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

with savage hordes let loose by the French upon the settlements.

On the 28th of August, the St. Francis Indians fell upon Schaticook and Hoosic killed several persons, destroyed houses, ;

barns and cattle, and swept off, either as prisoners or willing Bakersattendants, the remnant of Pennacooks residing there.

town, in

New Hampshire, was next visited, and there, as well

at other points, men

and women

fell

under the blows of .their

assailants, or were carried away captive. Even more disastrous results were inaugurated in Pennsyl

vania and the Ohio country when the Albany purchases became

known. The Senecas openly repudiated the contract. The were occupied by their lands which had been sold were theirs their children and allies, and they would not listen to its sale. ;

Their principal chief, who had been one of the intoxicated the Lenapes and grantors, was driven out from their cantons ;