When the English under Bradstreet reached Niagara in Au There the Senecas met gust, he found no Indians in arms. delivered fourteen and asked that the Lenapes him, prisoners, up Skawanoes should be included in the treaty of April, 1 Johnson, who had arrived before Bradstreet, agreed to this on condition that those tribes delivered up their king and Squash

and

Cutter, their chief warrior, and the Senecas left with him two

of their chiefs as hostages for the fulfillment of the terms. With the Ottawas, Ckippewas, Hurons, and other tribes under Pontiac, peace was also made, although Pontiac did not appear.

The Indian country was made a part of the royal

dominions ;

its tribes were bound to aid the English troops, and in return were promised assistance and protection Indian murderers and plunderers were to be delivered up ; all captives were to be set free and restored, and the families of English settlers assured of welcome. Not less successful was the expedition under Boquet. A little below the mouth of Sandy creek, beneath a bower erected on the banks of the Tuscarawas, chiefs of the Senecas, the Le ;

The napes, the Shawanoes, and the Mohicans, invited peace. small and delivered up prisoners, eighteen Lenapes eighty-three sticks as pledges for the return of as many more.

tion of the White

At the junc

Woman and the Tuscarawas, in the centre

of the Indian villages, the Shawanoes accepted the terms of peace with dejected sullenness, and promised, by their orator,