where, agreeably to his request and the conditions of treaty, a town had been built for him and his followers by the govern

ment of Pennsylvania.

Here he

lived

not unmindful of his

long cherished object, and here he was burned to death on the night of the iQth of April, 1763, while asleep in his lodge.

" The concurrent testimony of his time agrees in representing him as a man of marked ability, a brave warrior, a sagacious counsellor and a patriot among his people. Although he was

governed by strong passions, and a slave of that degrading vice which was the bane of his race, he was not devoid of feeling, but susceptible of the gentler influences of our nature.

Numer

ous are the anecdotes extant, illustrating his love of humor, his ready wit, his quickness of apprehension and reply, his keen penetration, and his

and

artifice."

sarcastic

Stone adds

:

delight in exposing low cunning

" In

regard to the character

of

William Johnson were

TEEDYUSCUNG, the sympathies of Sir with his own people ; yet in his correspondence, while he labored somewhat to detract from the lofty pretensions of the Delaware

captain, the baronet conceded to him enough of talent, influence, his people, to give him a proud rank among the chieftains of his race. Certain it is, that TEEDYUSCUNG

and power among

did much to restore his nation to the rank of MEN."

NETAWATWEES, the successor of Teedyuscung, is spoken of in

the

says

: