"Depend we are Wherever you go, we will it

We

be by your sides. Our bones shall die with yours. are determined never to be at peace with the red coats, while they are at variance with you.

We have one favor to beg. We

you would help us to establish a minister amongst us, that when our men are gone to war, our women and children may have the advantage of being instructed by should be glad

him.

if

If we are conquered, our lands go with yours ; but if will help us to recover our

you are victorious, we hope you

just rights."

Wherever the influence of the Alahlcans could

Their reach, it was exerted among their brethren of the west. clans at and their from the associates fugitive Oghkawaga, Esopus tribes, refused for a time to take up the hatchet against the colonists, and held the Tuscaroras to neutrality ; while

those among the Lenapes, east of the Alleghanies, as well as the

domestic Lenape clans, joined them in an earnest support of the patriots.

" war-cry,

At White Plains, in October, 1776, their united

Woach, Woach, Ha, Ha, Hach, Woach

"

!

rang out

as when of old they had disputed the supremacy of the Dutch, and their blood mingled with that of their chosen allies. 3

Active

hostilities

brought

sifting

time

to the Six Nations.

Notwithstanding the efforts of the Johnsons and the pleadings of Brant, they were not united in the alliance with the British, The Mabicans claimed several tracts