to the third, or as Baker's falls, on the Hudson, and contained about seven huntion of those streams, it

is

now

called,

dred thousand acres of land.

of Johnson, u, 299.

Stone's Life

OF HUDSON'S RI7ER.

more immediately under the control of the English. The Mohawks had a blood alliance with Johnson the Oneidas and ;

Tuscaroras had

submitted

themselves

almost

entirely to

the

guidance of the English ministers who had located among them, and their every-day associations were of a different nature from those of their

more westward

brethren.

Practically, the

con

federacy was divided, although it still maintained the forms of While against the authorities of unity and some of its spirit.

New York the more eastern tribes had no special complaint, their education, from the days of Stuy vesant, had been adverse " to the Bostonians," and the feeling was strengthened by the

persistent determination of the Connecticut people to settle at

Wyoming in defiance of the treaty of 1768, by which the rights of the proprietaries of Pennsylvania were secured. They hated them, too, upon general principles growing out of the extirminating policy of Church and his followers, and came to sympathize with the Indians in the French alliance and to encourage their hostilities.

The great strength of the control which the English had over them, however, lay in the personal associations of the Mohawks with the Johnson family. To create this influence John son had become an Indian ; his legitimate children had grown

up with theirs, while those by his mistress, Molly Brant, eight in number, were " bone of their bone and flesh of their flesh." 1 Skillfully was this influence wielded by Johnson and the home government.