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Chapter 26 



Morse's Indian report. Census made at various times. Ogden Land Co. 

 Reservations. General Carrington's statements. Little violence. Citizen- 

 ship. Title to lands. Schools. Union soldiers. Present government. 

 Immorality. Progress. 



The Rev. Jedidiah Morse made a report in 1822, on the Indians 

 of the United States. In 1796 he found " the whole population 

 of the Six Nations, including their adopted children, was 3748." 

 In 1818 Jasper Parish said officially, *' The population of the Six 

 Nations of Indians is 4575." The Oneidas were then 1031, exclu- 

 sive of the Stockbridges; and at old Onondaga were 299 Onon- 

 dagas. Morse found but 272 of the latter there in 1821. Includ- 

 ing the Brothertown and Stockbridge Indians at Oneida, the Six 

 Nations of New York then numbered 4884. After that, most of 

 the Oneidas went to Wisconsin. 



In 1792 their missionary, .Rev. Samuel Kirkland, said the 

 Oneidas had several villages from 10 to 15 miles from Oneida 

 lake, and numbered 630. There were 280 Stockbridge Indians 

 6 miles south of the largest Oneida village, who came from 

 Massachusetts. The Oneidas had also given lands to 250 

 Brothertown Indians in 1786, which were 20 miles south of 

 Oneida lake. Their village was 8 miles south of the Stock- 

 bridges, and they had come from Long Island sound. 



Mention has been made of some of the loose estimates of num- 

 bers from time to time. In the New York census of 1845 ^^ 

 effort was made to get more reliable data of all kinds, and Henry 

 R. Schoolcraft was employed to do this. He found here 20 Mo- 

 hawks, 210 Oneidas, 368 Onondagas, 123 Cayugas, 2441 Senecas, 

 281 Tuscaroras, and 360 St Regis Indians. Other Iroquois in 

 the United States were ^22 Oneidas in Wisconsin, 125 Senecas: 

 west of the Mississippi, and 211 mixed Senecas and Shawnees,- 

 of whom half might be Senecas. There were also 51 Cornplanter: 

 Senecas in Pennsylvania, named from that chief. He estimat( 

 the Canadian Iroquois at 2000, and the whole number then livii 

 at 6942, but did not take in some Canadian villages ; and the men 

 estimates are too low. 



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