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.

All that Teedyuscung had asked was granted ; the boundary lines were agreed to ; New Jersey paid the Mlnsis <i,ooo for the lands which

they claimed in that province, and received a concurrent deed from all the Lenape tribes ; an exchange of prisoners was agreed to,

and peace folded her wing over the

long harassed frontiers.

The divisions which existed among the

Six Nations, so ap of the stages controversy with France, in In April, 1757, the Senecas, creased as the war progressed.

parent in the early

as

The tribes represented were classified Mohawks, Oneidas, Onondagas,

the

Cayugas, Senecas, and Tuscaroras, comprising the Six Nations, the Nanticokes, Conoys, Tuteloes, and Chugnuts, of the Susquehannah j the Lenapes, Minsis,Shawanoes, Mahicans, and Wappingers of In the Wappingers will the Delaware. be recognized the families gathered at Fishkill in 1756, and in the Mahicans the clans of that nation whose removal to the

in

Delaware country had commenced

1730 (ante, p. 194). Not the deed to the Connecticut company. also