HISTORY OF THE NEW YORK IROQUOIS 27I 



the post had not been established May 9, the Senecas opposing it. 

 De Longueuil expected a conference at the Bay of the Cayugas. 

 He met 100 Englishmen at Oswego Falls, who made him show 

 his pass, on which he told the Iroquois chiefs they were no 

 longer masters of their own country. The Five Nations awaited 

 him at Onondaga, consenting to the erection of a stone house at 

 Niagara and the building of two barks on Lake Ontario. He 

 met more than 100 canoes going to the English to trade and heard 

 that they had posts on the Wabash. The Onondagas told him 

 they had agreed to the English going to Gaskonchiague', or 

 Oswego Falls, 6 leagues from the lake. Some rules were made 

 about trading there, but these were soon transferred to Oswego. 



Governor Burnet held another conference with the Six Nations 

 at Albany Sep. 7, 1726. They said the Senecas last year sent 

 them a belt, that, if De Longueuil wished to make a settlement 

 at Niagara, Oswego, or elsewhere on their lands, it should be 

 refused. De Longueuil said that his bark house was decayed 

 and made so many fair speeches that the Onondagas gave their 

 consent, but had repented, blaming no one but themselves. The 

 land belonged to the Senecas. One nation often acted in the 

 name of the rest, but its action was void unless the others con- 

 sented. The Six Nations had notified the French that they must 

 not build at Niagara. They now came howling to Governor 

 Burnet because of their encroachments. 



Sep. 14 the Onondagas, Cayugas and Senecas confirmed the 

 Beaver Land deed, and also signed another trust deed of their 

 residence lands on the south side of Lakes Erie and Ontario, 60 

 miles inland. The Mohawks and Oneidas having no land on 

 these, their signatures were not required. The tract began at 

 " a Creek called Canahogue on the Lake Osweego, (Erie) all 

 along the said lake and all along the narrow passage from the 

 said Lake to the Falls of Oniagara Call'd Cahaquaraghe and all 

 along the River of Oniagara and all along the *Lake Cadarack- 

 quis (Ontario) to the Creek Called Sodoms belonging to the 

 Senekes and from Sodoms to the hill Called Tegerhunkserode 



