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of it, they, by the terror of their arms, engaged a nation, known by the name of the Nanticocks, Coneys and Lutetocs, and who lived betweenChesapeake and Delaware Bays, and bordering on the territory of Chihohocki, to enter into an alliance with them; they also formed an alliance with the Monahans, and stimulated them to war with the Lenapi, and their confederates. At the same time the Mohawks carried on a furious war down the Hudson against the Mo-hiccons and river Indians, and compelled them to purchase a temporary and precarious peace, by each acknowledging them to be their supe-riors, and paying an annual tribute. The Lenapi being surrounded with enemies and hard pressed, and having lost many of their warriors, were compelled at last to sue for peace, which was granted them on the condition that they should put themselves under the protection of the Mingoes, confine themselves to raising corn, hunting for the subsistence of their fami-lies, and no longer have the power of making war. This is what the Indians call making them women. Under this condition the Lenapis were when William Penn first arrived, and began the settlement of Pennsylvania in the year 1682. In Sept. 1700, the Indians residing on the Susquehanna, granted to William Penn all their lands on both sides of the river. The Indians living on the Susquehanna and Potomac and