Esopus Indians, chieftaincies of, 94, 95 ; make peace with the Senecas, 68 ; first war with the Dutch, 1205 sa chems solicit peace, 128 ; Stuyvesant holds conference with, 129; Indians massacred at, 1335 renew hostilities, 135 j treaty of peace with (1660), 142; Stuyvesant sends chiefs into slavery, 138; demand renewal of treaty, 146 ; second war with, 147 ; treaty of peace with (1663), 155; treaty of, with the English, 163 } a

Great

Meadows, 21 0; compel Washington to evacuate Fort liberality of, to In Necessity, 211 dian allies, 211 5 surrender possession near

feats

147;

destroyed,

tribes in alliance

interpretation

village held in siege, 135 ;

hostilities at,

yield to the

171;

Iroquois,

buildings destroyed at, 125 5 new village established at, 128 5 second

135 ;

Washington

tion, 2825

peace established

Necessity,

Niagara, erected by the French, 282 $ headquarters of In dians and Tories in war of Revolu

Eelkins, Jacob, imprisons chief of the Se

of

99 j

erects, 211 5

wars, 1195 responsible for the Esopus wars, 134; surrender province to the English, 158

at,

Five Nations, see Iroquois Fletcher, Gov., 175; hastens to the re lief of the Mohawks, 175 Food and mode of preparation, 24 Fort Amsterdam held in siege by the In surrendered to the dians, 113, 123 English, 158; Nassau, construction

Dunmore, Gov., 2,57

quins,

Fantinekil, attack on, 277

scription of, 19

;

of Canada, 243 5 changes in relation with Indian tribes caused by with drawal of the, 2495 residents of the