but numbers of settlements had been made there previous to the cession, Attempts made since to form others on the Mississippi, and great numbers in defiance of the cession, or the orders of the government in consequence thereof, have orders,

since removed not only below the

hawa, but even the cession, and

Kanbeyond the limits of in a little time we may probably hear that they have crossed the Ohio wherever the lands invite them j for the body of these people are under no restraint, and pay as little regard to government as they do to title for their possessions."

vui, 460.

far

Johnson, Colonial History

OF HUDSON'S RIVER.

The Virginians did not cease to push their signed to remove. under into the Ohio pioneers valley, while the Pennsylvanians, Franklin, although acting with the consent of the tribes in in terest, were not the less violators of the spirit of the treaty.

The Virginians, however, openly disregarded the compact, and did not scruple to regard the Indians as legitimate prey for their rifles,

or to

a succession of outrages more cruel and known to savage warfare. Retaliation

commit

unprovqked than any

known as Cresap's war was inaugu The immediate causes of this war may be briefly stated.

followed, and what was rated.

In the spring of 1774, a party of land agents under the lead of Captain Michael Cresap, was sent out by the Virginians to locate and open up farms in the valley of the Ohio, near the