Johnson accepted the proposition; he would hold a council at Onondaga twenty days hence, and charged the chiefs, then present with the duty

of extending the invitation.

About the same time an important change took place in the Lenape government. Tadame, their king, was treacherously murdered, but by whom is not stated, and Teedyuscung, that " lusty, raw-boned man," whose voice had already been heard in the wilderness, became his successor.

Enjoying the confi dence of his people, as well as possessing great native ability, he had already become a power to be both feared and conciliated.

For peace with the English he was ready, but it must be a peace which recognized the rights of his nation ; to no other would he listen, and spurned alike the threats and the blandish ments of those who would influence him to a different policy.

We have not met with a more specific

to

reference to this chief.

He appears

have been the successor of Allumpanees who died in I747>

after

having

Minor's HisMemorials Moravian

long out lived his activity. tory

Wyoming

Church^ i, 67. ft

THE INDIAN TRIBES

meantime, Pennsylvania declared war against the and Shawanoes^ and sent out a force of three hundred Lenapes In the

men, under the charge of Benjamin Franklin, to build a fort at GnadenhutteR 1 or Shamokin, and restore the fugitive Moravian Indians and their missionaries to their lands. the policy of these movements, regarding

it

Johnson doubted as the part of wis

dom to have awaited the result of the negotiations which he had inaugurated, and which he believed only awaited the council