[Edward Manning Ruttenber (1872)] by the Pennsylvania proprietaries. He was to go to Johnson's council-fire and explain what had been done, obtain his confirm ation and take advice as to the future. Several matters were left unadjusted, Teedyuscung declaring that he was not empow ered to consider them, and that the parties interested were not properly represented to make action binding. He proposed that a meeting should be held at Lancaster in the spring, at which all the matters in dispute should be definitely adjusted, and with that understanding the council closed. But at the meeting which was then appointed, Teedyuscung was not present,3 and it was not until the 2ist of July that the adjourned council was held. On its assemblage the Lenape king presented his credentials as the representative of the Lenapes, Minsis, Mabicans, Sbawanoes&n&Nanticokes, east of the Alleghany mountains, fully empowered by them and by the Senecas^ Onondagas, Gayugas, Qneldas and Mohawks, " to set-1 At the congress of 1754. 8The attendance of the Indians was 2 Life and Times of Sir Pfm. Johnson; prevented by the severity of the winter, Colonial History, vn, 260, etc. the snow being too deep to permit them to travel. " «,