Colonial History, vu, 313.

OF HUDSON'S RIPER.

may remember I was styled by my uncles, the Six Nations, a woman in former years, and had no hatchet in my hand, but a But now, brethren, here are some

pestle or hominy pounder.

of my uncles who are present to witness the truth of this.

As

had np tomahawk and my uncles were always styled men and had tomahawks in their hands, they gave me a tomahawk ; and

as.

my uncles have given me a tomahawk and appointed and make peace with a tomahawk in my hand, I

authorized me to

take that tomahawk and turn the edge of it against your enemies the French."

The papers which were transmitted to Johnson were imme diately sent by him to the lords of trade, accompanied by the statement that " some of the Six Nations were disgusted with

the deed which had been given at Albany, while others were conniving at the hostilities which were being committed, and that he conceived the "most effectual method of producing tran quillity,"

would be the voluntary and open surrender of that

deed, leaving the proprietaries to fix with the Indians, in the best manner they could, " the bounds for their settlements."

This opinion he had other reasons for entertaining. The Six Nations, whose consequence he never forgot to magnify, would " never be satisfied " unless the deeds of the Albany purchase were " surrendered up, and the claims founded thereon in a great mea " sure set aside ; the Lenapes were equally determined, testimony having been furnished him that they had been heard to declare " most " solemnly" that they would never leave off killing the English as long as there was one on their lands ; that they were determined to drive them all off their lands, naming Minnisink