mates of the barbarous ferocity of the Indian character as shown by those early massacres.^[1]

The United States' first treaty with the Delawares was made in 1778, at Fort Pitt. The parties to it were said to be "the United States and the Delaware Nation." It stipulates that there be peace, and that the troops of the United States may pass "through the country of the Delaware Nation," upon paying the shall full value of " It further says that, use. any supplies they may Whereas the enemies of the United States have endeavored artifice to possess the Indians with an opinion that our design to extirpate them, and take possession of their country; to obviate such false suggestions, the United States

by every it is

guarantee to said nation of Delawares, and their heirs, all their territorial rights in the fullest and most ample manner as

bounded by former treaties." The treaty also provides that, " should found conducive for the mutual

any other

vite

tribes

it

for the future be

interest of both parties to in

who have been

friends to the interests of

the United States to join the present confederation and form a State, whereof the Delaware Nation shall be the head," it shall

be done

and the Delawares

shall

be entitled to send a

representative to Congress.^[2]

The Delawares agreed to send all the warriors they could spare to fight for us, and that there should be peace and perpetual friendship.

At this time the rest of the Ohio tribes, most of the New York tribes, and a large part of the Delawares were in arms on the British side. When the war of the Revolution was concluded, they were with us in the and all make peace as best they could we provided for the reinstating the chiefs and headmen who had forced to in our first treaty

Delaware Nation of