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Durant met the latter and Chauvignerie above Oswego P^alls, 

 and he said four nations had given him good words. These falls 

 had the same Indian name as those on the Genesee river, and this 

 has caused some confusion of places. 



Governor Burnet held a council with the Six Nations, Sep. 7, 

 1 72 1. The Virginia Indians had proposed that the Potomac river 

 and the high mountains westward should be the dividing line for 

 their hunting parties, neither passing beyond without permission. 

 The Iroquois agreed to this boundary. The governor had been 

 told that, since the Virginia belt came, some of the Iroquois had 

 gone with French Indians against those of Virginia, a frequent 

 practice. 



This month, also, Peter Schuyler jr was sent to the Seneca 

 country with a party of young men, who were willing to stay 

 and trade there for a year. Their house was at Irondequoit, 

 and they were not to trade with the Indians farther east but 

 with any of those west. They were also to encourage the French 

 conreurs de bois to bring their furs to the English, they being 

 willing if protected. 



Another council was held at Albany Aug. 27, 1722. The Iro- 

 quois had done as they agreed last year, sending messengers to 

 the Far Indians to come and trade. Blew Bek, chief sachem of 

 the Senecas, had been to Canada with others and was coming to 

 Albany to tell what the French said. Three companies of their 

 people had gone against the Flatheads. The governor of Vir- 

 ginia was present and promised that the 10 nations of Virginia 

 should not pass the line, and the Iroquois promised the same for 

 themselves, the Tuscaroras and for four nations on the Sus- 

 quehanna. He gave them a golden horseshoe as a passport 

 when they wished to send to him. 



Governor Keith, of Pennsylvania, also conferred with them, 

 and they called him Onas, meaning a pen. Two chiefs of each 

 of the Five Nations and two of the Tuscaroras had a special 

 conference with him Sep. 14. They freely surrendered to him 

 the lands about Conestoga and renewed former treaties. He told 

 the other governors that the Conestogas spoke the same language 



