[Edward Manning Ruttenber (1872)] It will give a present connections are too strong to hope great turn to the affairs of the present war for this success now. — Hardy to Lords of in North America, and I trust may, by a Trade, May 10, 1756. little time and proper management, en-2 Colonial History, vii, 151, 160. able us to withdraw the Delawares and 230 THE INDIAN TRIBES While the attention of Johnson was mainly devoted to the pacification of the more important Indian nations, the domestic clans of Minsis and Mahicans, who remained in the valley of the Hudson, were not neglected. To the former, proclamation was made in December, 1755, through the justices of Ulster, inviting them to remove from the " back settlements, where they might be taken for enemies and destroyed," to the " towns where they would be protected and assisted." Accepting these assurances, many of them came forward; but the promised pro tection and assistance was not, in all cases, extended. At Wile-mantown, in Ulster county,1 at the house of Charles Stevenson, where a number of them assembled, they were attacked, on the second of March, by a party of armed men, headed by Samuel Slaughter, and a man and his squaw killed. Moving from thence to a wigwam about a mile and a half distant, three In dians, two squaws and two children fell victims to Slaughter's misguided zeal.2 Those who reached Kingston, while spared hostile attack, were suffered to remain dependent upon such charity as was usually extended to their race.