[Edward Manning Ruttenber (1872)] gress authorized the employment of In-Major Joseph Hawley, Turbot Francis, dians. Those who acted with the colo-Oliver Wolcott and Volkert P. Douw. nial forces prior to that time were enlisted The department included the Six Nations by the colonies in their independent capa-and all other tribes to the northward of city. them. 264 THE INDIAN TRIBES troops; we desire you to remain at home, and not join either side, but keep the hatchet buried deep. In the name and behalf of all our people, we ask and desire you to love peace and maintain it, and to love and sympathize with us in our trouble, that the path may be kept open with all our people and yours, to pass and repass without molestation." " You told us it was a family quarrel," said Abraham, the venerable chief of the upper Mohawk castle,1 in reply; " and that we should sit still, and mind nothing but peace. Our great man, Colonel Johnson, did the same at Oswego; he desired