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these became the prayer book of 1787, which also included the 

 Gospel of St Mark. 



Two of the Iroquois deputies to the Scioto council died on thejr 

 way home, and they were the principal ones. The others showed 

 Sir William a number of belts and calumets and told him all ' 

 they could. They had talked first with the Shawnees at Fort 

 Pitt, and they said the Wawiaghtanons would soon send deputies 

 to the Six Nations and Johnson. At the council they blamed the 

 Shawnees for going so far down the Ohio and confederating with 

 unfriendly Indians. All the belts sent were faithfully rendered. 

 Nickaroondase was the principal survivor of those who went to 

 Scioto that year. 



The Shawnees replied to this reproof that the Six Nations had 

 long seemed to neglect them, and to forget their promise of land ; 

 between the Ohio and the lakes. So they started to seek their 

 fortunes in their canoes, but were stopped by the Iroquois at 

 Scioto, shaken by the head and fixed there, with a charge to live 

 at peace with the English. Soon after they were surprised at , 

 seeing the Six Nations in arms and coasting along the lake with 

 the English. When the war was over the ill treatment of the | 

 Iroquois increased, and they sent belts to strengthen the union, 

 but supposed they had not reached them. They showed emble- 

 matic belts, representing them and the Illinois, with 10 con- 

 federate nations between them. They were answered by a true 

 statement of the case and were told to come to Onondaga. On 

 this they excused their acts and promised that they and their 

 allies would be peaceable. 



Sep. 24, 1771, some Cayugas and Tuscaroras were in Phila-. 

 delphia, their speaker being Cheahogah, a Cayuga chief. Cawan-i- 

 daghsaw brought a letter from Charleston S. C, dated Sep. 6,\ 

 saying that Da-ya-gough-de-re-sesh, or Thomas King, had diedj 

 there of fever the day before. The Indian had 20 belts and manyl 

 strings given to King by southern Indians. i 



In April 1772 Johnson had notice of another general meeting! 

 at Scioto to impart the sentiments of the Six Nations to thosej 

 not at the last council. He took care that delegates from th<i 



