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 ;

Skawanoes were urged to

hostilities.

The latter required but

encouragement. To them the famous had been a sore grievance, a shameless fraud.

little

"

walking treaty,"

That treaty was drawn by Penn in 1686, and conveyed an immense tract on the Delaware, the boundaries of which were described as beginning Neshamony creek thence

at a certain tree above the mouth of

\

by a course west-north-west to the Neshamony thence back into the woods "as far as a man could walk in a day and a ;

On

the z8th

French

Indians,

of August a party of to be of Bekancourt, a place between Quebeck and Montreal, made an incursion into this province and burnt the houses and barns full of at Hoosic, a place lying about grain eighteen or twenty miles east from that part of Hudson's river which is ten miles above Albany. They carried off with them the few remaining Indians at Schaticook, being between fifty and sixty in number, men, women and children, They had a little while before, when I was in Albany, assured me of their said