The tide of war then rolled along the frontiers of

New England, and the settlements at Oyster river in New Hampshire, and Haverhill in Massachusetts, were destroyed, Hatfield and Deerfield, on the Connecticut, shared the same fate. In 1696, Frontenac invaded the territory of the Onondagas, but without much success, 2 while Indians in detached bands warred for the respective powers with which In they were in alliance! the year following the war terminated in September, by the peace

of Ryswick, and the principal combatants withdrew. Colli sions and acts of hostility continued between the Iroquois and the allies of the French, however, until two years later. Go vernor Bellomont was exceedingly anxious to so order the ter

mination of these hostilities that the Iroquois should be placed in

acknowledged supremacy over their foes, and the French go vernor was not less mindful of his own and the interests of his The latter triumphed, and both parties laid down the allies. hatchet at his feet on terms of equality. Through a feeling from this in in and result, part part from the antago springing nisms which had been engendered by the part which they had taken in the war, the assembly of New York, in 1700, made a

law for hanging every Catholic priest that should come voluntarily into the province.

The part which the Makicans and Minsis of the Hudson took The alliance between in this war, is only incidentally stated. the Iroquois and the former, was of no little magnitude in the That alli opinion of the French, as has already been stated.