1700-1755.] ENCROACHMENT OF SETTLERS. 87 



been ordered, to the Susquehanna, where some 

 settled at Sharnokin, and some at Wyoming.^ From 

 an early period, the Indians had been annoyed by 

 the unlicensed intrusion of settlers upon their lauds, 

 and, in 1728, they had bitterly complained of the 

 wrong.^ The evil continued to increase. Many 

 families, chiefly German and Irish, began to cross 

 the Susquehanna and build their cabins along the 

 valleys of the Juniata and its tributary waters. The 

 Delawares sent frequent remonstrances from their 

 new abodes, and the Iroquois themselves made 

 angry complaints, declaring that the lands of the 

 Juniata were theirs by right of conquest, and that 

 they had given them to their cousins, the Delawares, 

 for hunting-grounds. Some 05*0 rts at redress were 

 made ; but the remedy proved inefl'ectual, and the 

 discontent of the Indians increased with every year. 

 The Shawanoes, with many of the Delawares, 

 removed westward, where for a time they would 

 be safe from intrusion ; and by the middle of the 

 century, the Delaware tribe was separated into two 

 divisions, one of which remained upon the Susque- 

 hanna, while the other, in conjunction with the 

 Shawanoes, dwelt on the waters of the Alleghany 

 and the Muskingum. 



But now the French began to push their advanced 

 posts into the valley of the Ohio. Unhappily for 

 the English interest, they found the irritated minds 

 of the Indians in a state which favored their efl'orts 

 at seduction, and held forth a flattering promise 



1 Chapman, Hist. Wyoming, 19. 



2 Colonial Records, III. 340. 



