Near Walden, Orange county, in the New York.

ate of

New York Manuscripts, LXXXII, 88;

Documentary

History of

New York,

H,

763,764.

Colonial History,

11,94/96, 100,113.

OF HUDSON'S RIVER.

your power to the Indians who are going down, and take care that no just cause of dissatisfaction be will give all assistance in

When Johnson returned to his residence on given to them." the gth of July, he found, as the fruit of this order, one hundred

and ninety-six " Mobicander or river Indians," men, women and children, awaiting his pleasure.

In the afternoon he clothed the

men " from head to foot, gave them ammunition, paint, etc., in !he presence of the Six Nations and the Shawanoes and Delaware

They were warmly greeted by their brethren who them many years before, and who were then present, as well as by the Nanticokes, in whose immediate vicinity they were assigned lands at Otsiningo. 3 Thither they went, and in

kings."

had

left

the subsequent assemblies of the tribes took their place as the allies of the Senecas, After serving Johnson faithfully for a time, and especially in his expedition against Crown point, they joined the fortunes of their brethren in the Lenape confederation

and lost their identity in their subsequent wars.

The peace which Johnson had made with Teedyuscung was In consenting to it the latter had defined his authority only partial. as limited to the territory which he specially represented. For himself, and those who acknowledged his authority, he had the Lenapes, Shawanoes and Mabicans of the Ohio promised