Tuscarora delegation presents petition and eight wampum belts to Pennsylvania authorities

Two Tuscarora leaders, Terrutawanaren and Teonnottein, traveled from North Carolina to Conestoga in Pennsylvania. The leaders sought to dismantle the slave trade in Indigenous peoples which was occurring in North Carolina and also sought permission to relocate to Pennsylvania. They were endorsed in their petition by the Susquehannock or Conestoga, and a Shawnee. Their petition was denied, and they were told to seek from the colonial government of North Carolina a certificate from the government of their 'good behavior'. While they did try to get this paperwork, they were denied again. The belts were sent to the Five Nations (Haudenosaunee). These events forced them to stay in North Carolina where they were subject to terrorizing slave raiding and incessant settler encroachment- all of which conditions led to the outbreak of the Tuscarora War in 1711.