On the 26th of February, a company of insurgents, under command of Captain Bull, was surprised and made prisoners in their encampment near the SusThe prisoners were removed to Johnson Hall, from quehanna.

whence Bull and

York and

thirteen of his warriors

lodged in

jail,

were sent to

New

and the remainder distributed among

the confederates. Another Iroquois party under Brant, burned the Lenape town of Kanestio and six other of their large villages lying on the head waters of the Susquehanna.

Seconding the efforts of Johnson, New Jersey and Connecti army of eleven hundred men to attack the

cut sent out an

Senecas^ while Pennsylvania

and Virginia contributed a greater

number to subdue the allies

in the

The Lenapes

Ohio valley.

fled from their burning villages to the Senecas^ and the latter,

fearing the destruction of their own towns, sent, early in April, a deputa

tion of four hundred of their chief men to Johnson Hall to sue for peace.

The overture was taken advantage of by Johnson The Senecas were required to

to gain important concessions.

stop hostilities and engage never again to make war upon the Johnson pays this tribute to the prowess of the Lenapes and their allies " The Ohio Indians begun on the frontiers of Pennsylvania, Virginia, and the communications to the posts, three of

sue

which, Presque Isle, Verrango and La After Boeuf, they took immediately.

s

:

laying waste all the frontiers they invested Fort Pitt, and reduced the garrison to

them through