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History of the Indian Tribes of Hudson's River — Passage 144

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[Edward Manning Ruttenber (1872)] cung attended as the representative of thirteen nations,1 assumed the position which he had formerly occupied, and sustained himself with eloquence and dignity. Finding that nothing could be done unless the land question was satisfactorily dis-*posed of, the proprietaries came forward and surrendered the confirmatory deed which had been received from the Six Nations at Albany in* 1 754,2 and recognized 1:he right of the government to arrange the boundaries of the lands included in the treaty of 1742. A treaty was concluded, after a session of nineteen days. All that Teedyuscung had asked was granted; the boundary lines were agreed to; New Jersey paid the Mlnsis <£i,ooo for the lands which they claimed in that province, and received a concurrent deed from all the Lenape tribes; an exchange of prisoners was agreed to,3 and peace folded her wing over the long harassed frontiers. The divisions which existed among the Six Nations, so ap parent in the early stages of the controversy with France, in creased as the war progressed. In April, 1757, the Senecas, 1 The tribes represented were classified acquainted that at the late treaty at as the Mohawks, Oneidas, Onondagas, Easton, in Pennsylvania, the proprietary Cayugas, Senecas, and Tuscaroras, com-agents,.in behalf of their constituents, prising the Six Nations, the Nanticokes, gave up their claims to the lands on the Conoys, Tuteloes, and Chugnuts, of the Ohio, which were sold to the proprie-