to their purchase of 1737, "a tract of land between the Blue mountain and the forks of the Susquehanna river." These

purchases were not made in open council with the representatives of the Iribes, but from a few of the chiefs, several of whom

when they signed the deed of but the purchasers, and especially the Connecticut conveyance;

were

a

in

upon their validity. convention of deputies from the several colonies was

company,

The

state of intoxication

continued

insisted

in session until July

nth.

A plan of union was

agreed to and referred to the several colonial assemblies,

and

a declaration adopted recommending that the Indians in alliance

with the English should be placed under a competent superintendency ; that forts should be built for the security of .each nation; that vessels of war should be placed on the lakes, and that

any further advances of the French should be prevented. The latter only was approved the union of the colonies failed. ;

Regarding the transfer of powers to a confederate organization as too much of an encroachment upon the liberties of the people, the colonial assemblies refused their assent, while the parent

Known as the Susquehanna company.

It was organized in

1753.

i,

Life and Times of Sir

468, etc.

Wm. Johnson,

THE INDIAN TRIBES

government rejected the plan on the ground that it favored the democratic at the expense of the aristocratic element.

The echo of Washington's guns on the Ohio meadows was speedily wafted to Canada, and scarcely had the last commis sioner departed from Albany before the forests became alive