315021049/http://www.wyalusing.net/history/index.html Extinct languages Indigenous peoples of the Northeastern Woodlands Native American tribes in Pennsylvania Extinct languages of North America {{NorthAm-native-stub