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The Canada Indians promised not to war on Massachusetts, , 

 and the Five Nations threatened to compel the eastern Indians 

 to be quiet. The English captured 40 Abenaquis and placed 

 them among the Iroquois, and the latter sent two of them, under 1 

 guard, to treat for peace. The Abenaquis were away, and the , 

 messengers left suitable tokens, but there were misunderstandings t 

 and hostilities increased. Father Rasle was soon after killed, 

 and the Iroquois promised not to make war on the Abenaquis, 

 who greatly feared them. Governor Vaudreuil then sent Jon- 

 caire to winter among the Senecas and proposed sending Dei 

 Longueuil to Onondaga. He now forbade the connection of 

 trading posts with missions. 



The Six Nations tried to make peace between the Canadian 

 Indians and New England, but the former refused. On this ques- 

 tion they conferred with the governor of Massachusetts at Albany 

 in September 1724. At the same time they held a council with 

 Governor Burnet. He had kept a smith and some young men in 

 the Seneca country for two years and heard they had a good 

 house. He found others willing to live among the Onondagas, 

 and would build a house at the mouth of their river. This led to 

 a fuller examination of Wood creek and the Oneida carrying 

 place. 



Chapter 15 



Fort at Oswego. Trust deed of residence land. ShikelHmy viceroy in 

 Pennsylvania. French at Onondaga. French fort at Crown Point. 

 Pennsylvania and the Six Nations. Their council. Weiser and Shikel- 

 Hmy. Council at Stenton. Iroquois claims. Their numbers. Albany 

 council. French claims in New York. War against Southern Indians, 

 Joncaires. Blacksmiths. 



The lucid papers of Cadwallader Golden, in 1724, helped the 

 founding of Oswego, a situation which Governor Burnet pre- 

 ferred to Oneida lake. Dekanissora was still speaker and was 

 to advise with Burnet on all matters of importance. 



In 1725 the Iroquois of the Sault and of the Two Mountains 

 sent word to the Six Nations that, if they allowed an English 

 fort at Oswego, they would make war on them, but thought bet- 

 ter of this. The English started their expedition in March, but 



