He proposed represented to make action binding. held at Lancaster in the spring, at be should meeting which all the matters in dispute should be definitely adjusted, properly

that a

and with that understanding the council closed.

But at the meeting which was then appointed, Teedyuscung was not present, 3 and it was not until the 2ist of July that the On its assemblage the Lenape adjourned council was held. king

presented

his

credentials

as

the

representative

of the

Lenapes, Minsis, Mabicans, Sbawanoes&n&Nanticokes, east of the

empowered by them and by the " to setSenecas^ Onondagas, Gayugas, Qneldas and Mohawks, Alleghany mountains,

fully

At the congress of 1754.

Life and Times of Sir Pfm. Johnson ;

Colonial History, vn, 260, etc.

The attendance of the Indians was prevented by the severity of the winter, the snow being too deep to permit them "

to travel.

,

OF HUDSON'S RIVER. tie all differences

the English."

subsisting

between them and

their brethren,

George Croghan represented Johnson, as super

intendent of Indian

affairs.

A patient, earnest and honest in

Surrounded by three hundred of his vestigation was had. counselled people by Paxinos, chief of the Shawanoes, and Abrachief the of Mahicans^ and advised by a delegation of ham^ one of whom, Charles Thompson, acted as his clerk, Quakers, ;

Teedyuscung conducted

his

case.

" The land is the cause of

our difference," said he, " and if I can now prevail with you, as

hope I shall, honestly to do what may be consistent with jus tice, then will I with a loud voice speak, and the nations shall