and west of the Ohio and Alleghany rivers to

Kittaning ; thence in a direct

of the Susquehanna ; thence, following that stream through the Alleghanies, by the way of Burnett's Hills and the eastern branch of the Susquehanna and the Dela-

New York, to a line parallel

with Nonaderha creek, and thence north to Wood creek, east of Oneida lake was recognized as the territorial domain of the Six Nations, Lcnapes, Sha<wanocs y etc. Colonial History , vm, 135.

OF HUDSON'S RIPER.

*

The sum of

of thirteen hundred acres on the Alleghany river.

money was paid to

ten thousand dollars in goods and

the Six

and their possessions in the valley of the Hudson, as well as of the Delaware, were known to them

Nations and

their allies,

no more.

Not only was the policy referred to, with its resultant boun dary, developed by the war, but the position of the Indian na tions was changed. As the representative allies of the English,

the confederated tribes still had a name, but in almost all other respects their dominion and authority had the touch of the contending civilizations as

shriveled up under certainly as had that

of the nations which ha<l earlier fallen under its malign influence.

Nominally united when the war closed, and maintaining a recognized deference to the action and wishes of each other, as they had during its continuance, they were nevertheless prac tically divided.

Johnson

The Mohawks, dwelling in

the presence of

his own children swelling their ranks