[Edward Manning Ruttenber (1872)] fall of the British government upon this lages, 1 60 warriors j Oneidas, two villages, continent." — Bancroft. 250; Tuscaroras, one village, 140; Qnon-IUI understood and was told by them dagas, one large village, 1.50; Cayugas, (the Delawares) that the breaking out of one large village, 200 — total, 900 war-this war was occasioned by the Seneca riors. Indians who went about with a bloody Hostile Indians — Scnecas, tw« villages, belt and tomahawk to all the nations en-1050; Delawares, of the Ohio, 600; gaged m this trouble " — Manuscripts of Shaiuanoes, 300; Wyandots and Mohicans, Sir Wm. Johnson, vm, 14. near Fort Sandusky, 200 — total 2150 2 The following is Johnson's estimate: warriors. — Manuscripts, xxiv, 186. 31 244 THE INDIAN TRIBES The Mohawks^ Oneidas, Tuscaroras^ Onondagas and Cayugas held to their covenant with the English, but only as neutrals. Teedyuscung followed their example, having, in a treaty at Easton, in May, 1762, fully adjusted his dispute with the pro prietaries. It was his last treaty. The Senecas and the western Lenapes were alike offended by his course,1 and determined to advance their ends by his destruction. Resorting to a mode of warfare favorite among the Indians and especially calculated to serve a double purpose, a party of Senecas* ostensibly on a mis sion of peace, visited Wyoming in April, 1763, and after linger ing about for several days, in the night time treacherously set