APPENDIX A 



THE IROQUOIS!— EXTENT OF THEIR CONQUESTS. — POI/- 

 ICY PURSUED TOWARDS THEM BY THE FRENCH AND 

 THE ENGLISH. — MEASURES OF SIR WILLIAM JOHNSON. 



1. Territory of the Iroquois. (Vol. I. p. 7.) 



Extract from a Letter — Sir W. Johnson to the Board of Trade, 

 November 13, 1763: — 



My Lords : 



In obedience to your Lordships' commands of the 5th of August last, 

 I am now to lay before you the claims of tlie Nations mentioned in the 

 State of tlie Confederacies. The Five Nations have in the last century 

 subdued the Shawanese, Delawares, Twighties, and Western Indians, so 

 far as Lakes Michigan and Superior, received them into an alliance, 

 allowed them the possession of the lands they occupied, and have ever 

 since been in peace with the greatest part of them ; and such was the 

 prowess of the Five Nations' Confederacy, that had tliey been properly 

 supported by us, they would have long since put a period to the Colony 

 of Canada, which alone they were near effecting in the year 1688. Since 

 that time, they have admitted the Tuscaroras from the Southward, 

 beyond Oneida, and they have ever since formed a part of that Con- 

 federacy. 



As original proprietors, this Confederacy claim the country of their 

 residence, south of Lake Ontario to the great Ridge of the Blue Moun- 

 tains, with all the Western Part of the Province of New York towards 

 Hudson River, west of the Catskill, thence to Lake Champlain, and from 

 Regioghne, a Rock at the East side of said Lake, to Oswegatche or La 

 Gallette, on the River St. Lawrence, (havinsc long since ceded their claim 

 north of said line in favor of the Canada Indians, as Hunting-ground,) 

 thence up the River St. Lawrence, and along the South side of Lakp 

 Ontario to Niagara. 



