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road. A few, like ^Fary Jemison and others, would not return. 

 Some cases were hard. The noted Oneida chief, Thomas ivin^-, 

 said : 



I brought a Girl to Easton, and she run away; when 1 came 

 home I found her there. Bless me ! says I, there is my Wife. 

 I was sorry that I had delivered her, but to my surprize I found 

 her at home. You know^ it is hard to part with a Wife. I have 

 brought you an English prisoner, who I love as my own Wife. 

 I have a young Child by her. You know it is very hard for a 

 man to part with his Wife. I have delivered her, therefore take 

 care of her, and keep her safe, tliat she don't make her escape. 



At this council the Six Nations said they had permitted a fort 

 at Shamokin, which was to be destroyed in due time, and they 

 now wished it removed. It was on their warpath and might make 

 trouble between them and the soldiers. 



That year Edward Johnson, schoolmaster at the Tuscarora 

 castle, made complaints. It was hard teaching such scholars. 

 The Rev. Mr Wheelock wrote that a legacy of £750 from Sir 

 Peter Warren had been appropriated by the General Assembly 

 of Massachusetts for the support and education of six youths of 

 the Six Nations, as he had desired. He had the youths and was 

 teaching them, but the commissioners thought this w^as not the 

 best way. They thought it better to have English schools among 

 them, and he wanted Johnson's opinion. He replied that Whee- 

 lock's plan was best, as the others would find if they tried theirs. 

 In October of that year Johnson wrote to the Rev. ^Mr Barclay 

 about a new edition of the Mohawk prayer book, sending the old 

 one with some additional translations. 



Guy Johnson had a conference at Onondaga in December about 

 the murder of two Englishmen by two Indians in the Seneca 

 country. Nov. 30, he came to the upper Oneida Castle and the 

 next day to Canowaroghere, (present Oneida Castle), a new vil- 

 lage of the Oneidas. Dec. 2 he was at the Tuscarora village of 

 Canaseraga. Dec. 4 he arrived at Onondaga and was welcomed 

 by Otschiniata, or the' Bunt. He was told that Kanisteo was a 

 village of lawless stragglers, but the Indians would send there 

 for the murderers. 



