HISTORY OF THE NEW YORK IROQUOIS 2/3 



Governor JMontgomerie succeeded Governor Burnet Ap. 15, 

 1728, and had a conference with the Iroquois on the rum ques- 

 tion. It might be sold but not brought to their towns. 



That year Chauvignerie went on an embassy to Onondaga, 

 then in Onondaga valley. The sachems met him on the lake 

 three leagues from Oswego, and told him he must fire the first 

 salute and lower his flag when he passed the fort. He refused 

 and asked whose land it was. The Onondagas said it belonged 

 to them. He landed, pitched his tent, but refused to enter the 

 fort or to strike his flag, which he kept up night and day while 

 he stayed. No salutes were exchanged, and he would not allow 

 an Onondaga to carry the British flag over his canoe. Half a 

 league from Onondaga the chiefs met him, and he marched in 

 under the French flag, placing it over Ononwaragon's cabin. He 

 employed chiefs to bewail that chief's death, that of his nephew 

 and of the Onondagas generally. 



To counteract the effect of the Oswego post, the French voy- 

 ageurs were ordered to take the north shore of the lake, and it was 

 desirable to have a post at the Bay of the Cayugas, 8 or 9 leagues 

 west of Oswego. 



In 1728 the Council at Philadelphia thought " that as the Five 

 Nations have an absolute Authority over all our Indians, and 

 may command them as they please, it is of great importance to 

 Remove any Impressions that have been made upon them to the 

 prejudice of the English, and that by all means 'tis necessary 

 they should be spoken with." 



It was noted that Shikellimy had been appointed by the Five 

 Nations to reside among the Shawnees. At a conference in 

 Philadelphia Oct. 10, the old Delaware chief, Sassoonan, said : 



The Five Nations had often told them that they were as 

 Women only, & desired them to plant Corn & mind their own 

 private Business, for that they would take Care of what related 

 to Peace & War, & that therefore they have ever had good & 

 peaceable Thoughts towards us. 



In 1730 Joncaire told the Senecas that he had been expelled 

 from the French service and asked leave to build a trading house 

 of his own at Irondequoit bay. Instructions against this were 



