[Edward Manning Ruttenber (1872)] that when they were to sign the deed of them out of, and drove them from their sale he made them drunk and never paid settlement at Shamokin by crowding upon them the purchase money agreed upon, them, and by that means spoiled their He heard the Indians frequently com-hunting, and that the people of Minnisink plain of the fraud, and declare that they used to make the Indians always drunk would never be easy until they had satis-whenever they traded with them, and faction for their "lands." — Manuscripts of then cheated them out of their furs and Sir JVm. Johnson, xxiv, 14. Depuy was skins, also wronged them with regard to probably the agent employed to make the their lands." — Colonial History, vii, 332. purchase.. He was well known to the 218 THE INDIAN TRIBES as the wilderness of Pennsylvania, were filled with the threatening protestations of disfranchised proprietors animated by a common determination to hold possession of their ancient homes. Hitherto their protestations had been without favorable result. The authorities of Pennsylvania, to provide against evil conse quences, had appealed to the Five Nations to send delegates to a council at Philadelphia, when they had complained of the " walking " boundaries in 1742. The Iroquois delegates heard the complaint, as well as received private presents from the proprietaries. Subsidized by rum and trinkets, they commanded