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After his return west, Pontiac received P>ench and Spanish 

 belts to engage him against the English, but told the Indians he 

 would stand fast to his agreement with Johnson. 



Chapter 21 



More Tiiscaroras come north. Royal grant. Boundary. Traders. Instruc- 

 tion. Dissatisfaction. Johnson in the Onondaga country. Murders of 

 Indians. Peace between Cherokees and Six Nations. Land grants settled. 

 Boundary treaty at Fort Stanwix. Johnson in the Iroquois country. 

 Council at Shamokin. Seneca George. Council at German Flats. Dearth. 

 Reproof of western Indians. Scioto council. 



Some Tuscarora chiefs went to North Carolina in the spring 

 of 1766, with an interpreter, and brought thence 160 of their 

 people. Some came the following winter and were alarmed at 

 the deep snow. They brought certificates of good behavior from 

 the magistrates of all the districts through which they passed, 

 but their lives were in danger from lawless people, so that they 

 had to be protected. The worst place was Paxton Pa., where 

 they were robbed of several horses, and they complained to John- 

 son. Some stopped for a time at Shamokin and Wyalusing on 

 the Susquehanna. That year Zeisberger made his last visits 

 to Onondaga and Cayuga, obtaining a grant of land for the 

 Moravian Indians at and above Wyalusing. 



At this time Johnson applied for the tract afterward called the 

 Royal Grant, north of the Mohawk and near Canajoharie. He 

 said he had obtained but a small amount of Indian land and had 

 paid full value for all. This would seem to dispose of his " dream- 

 ing " with Hendrick, even if this were not in itself improbable, 

 i Hendrick having no personal power to give or sell land. That 

 [belonged to the Council or individual owners, usually requiring 

 [the assent of the three clans. There is, however, a legal refer- 

 [ence to the " dreamland " purchase, as it was sometimes called. 

 I In May 1767 Johnson had a council with the Six Nations at 

 [German Flats, at the request of Pennsylvania and Maryland, to 

 Iget their consent to running the division line of these colonies 

 |over the Allegheny mountains. He effected this. The Iroquois 

 ialso agreed to make peace with the Cherokees when their deputies 

 arrived. He wrote of several matters at this time. Traders with 



