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lowing Is a copy of the Indinn address. 



" His excellency, Isaac T'lchenori^ Esq. gov. 



* ernor of the Stutc of Vennoat, 



' Great brother, 



* We the chiefs and councillors of the 



* seven nations of Lower Canada Indians, send 

 '• our love and respect to you and your family, 



* by five of our agents, which we the chiefs 

 ' have sent to you to treat about our hunting 



* lands^ that lie in your state. Beginning on the 

 ' east side of Ticonderoga, from thence to the 

 ' great falls on Otter Creek, and continues the 

 ' same course to the height of land, that divides 



* the streams between lake Champlain, and the 



* river Connecticut ; from thence along the height 

 'of lands opposite Missisque ; and then down to' 

 ^ the Bay : That is the land belonging to the 

 ^ seven nations, which we have sent to settle 



* for with. you, as we have settled with York 



* state. So we hope you will be pleased to re- 



* ceive our agents, and that it will be settled, so 

 ' that both sides will be contented. 



' Cognahwaghah, the 29th of Septernberj 

 ' 1798." 



Signed by twenty chiefs of the different na- 

 tions.* 



The assembly took up the matter with pro- 

 priety and attention, and appointed a respectable 

 committee to examine the matter, to state facts, 

 and make report to the house. The committee 

 attended on the Indian chiefs, exammed their 

 claims, and made report that they were opinion 

 that " they have had a claim to the above de- 



* scribed land, by a title arising from an agrcc- 



• Joxirnalfor 179$. p, 108. 



