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

us to live upon, and

before the white people shall have them for nothing, we will sprinkle the leaves with blood, or die every man in the attempt."

Finding that the matter could no longer be delayed, a conference

was called at Fort Stanwix and the contemplated boundary line In the name of the king, Johnson took a deed for established. In addition to this the territory south and east of the Ohio. deed,

William Trent obtained

title

to

a tract

between the

Kenawha and Monongahela ; the proprietaries of Pennsylvania, one of the Wyoming lands, and George Croghan one confirma tory of two grants which the Indians had given him, in 1766, stories as make them believe the English have nothing so much at heart The as the extirpation of all savages. apparent design of the Six Nations is, to keep us at war with all savages but themselves, that they may be employed as