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caire was sent as best qualified to prevent the building of the 

 English house. The Indians, however, still traded at Albany, 

 not finding good clothes at Niagara. In the early part of Gov- 

 ernor Hunter's administration, the Palatines had come to New 

 York; and he closed his term with a warning. If war should 

 come with the Five Nations, '' the best part of the province will 

 certainly be ruined." 



The Mission of the Mountain had been for nearly 20 years at 

 the Sault au Recollect, near Montreal, but in 1720 it was removed 

 to the Lake of the Tw'o Mountains, at the end of the island. 

 The Indians of this and Caughnawaga were hostile to New Eng- 

 land, and there are yet descendants of their English prisoners 

 there and at St Regis. Some went west, and a new Caughna- 

 waga arose on the Muskingum. 



By conquest much of Pennsylvania belonged to the Iroquois, 

 and this claim they had before asserted, while assenting to some 

 early acts. In 1720 the Six Nations, as they were now often 

 called, were dissatisfied with the increasing settlements on the 

 Susquehanna, to which the Cayugas made special claim. About 

 1700 Governor Penn had bought some of these lands of the 

 Conestogas, and the Five Nations afterward assented to this. 

 Another amicable settlement came later, but other claims led to 

 many councils and much intercourse between Philadelphia and 

 Onondaga. The usual route was by the Susquehanna. 



In 1721 it was stated that De Longueuil had been adopted by 

 the Onondagas, his family being also of that nation. Joncaire 

 was an adopted Seneca, and so both were commonly in the Iro- 

 quois towns. Governor Burnet heard that the Senecas were 

 growing cold toward them. That year Joncaire, Longueuil and 

 Chauvignerie went to the Senecas, thanking them for their good 

 will and asking them to go to Onondaga and call a council, to 

 refuse the English passage if they came to destroy the fort. The 

 Senecas were divided on this, the fort not being on their original 

 land. June 20, John Durant, a French chaplain, met Joncaire 

 at Oswego, returning from Onondaga. He said he had beaten 

 the bush and De Longueuil would take the birds. Next day 



