History of the Indian Tribes of Hudson's River — Passage 142 (part 2)
[Edward Manning Ruttenber (1872)] my uncles have given me a tomahawk and appointed and authorized me to make peace with a tomahawk in my hand, I take that tomahawk and turn the edge of it against your enemies the French." The papers which were transmitted to Johnson were imme diately sent by him to the lords of trade, accompanied by the statement that " some of the Six Nations were disgusted with the deed which had been given at Albany, while others were conniving at the hostilities which were being committed, and that he conceived the "most effectual method of producing tran quillity," would be the voluntary and open surrender of that deed, leaving the proprietaries to fix with the Indians, in the best manner they could, " the bounds for their settlements." This opinion he had other reasons for entertaining. The Six