The Delaware Indians, who live on the east branch of the Delaware river, near the head of it, have given us the strongest assurances that they will live and 50.

die with us."

Colonial History, vu,

" I assure

your excellency I never saw

better inclined to assist us than

Colonial History, vi, 361. they are." 5 This chief was actively employed as the principal deputy of the Five Nations in the treaties with the Lenapes and ShaHe died at Charleston, South wanoes.

Carolina, after attending the congress of Indian nations atScioto, in 1771. John

son speaks of him as a man of "superior capacity and fidelity."

Colonial History,

vni, 290, 300, etc.

tion

Proceedings of the Provincial Conven

of Neiu York, i, 339, 808;

ii,

340,

419, 423, etc.

Colonial History, vn, 512,

6n, etc.

476. The records of these conferences are scattered, some being found at Kingston, others in the Clinton and Johnson papers in the State Library, and others in the office of the secretary of state. Ib., vni,

ton.

a people

1HE INDIAN TRIBES

whom he had met carrying rum," and the justices promised the punishment of the offender. The justices, on their part, charged that the Indians

" had hired

negroes to fight against the Christ

Not a conference passed ians/' which the sachem denied. without a claim for lands taken from the Indians without com pensation,

many of them entirely unfounded, according to the

English interpretation of boundaries, but doubtless well founded in the absolute knowledge of the claimants, who, in their sales,