application to you last fall for protection, and that you sent them hither to endeavor a peace with us 5 also, that you have been pleased to send Christians along with them to their country to conduct them back again. We wish they were come

the Jesuits hoped that through his influto assist us against the common enemy."

ence all the New York Mohawks would B^odeventually be drawn to Canada." head, n, 618 ; Colonial History, ix, 467. River Indians returned from a residence with the Shawanoes, brought with them some Shawanoes who intended to settle with the Minnisinks, asking permis-

Answer of Five

latter

Nations, July 4, 1693,

Colonial History, iv, 43.

" It seems the heavens are

propitious

unto us, for this day we have the forerunners of the Shawanoes Farr Indians come to town with one of our Christians that was sent thither,

who gives

us an

OF HUDSON'S RIPER.

Captain Arent Schuyler visited the Minnisinks

another quarter.

in February, and there learned that the Shawanoes were expected

early in the ensuing summer.

This expectation was realized,

and the Minns of the Hudson as well as those of the Delaware received to their embrace "the second son of their grand father," after having given their pledge

of the king."

" to be faithful

subjects

At the time of the incorporation of the Shawanoes with the Minsis, the latter were at the lowest point in their history. Broken by their long wars with the Senecas and Mohawks, and scourged by the small pox, they were but a remnant indeed of that proud people who had once successfully disputed the sove