[Edward Manning Ruttenber (1872)] But nothing more than a petty warfare followed. In New England the English suffered some disasters, but in New York they escaped, with the exception of an engagement near Sche-nectady, July 2ist, 1748, the account of which is much con fused, and the destruction, about the same time, of the residence of Mr. Keith, near Schaticook, and the slaughter of several of the members of his family, by a company of St. Francis In-1 A settlement on the Hudson in the lerville, from which the present name of vicinity of the present village of Schuy-Saratoga is derived. 206 THE INDIAN TRIBES dians.1 On the part of the English, the Mobawhand Mah Jeans appear to have taken the field in some numbers, and to have lost warriors by death and captivity. At the Cedars they made a successful attack in the summer of 1 747, but at the Cascades they were defeated with loss. Pending formidable aggressive movements against the French, the war was closed by the treaty of peace at Aix la Chapelle. The news of the conclusion of this treaty reached Governor Clinton on the eve of the assemblage at Albany of a grand con ference, with the Six Nations and their allies. Great effort had