History of the Indian Tribes of Hudson's River — Passage 133 (part 2)
[Edward Manning Ruttenber (1872)] panees who died in I747> after having ft 29 228 THE INDIAN TRIBES In the meantime, Pennsylvania declared war against the Lenapes and Shawanoes^ and sent out a force of three hundred men, under the charge of Benjamin Franklin, to build a fort at GnadenhutteR1 or Shamokin, and restore the fugitive Moravian Indians and their missionaries to their lands. Johnson doubted the policy of these movements, regarding it as the part of wis dom to have awaited the result of the negotiations which he had inaugurated, and which he believed only awaited the council which Jie had appointed at Onondaga for their consummation. That council assembled in June, but Teedyuscung did not attend, nor were his subordinate chiefs present in numbers suffi