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

by con

ceding the right of the Indians to compensation for lands east of the line as far as the boundary of 1768.

At the negotiation of these treaties the fact became strikingly apparent that the confederate tribes were without agreement upon any line of policy, Brant openly denouncing many of his the fort.

The governor of Canada subsequently

assigned

Grand

river

them

about

forty

on the miles above

lands

<S/o|, u, 2.39. Niagara Falls. Great Britain, it will be remembered, refused to negotiate a commercial treaty with the United States, or to surrender certain forts within the northern boundary of the territory which had been relinIt was not until 1794, that a quished. treaty was

ratified covering

these points,

meanwhile the encouragement of the officers of the crown to the Indians was not disguised.

See

Johnson's

letter in

Stones Life of Brant, n, 267. a

St.