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
;
the
hostage chiefs departed, and the war of ten years was closed.
The withdrawal of the French brought with it the necessity of treaties with the tribes that had been in alliance with them, as well as changes in the policy of the English. The task was a difficult one. The attachment of the northern and western
Indians to the French was strong ; the grievances of the Senecas
and their Lenape allies were aggravated by the peace to which they had been compelled and in which they had been forced to
concede that their lands were a part of the royal dominions. In regard to their territorial possessions, their decision in 1748 had grown into a positive policy, which the English were obliged to recognize on the very threshold of negotiations, as well as the o treaties, submissions, wide-spread influence which it exerted.
and cessions, which recognized any other fact than that they that they had independent lands, which were a free people their ancient possessions they would give no attention, while to proffered protection they replied that they wanted none