you now call upon us we are ready, and do declare, from the bottom of our hearts, that we will from this day make use of it To this determination against the French and their children." the Mabicans and the Schaticooks gave their assent. But nothing more than a petty warfare followed. In New England the English suffered some disasters, but in New York they escaped, with the exception of an engagement near Schenectady, July 2ist, 1748, the account of which is much con fused, and the destruction, about the same time, of the residence

of Mr. Keith, near Schaticook, and the slaughter of several of members of his family, by a company of St. Francis Inthe

A settlement on the Hudson in the

vicinity of the present village of Schuylerville,

from which the present name of

Saratoga is derived.

THE INDIAN TRIBES

dians.

On the part of the English, the Mobawhand Mah Jeans

appear to

have taken the field in some numbers, and to have At the Cedars they made death and captivity.

lost warriors by

a successful attack in the summer of 1 747, but at the Cascades

they were defeated with loss. Pending formidable aggressive movements against the French, the war was closed by the treaty of peace at Aix la Chapelle. The news of the conclusion of this treaty reached Governor

Clinton on the eve of the assemblage at Albany of a grand con ference, with the Six Nations and their allies.

Great effort had in point of