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

them the money which the United States lands was of no value, to most of them

unknown

no

that to

claration,

that

;

consideration

whatever

could

induce

them to sell that from which they obtained sustenance for their women and children that if peace was desired, justice must be done, and to that end the money which was offered them should ;

be divided

among the

who had invaded their

settlers

country

and they be bidden to withdraw that they never made any agree ment with the king by which their lands followed the fortunes ;

of his wars, nor would they now make a treaty which denied

"

to them the right to make bargain or cession of lands when " ever and to whomsoever they pleased ; peace with them could

be had only on the basis that the Ohio should remain the boundary line beyond which the white man should not come.