doubt not, direct such a supply as Captain Solothey shall think proper. mon, with part of these people was with The tribe suffered us in the year 1778.

desirous of returning home after

severely during that campaign, in a skirreceivwill, I

ing some compensation for the time, durmish with the enemy, in which they lost

ing which they have been with us, and after having made a visit to Philadelphia, I have thought it best to gratify them, not only on account of being agreeable to

their chief and several of their warriors,

have the honor to be Yours, etc.,

GEO. WASHINGTON."

OF HUDSON'S RIVER.

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or Grand river, under the protection of the crown, 1 prepared to renew the struggle whenever they should be bidden by those

whom they served

;

the Senecas relighted their council-fire, broken,

dispirited and divided.

New York was disposed to complete the work of disintegra tion and dispersion, which the war had developed,

by expelling the Senecas, Onondagas and Gayugas from all the country within its bounds which had not been ceded by them under the treaty of 1768; but congress adopted a more liberal policy, never theless one involving punishment. Commissioners on the part

of the United States met the representatives of the tribes at Fort Schuyler in October, 1784, prepared to negotiate a treaty based on a concession of territory.

The Mohawks were not

delay until the tribes on the the but commissioners would^ not

the Senecas asked

represented ; Ohio could be