their efforts, and would appoint a meeting at Otseningo, at which,

representation of the tribes, they would endeavor to exercise that influence in which they had hitherto failed.

by a

full

Pending

this

new mission, a delegation of friendly Lenapes

The conference, on the 2Qth of February. Oneida and Tuscarora embassadors opened the proceedings, and stated that the Shawanoes were on their way to Chugnut 3 where met Johnson

in

Thompson's Alienation, 77 j Memoirs Historical Society Pennsylvania, v, 98. Colonial History, vii, 44, 49.

On the south side of the Susquehanna

river,

opposite

Binghamton.

It

was a

very small portion of the Shawanoes that

were represented.

OF HUDSON'S RIVER.

they would live under the protection of the Six Nations; that the Lenapes had given the strongest assurances of peace, and that they earnestly desired that a fort might be erected for their pro tection. Johnson expressed his gratification at the disposition

attendance ; promised that a fort should be built for the protection of the Lenapes and that they should be

of the chiefs

in

cared for and supplied with arms and ammunition. Adam, on the part of the latter, expressed his appreciation of the kindness

which they had received, and promised never to forget it. The visit was of no significance touching the action of the Lenapes proper, but appears to have been gotten up to indicate that the Oneidas and Tuscaroras still had the influence which they claimed.

On the 2 ist of April, the embassadors of the second mission made their report.