[Edward Manning Ruttenber (1872)] Red Hawk, to collect all captives from the lower towns and restore them in the spring.2 On the 2yth of April, 1765, the pledges which had been given by the Senecas were redeemed by the surrender of the 1 Stone, in his Life and Times of Sir dit for his part in this transaction. Wm. Johnson, gives Bradstreet little ere-a £ancrofttv, 210, 221. OF HUDSON'S RIVER. 249 Lenape king, Long Coat, and his principal warrior, Squash Cutter, who in their turn became hostages for the Susquehanna clans. Captain Bull and two of his warriors were released, and the remaining prisoners, who had been sent to New York for security, were brought up and placed in charge of the com manding officer at Albany until the Susquehanna clans, to whom they belonged, should deliver up their prisoners according to promise. On the iQth of June the latter appeared with twenty-five persons, including even half-breeds, the children of inter marriages with the Indians. The exchange was made; the hostage chiefs departed, and the war of ten years was closed.1 The withdrawal of the French brought with it the necessity of treaties with the tribes that had been in alliance with them, as well as changes in the policy of the English. The task was a difficult one.