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sent to Messrs Wendell, Hartsen and others, then in the Seneca 

 country. At the same time the Fox Indians sent two red stone 

 axes to the young Senecas, which Joncaire forwarded to Canada, 

 saying they were a request that the Foxes might live with them. 



In the spring of the same year Jacob Brower, a trader, was 

 murdered at Oswego Falls. The Indians made satisfaction and 

 testified that he was duly interred. 



In the fall Governor de Beauharnois, hearing that the English 

 were going to Lake Champlain to trade, sent men to drive them 

 off, but they found no one there. In 1731 he proposed building 

 a fort at Crown Point, where the English built and abandoned 

 one in 1709. The English had already placed farmers among 

 the Mohawks and Oneidas, and had a good road from the Mo- 

 hawk river to Oneida lake. It was thought there would soon be 

 a town at Oswego. 



Fort St Frederick was built at Crown Point. Joncaire was 

 employed among the. Senecas, but was sent to the Shawnees on 

 the Ohio. About this time Iroquois parties were out against 

 the Foxes in Wisconsin. 



Iroquois relations with Pennsylvania increased in importance, 

 and in August Governor Keith said there was an opportunity 

 " of sending a Message to the Six (formerly called the Five) 

 Nations by Shekellamy, who is willing to undertake it, & is a 

 truly good Man & a great Lover of the English." A present 

 and an invitation to visit Philadelphia were sent. In December 

 he returned from the Senecas, to whom a covenant belt was 

 delivered at a council. Conrad Weiser was now official inter- 

 preter for the province, and gave warning that there would be 

 trouble with the Six Nations if the liquor trade were not better 

 regulated. He had been adopted by the Mohawks and spoke 

 their language. 



The Seneca, Oneida and Cayuga chiefs came to Philadelphia 

 in August 1732, and ordered the Shawnees to return east, having- 

 absolute power over them. They were coming too much under 

 French influence and refused to obey, killing some Iroquois. 

 The offenders fled, and the Iroquois were afterward pacified with 



