These blockhouses were joined on the south by those erected by New Jersey of which

the fort.

While the two spies returned to inform their party, a small company of soldiers, marching from New Jersey to Esopus, came along and stopped at the fort, They were scarcely seated before the Indians rushed in and fell on the men with their tomahawks. The soldiers fled to the chamber from which they shot at the Indians, and after a desperate fight compelled them to retire,

though several of

" From

one was known as Westfall's the lower neighborhood.

fort,

at

OF HUDSON'S RIVER. denunciations of the

Quakers

for having,

as

they

asserted,

assisted the Indians against the interests of the province.

The

papers forwarded by Johnson, however, were too plain a state ment of facts to sustain them in their position, and the order

was returned directing him to appoint a commission to make an examination of the case. Anticipating the action of this commission, the governor of Pennsylvania appointed a confer ence with the Indians at Easton, in October, 1758. Teedyus1 cung attended as the representative of thirteen nations, assumed the position which he had formerly occupied, and sustained

eloquence and dignity. Finding that nothing could be done unless the land question was satisfactorily dishimself with

*posed of, the proprietaries came forward and surrendered the confirmatory deed which had been received from the Six Nations Albany in* 1 754, and recognized 1:he right of the government

at

to arrange the boundaries of the lands included in the treaty of 1742. treaty was concluded, after a session of nineteen days.