member of the Mohawk family, or was fair charmer who became his wife,

thither by the

herself the

daughter of a king.

HENDRIK became king.

In the right of his mother,

When about twenty years of age,

and for half a century or more subsequently, he represented his people in council and in camp, coming down to the present time

model of Indian courage and the embodiment of Indian His greatest service to the English appears to have eloquence. a

as

been performed in the battle under Johnson, at Lake George, in 1755, where he lost his life, and his greatest speech that

which he delivered before the conference at Albany in 1754.

That the reader may judge of its merits, without the trouble of reference, its most important parts are copied u Brethren return you all our grateful acknowledgments :

:

for renewing

We

and brightening the covenant chain.

This chain

of very great importance to our united nations, and all our allies ; we will therefore take it to Onondaga, where our

belt

is

and keep it so securely that Slither thunder nor lightning shall break it ; there we will consult over council-fire always burns,

*

The statement of Governor Hunter

Parton's Life of Jackson ; Hcadley's Second War ivitA England; Drake's Life of Tecumseh ; Montgomery^ Life of Harleaves no room (Colonial History, v, 358), to doubt that Hendrik was one of the

riton.

chiefs

named as parties to this expedition.

APPENDIX. it,

and as we have