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Belonging to the Cayouges, and from Tegerhunckseroda to the 

 Creek Called Cayhimghage (Salmon river) Belonging to the 

 Onnondages." 



Sadegeenaghtie, who signed the first deed, signed this also. 



Governor Burnet got £300 from New York for building a fort 

 at Oswego and commenced it in the spring of 1727. Being 

 advised that the French might* interfere, he sent 60 soldiers, there '.j 

 being already 200 traders there, besides workmen. The perma- ' 

 nent garrison w^ould be an officer and 20 men. The stone walls 

 w^ere 4 feet thick, and it was finished in August. The French 1 

 sent a summons to have it destroyed and abandoned within 15 

 days, but the matter was referred to the two crowns. The regu- 

 lations there about Indian trade were good and strict. 



In 1726 the Iroquois made some trouble in the south, and the 

 next year there was a conference at Philadelphia, attended mostly ; 

 by Cayugas, who talked of their Susquehanna lands and offered ij 

 to sell. The Shawnees and Delawares were told that the Five 

 Nations would put petticoats on them and look on them as 

 women. They had been so called years before, but in a less 

 decided way. 



In 1728 the Oneida chief Ungquaterughiathe, or Swatana, 

 better known by his Delaware name of Shikellimy, was sent to 

 Pennsylvania to reside there as a kind of viceroy over all the 

 Indians on the Susquehanna in that province. He was the father 

 of the celebrated Logan; but having married a Cayuga, his 

 children were all of that nation. In virtue of his office he repre- 

 sented the Iroquois in a Pennsylvania council in 1728, but took 

 no part. The celebrated Madame Montour was an interpreter 

 at that time, being then the wife, but soon the widow of Robert 

 Hunter, or CarundoAvana, another Oneida chief. Her first hus- 

 band was a Seneca named Roland Montour. She was then called 

 " a French woman, who had lived long among these People," '' 

 and was always represented as of unmixed blood. That year she 

 tqld an alarming story, which came from her sister, married and Ij 

 living among the Miamis, that the Five Nations had asked the 

 Miamis to take the hatchet against the English. 



