Character of Joseph Bettys--His exploits--Capture and execution--Progress of the war--Gradual cessation of hostilities--Dwindling down to mere affairs of outposts and scouting parties--Commissioners appointed to negotiate a treaty of peace--Indian battles on the Kentucky frontier--Defeat of Colonel Boon--Destruction of the Shawanese towns--The Moravians on the Muskingum--Their removal to Sandusky by the Wyandots--Return to secure their crops--Invasion of their towns by Colonel Williamson--Treachery of Williamson and his men to the Indians--Horrible massacre--Invasion of the Sandusky country by Crawford and Williamson--Defeat of their army--Colonel Crawford captured--Sentenced to die by torture--His interview with the sachem Wingemund--His execution--Close of the year--Doubts as to a treaty of peace--Colonel Willett's attempt to surprise Oswego--The news of peace--Sufferings of Tryon County--Return of its population--End of the wars of the Mohawk. 210 CHAPTER VIII. The Treaty of Peace--Neglect of her Indian allies by Great Britain--Brant's negotiations with General Haldimand for a new territory--The Senecas invite the Mohawks to settle in the Genesee Valley--Declined--The Grand River country granted to the Mohawks by Sir Frederick Haldimand--Indian policy of the United States--Views of Washington and General Schuyler--Treaty with the Six Nations at Fort Stanwix--Corn-planter and Red Jacket take opposite sides--Peace with the Six Nations--Dissatisfaction of the Indians--Of Thayendanegea in particular--Letter of Brant to Colonel Monroe--Relinquishes his design of going then to England--Returns to Grand River--Differences of opinion wither John Johnson--Brant sails for England in the Autumn of 1785--His arrival--Glimpses of his ulterior designs--His distinguished reception--Enters upon the business of his mission--Letter to Lord Sidney--Speech of Brant to Lord Sidney--Letter of Lord Sidney in reply--Question of half-pay--Brant's Letter to Sir Evan Nepean--His associations with the great--Keen sarcasm upon a nobleman--Striking incident at a grand masquerade--Brant's attention to the moral wants of his people--His return to Canada. 237 CHAPTER IX.