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.

On

his return the tribes in interest opened communications with the

American government, suggested that a grand council should be called, and that, pending its assemblage, and determination, sur

veyors and settlers should be restrained from passing beyond the Ohio.

The government, anxious to prevent hostilities, replied by sending instructions to General St. Clair, then governor of the north-western territory, to inquire particularly into the temper

of the Indians, and if he found them hostile, to endeavor to hold as general a treaty with them as he could convene, and, if possible, satisfactorily extinguish their title to lands as far

westward

as

the

Mississippi.

Under these

instructions

St.

Clair concluded at Fort Harmer, on the ninth of January, 1789,

two separate treaties

;

the

first,

with the sachems of the Five

Nations, the Mohawks excepted ; the second, with the sachems

of the Lenapes, Wyandots, Ottawas, Ckippewas, and other west ern clans represented. These treaties recognized the boundary line of 1784, but at the same time modified that treaty