A party of about one hundred retreated into Maryland, and occupied some abandoned Indian forts. Accused of the murder of some settlers, apparently slain by the Senecas, they sent five of their chiefs to the Maryland and Virginia troops, under Washington and Brent, who went out in {121} pursuit. Although coming as deputies, and showing the Baltimore medal and certificate of friendship, these chiefs were cruelly put to death. The enraged Susquehannas then began a terrible border war, which was kept till their utter destruction (S. F. Streeter’s Destruction of the Susquehannas, _Historical Magazine_, I, p. 65). The rest of the tribe, after making overtures to Lord Baltimore, submitted to the Five Nations, and were allowed to retain their ancient grounds. When Pennsylvania was settled, they became known as Conestogas, and were always friendly to the colonists of Penn, as they had been to the Dutch and Swedes. In 1701 Canoodagtoh, their king, made a treaty with Penn, and in the document they are styled Minquas, Conestogos or Susquehannas. They appear as a tribe in a treaty in 1742, but were dwindling away. In 1763 the feeble remnant of the tribe became involved in the general suspicion entertained by the colonists against the red men, arising out of massacres on the borders. To escape danger the poor creatures took refuge in Lancaster jail, and here they were all butchered by the Paxton boys, who burst into the place. Parkman in his _Conspiracy of Pontiac_, p. 414, details the sad story. The last interest of this unfortunate tribe centres in Logan, the friend of the white man, whose speech is so familiar to all, that we must regret that it has not sustained the historical scrutiny of Brantz Mayer (_Tahgahjute; or, Logan and Capt. Michael Cresap_, Maryland Hist. Soc., May, 1851; and 8vo, Albany, 1867). Logan was a Conestoga, in other words a Susquehanna. _Note_ 47, _page_ 71. The language of the Susquehannas, as Smith remarks, differed from that of the Virginian tribes generally. As already stated, it was one of the dialects of the Huron-Iroquois, and its relation to other members of the family may be seen by the following table of the numerals: Susquehanna or Minqua. Hochelaga. Huron. Mohawk. Onondaga. 1. Onskat, Segada, Eskate, Easka, Unskat. 2. Tiggene, Tigneny, Téni, Tekeni, Tegni. 3. Axe, Asche, Hachin, Aghsea, Achen. 4. Raiene, Honnacon, Dac, Kieri, Gayeri. 5. Wisck, Ouiscon, Ouyche, Wisk, Wisk. 6. Jaiack, Indahir, Houhahea, Yayak, Haiak. 7. Tzadack, Ayaga, Sotaret, Jatak, Tchiatak. 8. Tickerom, Addegue, Attaret, Satego, Tegeron. 9. Waderom, Madellon, Nechon, Tiyohto, Waderom. 10. Assan, Assem, Oyeri. {122} _Note_ 48, _page_ 73.