They were removed from Maryland and settled among the Oneidas until they lost their language,

when

they were sent to Conestoga. Their name would seem to have been derived from that of the chief under whose charge they were placed. Gallatin, 55. *

Proud ;

see also Life and Times

Wm. Johnson.

of Sir

THE INDIAN TRIBES

ensued, and the governor hid himself away in the house of Dr. The Quakers were alone equal to the occasion, Franklin.

and firmly resisted the intended bloodshed.

Persuaded to listen to

the voice of reason, the insurgents at length abandoned their murderous purposes and returned to their homes, and the be sieged Indians again sought rest in the wilderness.

The combination under Pontiac failed, but not from any lack of courage and determination on the part of the confederates. While maintaining the siege of Detroit, belts, which had been sent in all directions by the French, assured the tribes which had been in alliance with them that their power had departed.

The courier who took the belt to the north, offered peace to all the tribes wherever he passed ; and to Detroit, where he arrived on the last of October, he bore a

letter in the nature

of a pro

clamation, informing the inhabitants of the cession of Canada to England ; another addressed to twenty-five nations by name, and particularly to Pontiac, and a third to the commander, express ing a readiness to surrender to the English all the forts of the