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,

Red Hawk, to collect all

captives from the lower towns and

restore them in the spring.

On the 2yth of April, 1765, the pledges which had been of the given by the Senecas were redeemed by the surrender

Stone, in his

Life

and Times of Sir

Wm. Johnson, gives Bradstreet little eredit for his part in this transaction. a

ancroft t v, 210, 221.

OF HUDSON'S RIVER. Lenape king, Long Coat, and

his

principal

warrior,

Squash

Cutter, who in their turn became hostages for the Susquehanna clans. Captain Bull and two of his warriors were released, and the remaining prisoners,

who had been sent to New York for

in charge of the com security, were brought up and placed until the officer at clans, to whom Susquehanna manding Albany they belonged, should deliver up their prisoners according to

On the iQth of June the latter appeared with twentypromise.

five persons, including

even half-breeds, the children of inter

marriages with the Indians.

The exchange was made