Zonky] saponi and tutelo adopted. 51 



the Tutelo, or a i)art of tliein, living farther up the uortheru branch of 

 the Sus(iuehauna at a village called Skogari, in what is now Columbia 

 couuty, Pennsylvania, He describes it as "the only town on the con- 

 tinent inhabited by Tuteloes, a degenerate remnant of thieves and 

 drunkards" (Hale, 5). Two generations of civilization had evidently 

 changed them from the honest and brave men described by Lederer 

 and Lawson. 



In 1753 the Cayuga formally adoi)ted the Tutelo and Saponi, who 

 thus became a part of the 8ix Nations. The measure was approved by 

 •Sir William Johnson, the English representative (N. Y., 12). At the 

 same time the Oneida adopted the Nanticoke, as they had already 

 received the Tuskarora. From this time the Tutelo and iSaponi chiefs 

 ai)pear on equal terms with those of the Cayuga in the conclaves of 

 the Iroijuois league. In 17G3 the Nanticoke and Conoy, with the 

 "Tutecoes, Saponeys, ettc," were reported by Johnson to number 

 together 200 warriors (N, Y., 13). Jiy "ettc." may perhaps be under- 

 stood the Occaneechi. 



The Tutelo and Saponi did not at oiice remove to the Cayuga. In 

 17C5 the Saponi are mentioned as having 30 warriors, living at Tioga 

 (about Say're, Pennsylvania) and other villages on the northern branch 

 of the Susijuehanna, in connection with the Delaware and Munsee 

 (Croghan, 1). A part of them may have remained at Tioga until its 

 destruction in 1778, but in 1771 the principal portion had their village 

 in the territory of the Cayuga, about 2 miles south of Cayuga lake 

 and 2 miles south of the present Ithaca, Kew York. On the Guy John- 

 son nuip of 1771 it appears as Todevigh-rono (for Toderigli-rouo) ; on 

 another ma[) of about the same date as Kayeghtalagealat; in Grant's 

 journal of 1770 as Dehoriss-kanadia (apparently the Mohawk Tehote- 

 righ-kanada, '^ Tutelo town''); and in Dearborn's journal as Coreorgonel 

 (Uale, C; K Y., 14). 



Then came the llevolution, which resulted in driving half the Iro- 

 ([uois into Canada. The Tutelo village, ^vith those of the Cayuga and 

 Seneca, was destroyed by Sullivan in 1770. Most of the Cayuga fled 

 with IJrant to Canada and were settled by the British government on 

 a reservation assigned to the Six Nations on Grand river in Ontario, 

 on the northern side of Lake Erie. The Tutelo went with them and 

 built their village on what is now known as "Tutelo Pleights," a sub- 

 urb of Brautford, on the western bank of Grand river (Hale, 7). 



The last surviving Tutelo told Hale in 1870 that when his people 

 came to Canada with Brant they parted with the Saponi at Niagara, and 

 what became of the Saponi afterward he did not know. lie did know 

 that the two tribes could understand each other's speech. It is possi- 

 ble to settle the question of the ultimate fate of the Saponi from the 

 record of a treaty nnide with the New York Cayuga at Albany in 

 1780, in which it is stated that the "Paanese" (Sa-poonese), the 

 "adoi>ted brethren" of the Cayuga, were then living with them on 

 their reservation, near Salt Spring, on Seneca river, in Seneca couuty, 



