Manuscripts, xxiv, 186.

THE INDIAN TRIBES

The Mohawks^ Oneidas, Tuscaroras^ Onondagas and Cayugas held to their covenant with the English, but only as neutrals. Teedyuscung followed

their

Easton, in

May, 1762,

fully adjusted his

prietaries.

It

example, having,

in

a treaty

at

dispute with the pro The Senecas and the western

was his last treaty.

Lenapes were alike offended by his course, and determined to advance their ends by his destruction. Resorting to a mode of

warfare favorite among the Indians and especially calculated to serve a double purpose, a party of Senecas* ostensibly on a mis sion of peace, visited Wyoming in April, 1763, and after linger ing about for several days, in the night time treacherously set fire to the house of the unsuspecting king, which, with the

veteran himself, was burnt to ashes.

Remaining on the ground,

they inspired the followers of the murdered king with the belief that the work had been done by the Connecticut settlers. Stimulated by these representations, the infuriated Lenapes fell upon the unsuspecting whites, on the I4th, and massacred about cattle, rifled their stores, and at night torch to the applied dwellings and barns, and lighted up the val

thirty,

drove off their

ley with their destruction.

The fall of Teedyuscung accomplished its perpetrators had

designed,

the purpose which

the Lenapes were consolidated in

interest, and the alliances of the Senecas made complete.

The

governor of Pennsylvania sent troops to the scene of conflict, x

The

Indians went away much dissathe .,