the Six Nations, Shawanoes, They are well acquainted with'the defenseless state of the inhabitoghwa, Tedabajhsika, Lenapes of the Ohio, and Benavissica, Manykypusson, Nanicksah, and Wabysequina, Shawanoes

and Delawares.

of the Ohio.

ants who live on the frontiers, and think

Colonial History, vn, 738.

these are

they will ever have it in their power to and plunder them, and never cease raising the jealousy of the Upper Nations

Colonel History, vn, 958. " Thoughts on Indian Bradstreet, in his

distress

Affairs," gives a different view of the He writes : " Of policy of the tribes.

against us, by propagating

Colonial

amongst them

THE INDIAN TRIBES

To appease their demands Johnson had proposed to them in 1765, to "make a line" which should be recognized alike by themselves and the English as a boundary beyond which neither should pass.

The proposition was accepted, but its execution

was delayed.

Meanwhile the tribes remained morose and jeal

Hostilities on ous and at times ready to take up the hatchet. the western border continued of frequent occurrence ; the diffi culties in

Pennsylvania, were kept alive by the constantly in Connecticut determined

creasing tide of European emigration. to occupy the

Wyoming valley, while the fanatics of the Canestogo massacre shot and scalped with unrelenting zeal the Indian hunters wherever opportunity offered. Smarting

under these aggressions, the Senecas, in 1768, by a large belt x " Sbawanoes Brethren, these lands are

said to the Lenapes and

yours as well as ours ;

:

God gave them to