[Edward Manning Ruttenber (1872)] and Jjis associates as followers. The latter accepted the belt, and began hostilities along the western border, then covering an extent of four hundred miles. To restrain and punish the insurgents General Harmer was sent out, in the autumn of 1790, with a force of fifteen hundred men, but suffered disaster in a conflict near the junction of the St. Joseph and St. Mary rivers; and General St. Clair, with an expedition for a similar purpose, was defeated and severely punished in November of the following year.2 Encouraged by these successes, the Lenapes and their allies resisted the overtures for peace which Captain Hendrik Aupau-mut, the Mohican chief, conveyed to them, and, in council at Miami Rapids, on the I3th of August, 1793, issued the de claration, that to them the money which the United States offered for their lands was of no value, to most of them unknown; that no consideration whatever could induce them to sell that from which they obtained sustenance for their women and children; that if peace was desired, justice must be done, and to that end the money which was offered them should be divided among the settlers who had invaded their country and they be bidden to withdraw; that they never made any agree ment with the king by which their lands followed the fortunes of his wars, nor would they now make a treaty which denied to them the right to make " bargain or cession of lands when