Negotiations were opened, and a treaty concluded. 2 But the war did not stop. Boone and Bullit, and other pioneers, provoked fresh hostilities and entailed

upon the colonists the animosities which had been engendered in all the long struggle for the possession of the

Ohio valley.

The French traders and priests who remained in the Indian country, moreover, contributed in no small degree to keep alive the hostile feeling which they had inculcated from the first hour

of their presence in the Ohio valley.

In the conflict which

they saw was coming, they also saw the hope of a restoration to France of the territory which had been lost. Holding their head-quarters in the Spanish possessions of Louisiana, they in1 The Mingots were a mixed people formed mainly by the intermarriage of Minsisy Senecas and Shaivanoes. They acknowledged the jurisdiction of, and were

ruled by chiefs of the Seneca nation.

T. Colonial History, vm, 517). states that the

"

(

N.

Brodhead

Mingoes were the Andastes, or Gandastogues, or Conestogas who lived at Conestoga creek, where they were

settled after their subjugation

by the Iroquois" (Gallatin, 55), but such does not appear to be the fact, except as they were

made so by the

intermarriages of which

Johnson speaks.

Cornstalk conducted the negotiations

on the part of the Indians.

Logan was

not present, but sent to the conference the famous speech which Jefferson preserved in his Notes on Virginia, and which has made the name of Logan a household word. Daniel Boone, Colonial History, vm, 395.