The Tehotitachsae were an indigenous people

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 of North America

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 originally from Bradford County

Bradford County, Pennsylvania

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, Pennsylvania

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

Wyalusing, Pennsylvania

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History

Moravian Bishop John F. Cammerhoff 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

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, nor Delawares

Lenape

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

Cayuga nation

The Cayuga people was one of the five original constituents of the Haudenosaunee , a confederacy of American Indians in New York. The Cayuga homeland lay in the Finger Lakes region along Cayuga Lake, between their league neighbors, the Onondaga to the east and the Seneca to the west...

 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 Lenape

Lenape

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