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ately the issuance of supplies to the Indians, and his attention was 

 called to the fact that the Governor had been led to believe that they 

 had cultivated sufficient ground in their present location to support 

 themselves without much assistance from the Government, and that 

 as long as they remained there they were, in Haldimand's opinion, 

 independent of the neighboring post. It was admitted, however, 

 that when they should remove to Grand River they would doubtless 

 require rations from the government. These admonitions had the 

 desired effect, and before the end of the year the Mohawks, together 

 with members of the other tribes, except the Senecas, Onondagas, 

 and Tuscarawas, removed to their reservation west of the River Nia- 

 gara. Probably at the same time Captain John and about 20 Mohawk 

 families departed for the reservation on the north side of the Bay 

 of Quinte, which formed a part of the purchase made in 1784 by Cap- 

 tain Crawford of the Indian Department.^ 



In September, 1785, the Indian settlement on the Grand River 

 was reported by the acting superintendent of the Six Nations, Captain 

 John Dease, as numbering 1,000 persons, an equal number having 

 been discouraged from entering the reserve on account of the increase 

 of provisions necessary. Captain Dease added that some disbanded 

 soldiers had taken up their residence among the Indians in order to 

 avoid the restraints of law, and were giving their neighbors a most 

 unfavorable impression of the whites by their cheating and their quar- 

 rels. Several officers of the local Indian Department also settled in 

 the reservation, including "Captain John Dochstader who acquired 

 the greater part of the present township of Canboro, Captain Hendrick 

 Nelles and his five sons who obtained a tract of three miles square, 

 and Adam Young and his three sons, a smaller tract, both lying in 

 the present Township of Seneca."' 



In his negotiations with Governor General Haldimand after 

 the close of the war, Captain Brant had made provision for the erection 

 of a church and school house at the expense of the government. These 

 buildings appear to have been supplied in 1786, and when Mr. Stuart 

 visited the Mohawk town of New Oswego in June, 1788, he brought 

 with him the plate and furniture formerly belonging to the church 

 of the Mohawks at Fort Hunter, being accompanied by the Chief 

 and several other Indians. What the population of the Grand River 

 reservation may have become by this time is uncertain. It seems 

 likely, however, that the thousand tribesmen, whose earlier inclination 

 to settle with their brethren had been discouraged by Captain Dease, 



1 Niagara Hist. Soc, No. 17, 16-18, 28, 29; Haldimand Papers, B. 168, 38-41; 

 B. 64, 93-95; Third Report, Bureau of Archives, Ont., 1905, 406, 453, 454, 493. 



2 Niagara Hist. Soc, No. 17, 28, 29. 



