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the matter was brought to a speedy and satis- 

 factory issue by the liberality and justice of the 

 governors of Canada. The assembly had so 

 high a sense of Mr. Tichenor's services on this 

 occasion, that they returned him their thanks in 

 a warm and affectionate address ; and desired 

 him to inform the governor of Canada that they 

 entertained '* a very high sense of the liberal, , 

 candid, and delicate manner, in which that un- 

 happy affair, had from its commencement to its 

 termination been treated by his predecessor, and 

 by him. Their conduct, when our sense thereof 

 is known to our fellow citizens, must tend to 

 increase the general desire for the continuation 

 of a mutual, a free, and amicable intercourse, 

 "with the country over which he presides."* 



At this session the governor communicated 

 to the assembly, the result of his enquiries res- 

 pectmg the claims of the Indians to lands in 

 V^ermont : That these '* Indians, the Cognah- 

 waghahs, were anciently of the confederacy cal- 

 led the five nations ; which confederacy, or 

 some nation of that confederacy, might have 

 once had a good right to the territory now 

 claimed. In the former wars between the En- 

 glish and French, while the English king held 

 the government of this country, it is believed 

 the Cognahwaghahs separated from the confed- 

 eracy, removed into Canada, put themselves 

 under the French, and joined their fortunes with 

 the French king, in his wars ■with the English ; 

 the latter being victorious, conquered the French 

 and their allies in this country, and in Canada, 

 TUpon which the whole country was yielded to 

 the English, in right of conquest. That in the 



• Journal for 1 799. p. 64. 



