238 AxxALs OF 'iHE Carxkgie jMl'sklm. 



This John Madison, Jr., was the son and deputy of John Madison, 

 who had been appointed Clerk of the County Court of Augusta ('ounty 

 when that court was first organized at Staunton, \'a., to wit, on De- 

 cember 9, 1745, (Peyton's History of Augusta County, p. 32 ), and he 

 had been sworn in as Deputy Clerk at the last term of the Court held at 

 Fort Dunmore, to wit, on August 20, 1776, the next session being 

 held at Augusta Town (now Washington, Pa.), on September 17, 

 1776, (Vol. I. of these Annals, p. 565). John Madison, the Clerk, 

 was a cousin of the father of James Madison, who became President 

 of the United States, and was the father of Rev. James Madison, long 

 the distinguished head of ^Villiam and Mary College, and the first 

 Bishop of the Protestant Episcopal Church of Virginia. (Peyton's 

 History of Augusta County, p. 345). 



Indian Titlks. 



To make the transcripts of the conveyances by George Croghan and 

 others contained in the records following more intelligible, as well 

 as to throw light upon entries made of transactions before the Court 

 for the District of West Augusta, copies are presented of two old In- 

 dian conveyances made at the great Treaty with the Six Nations held 

 at Fort Stanwix, now Rome, Oneida County, New Vork. 



The French and Indian War had terminated in 1763, resulting in 

 the ending of the French Occupation of the Monongahela and Ohio 

 Valleys. The same year had occurred and ended Pontiac's Conspir- 

 acy, and a general peace with the Indians followed until Dunmore's 

 War in 1774, the pioneers being disturbed only by sporadic Indian 

 raids and depredations. The Indians, however, still claimed the 

 lands upon the waters of the Monongahela, Allegheny, and Ohio 

 Rivers as their own. These Indians, called by the French the Iro- 

 quois, formed a confederacy, named by the English " the Six Nations," 

 composed of the Mohawks, Oneidas, Senecas, Onondagas, Cayugas, 

 and Tuscaroras, and had their Council House, or seat of government, 

 in the valleys of western New York. It was chiefly to establish 

 certain boundaries limiting their exclusive rights on the East, that the 

 Treaty at Fort Stanwix had been brought about. 



The congress was opened on October 24, 1768. There were pres- 

 ent Sir William Johnson, Baronet, his Majesty's Superintendent of 

 Indian Affairs; William Franklin, Esq., Governor of New Jersey; 

 Frederick Smith, Chief Justice of New Jersey ; Thomas Walker, 



