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A council was held with the Iroquois at Albany Sep. 20, 1714. 

 They had heard the southern colonies intended cutting them 

 off, which they would not believe were powder cheaper, but on 

 this they had recalled a war party of 40 Senecas and 100 Onon- 

 dagas. The governor denied the report, but would try to have 

 powder cheaper, giving them handsome presents and beer to 

 drink the queen's health. Dekanissora promised to send expresses 

 to all the nations to tell them there was no truth in the report. They 

 said the warriors were young men, and it would depend on them 

 whether they buried the hatchet against the Flatheads. They had 

 no good clothes to wear to church, and deferred the missionary ques- 

 tion till goods were cheaper and they could go w^ell dressed. The 

 Senecas wished a smith at a hamlet between them and the Cayugas. 

 The Tuscaroras now lived among them, though a few remained 

 south, and Governor Hunter was to look on them as their chil- 

 dren, who would live peaceably between Onondaga and Oneida. 

 A tract had been assigned them in what is now Madison county. 



In 171 5 the French were still intriguing, and there were idle 

 stories of an intended French fort at Onondaga. These troubled 

 those in power only as it might affect trade, for the traders 

 then cared more for private profit than the public good. Gov- 

 ernor Hunter tried to have the Five Nations go against those 

 Indians in Carolina who had attacked the English there, and 

 said the friendly Indians on the Susquehanna had brought home 

 30 prisoners. He Avas not aware that the war was over. 



At a council in Albany Aug. 2J, 1715, Dekanissora returned 

 the unfortunate hatchet given him against Canada, and they 

 must never give so poor a one again. If used, it must be new 

 steeled. They would close the southern warpath, though war- 

 riors were still out. Their story about southern troubles dif- 

 fered from that of the English, who had the Flatheads or Cataw- 

 bas help them there against the Tuscaroras. The Catawbas 

 were faithless and ought to be conquered themselves. They 

 lamented the death of Queen Anne, and afterward sent mes- 

 sengers south. 



De Longueuil was at Onondaga in 1716 and thought a fort 



