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able burden, yet care was taken that they should depart in good humor, 

 and that their leaders, Scarroyady and Montour, should be amply re- 

 warded for their services. No opportunity was lost by the Assembly to 

 propitiate the Indians. Cayenquiloquoas, an influential chief among the 

 Six Nations, had placed two sons at Philadelphia to be educated, who 

 Avere hitherto supported at the joint expense of the Province and Propri- 

 etaries. But, the latter refusing further to contribute, the former assumed 

 the whole charge. The services of Montour and Scarroyady merited the 

 acknowledgments of the whites. At the risk of their lives, they had, in 

 December, visited the several tribes of Indians seated along the Susque- 

 hannah, with a view to persuade them from assuming arms; and thence 

 proceeded, as the deputies of the Six Nation Indians residing in Pennsyl- 

 vania, to the great Council at Onondago, to represent the conduct of the 

 Delawares and Shawanese to the confederated nations. In consequence 

 of their remonstrances, the Council despatched a party of their warriors, 

 consisting of deputies from each of the Six Nations, to the Susquehannah, 

 to enjoin the Delawares and Shawanese to desist from hostilities; and, in 

 case of their refusal, to declare war against them in the name of the Six 

 Nations. 



Soon after the Governor received information that Sir William John- 

 son, through the mediation of the Six Nations, had succeeded in disposing 

 the Shawanese and Delawares to an accommodation;^ and that these 

 tribes had promised to refrain from further hostilities. On the part of the 

 Province, the Governor suspended the war against the Indians, by proc- 

 lamation, which he sent to the Indians at Diogo, on the Susquehannah, 

 and the Assembly cheerfully supplied the means for holding a treaty of 

 pacification; and earnestly pressed upon the Governor, for his sanction, 

 a bill for regulating the trade and intercourse with the Indians, by which 

 they expected to allay whatever resentment the Indians might still feel, 

 and to provide against future discontents. 



The return of the Shawanese and Delawares to pacific dispositions Avas 

 greatly promoted by the conduct of the principal Quakers. Israel Pem- 

 berton and others invited some friendly Indians to their tables, and, in a 

 free and social converse with them, through the instrumentality of Conrad 

 Weiser, awakened their earnest wishes for peace. These Indians were 

 despatched with a message from Scarroyady to the hostile tribes, commu- 

 nicating the desires of the Quakers that they should return to their early 

 affections. This coirference was held with the permission of the Governor ; 

 but, by the advice of his Council, the subject was left entirely to the 

 management of Friends. 



The conference at Easton had hardly been concluded when new acts 

 of murder were committed on the south side of the Blue Mountain.'-^ The 

 1 Gordon. Col. Records. 2 Heckewelder. 



