<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.

Clair writes :

" A

jealousy sub-

OF HUDSON'S RIPER. late allies as having

" sold themselves to the devil." z

Failing the tribes to his purposes, he appealed to the Lenapes and Shawanoes to take the offensive, with himself and Jjis associates as followers. The latter accepted the belt, unite and wield

to

and began hostilities along the western border, then covering an

To restrain and punish the

extent of four hundred miles.

insurgents General Harmer was sent out, in the autumn of 1790, with a force of fifteen hundred men, but suffered disaster in a conflict near the junction of the St. Joseph and St. rivers ;

and General

St.

Mary

Clair, with an expedition for a similar

purpose, was defeated and severely punished in November of the following year. 2

Encouraged by these successes, the Lenapes and their allies resisted the overtures for peace which Captain Hendrik Aupaumut, the Mohican chief, conveyed to them, and, in council Miami Rapids, on the I3th of August, 1793, issued the de

at

offered for their