The Quakers lived in harmony and peace, as their religion permitted and demanded; therefore, they had no problems with neighboring Indian tribes; however, this peace was threatened in 1757, when the Delaware and Shawnee natives joined the French, during the Franco-Indian War, and the Pennsylvania government declared war on the two Indian tribes. From that moment on, the Quakers renounced the Pennsylvania Council to keep themselves out of this war, for their pacifist way of seeing life prevented them from going to war with the Indian tribes.