in their possession,

white and black, should be delivered up.

The Oneidas and Tuscaroras, as well as all the tribes, were secured in the possession of the lands they were then occupying,

with power to sell and relinquish, but at the same time gave up all

claims to the territory not in absolute occupation^west of a mouth of the Oyonwayea creek, flowing

line beginning at the

into Lake Ontario four miles east of Niagara, thence southerly,

but preserving a line four miles east of the carrying path, to the

mouth of Tehoseroron

or

Buffalo

creek ; thence to the north

boundary of Pennsylvania ; thence south along the Pennsylvania line to the

Ohio.

Had the tribes been permitted to follow their own inclinations, this treaty would

perhaps have been conclusive; but the Eng-

At the close of the war the Mohawks

were temporarily residing en the American side of the Niagara river, in the vicinity of the old landing place above

THE INDIAN 7RIBES

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Canada, and especially the tories, professing to believe that the contest between the colonies and the mother country lish in

had been postponed, not determined, 1 disseminated discontent and hastened to revive in the hearts of their allies the sacredness of the boundary line of 1768, and the policy upon which it had been based. The Lenapes and Shawanoes were encouraged to

Corn planter was driven from power by Red Jacket. Brant assumed the task of organizing formidable and active

revolt ;

hostilities,

and for that purpose visited England in 1785.