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

Colonial

Johnson says

:

History, n,

775)5 History, vn, 388, where " have been Brethren, you

(Documentary

acquainted that at the late treaty at Easton, in Pennsylvania, the proprietary agents, .in behalf of their constituents,

gave up their claims to the lands on the Ohio, which were sold to the proprietaries in 1754, at Albany, and here I have in my hands the instrument of release and surrender." It is said that a portion of the prisoners taken by the Lenapes had been to the Six Nations, but the given confederate as in

title is

probably used in this

many other cases when the designation should have been specific to have These priproperly recorded the fact. soners

were

returned

April 13, 1759.

at

Canajoharie,

THE INDIAN TRIBES

Qnondagas, and Gayngas, threw off the disguise of active friend ship which they had professed for the English, and sent a large " Our belt to Canada to make peace with the French. promise,"

" to remain firm to the

English was given with the war should be prosecuted vigorously ;" now that they saw the French victorious on every side, and the said they,