It was built in Januarv

*7$6j

by

soon

Dismissing him, Johnson called the confederate

Benjamin

Franklin.

Pennsylvania Colonial Records, vu, 15.

There were only two young warriors of the Delaware nation present. Colonial History, vii, 146. Neither did the deputation

Delawares

come

till

near upon a conclusion.

vu, 153.

from the was

that meeting

Colonial History,

OF HUDSON'S RIPER. him what

chiefs to advise with it

was agreed that the

latter

further course to pursue, and

should

visit

Teedyuscung in his

tent and persuade him to declare his intentions at the session of the following day. this the king consented, and, at the

To

appointed time, stated that he could only agree for himself and his people at Tiyoga ; that his brethren on the Ohio must

determine

for

themselves, but for himself and those whose

representative he was, he promised to follow the example of the Six Nations a promise at that time of very doubtful import.

Paxinos, the Shawanoe king, made similar pledge, and Abraham, on behalf of the Mahicans at Otsiningo, united in the assurance of harmony. A formal declaration or covenant of peace and then was made, and the war dance celebrated. friendship Still Johnson was not altogether satisfied that his work was He knew that the Lenapes^ and their allies, aspired well done. to if they did not possess the independence which they claimed, and that so long as this was denied, peace would not be possible. The necessities of the English were great, 1 the determination of the Lenapes and their allies undisguised. Selfishness became the ally of justice