﻿HISTORY 
  OF 
  THE 
  NEW 
  YORK 
  IROQUOIS 
  2.QTJ 
  

  

  probably 
  never 
  knew 
  of 
  the 
  existence 
  of 
  a 
  grant 
  so 
  absolute, 
  

   and 
  to 
  which 
  their 
  consent 
  had 
  never 
  been 
  asked. 
  The 
  grand 
  

   seneschal 
  of 
  New 
  France 
  was 
  enjoined 
  to 
  put 
  the 
  Jesuits 
  in 
  pos- 
  

   session. 
  The 
  governor 
  had 
  also 
  " 
  caused 
  a 
  fort 
  to 
  be 
  erected 
  on 
  

   Lake 
  Gonontaa, 
  and 
  granted 
  to 
  sundry 
  private 
  persons 
  some 
  Iro- 
  

   quois 
  lands, 
  for 
  which 
  deeds 
  have 
  been 
  executed." 
  This 
  was 
  

   dated 
  at 
  Quebec, 
  Ap. 
  12, 
  1756, 
  five 
  weeks 
  before 
  the 
  colony 
  left. 
  

   The 
  French 
  ideas 
  were 
  much 
  like 
  those 
  of 
  Governor 
  Winthrop 
  

   of 
  Alassachusetts 
  : 
  " 
  If 
  we 
  leave 
  them 
  sufficient 
  for 
  their 
  use, 
  

   we 
  may 
  lawfully 
  take 
  the 
  rest, 
  there 
  being 
  more 
  than 
  enough 
  

   for 
  them 
  and 
  us." 
  

  

  The 
  mission 
  buildings 
  were 
  erected 
  on 
  the 
  east 
  shore 
  of 
  Onon- 
  

   daga 
  lake, 
  south 
  of 
  the 
  present 
  village 
  of 
  Liverpool, 
  the 
  site 
  

   being 
  described 
  as 
  at 
  a 
  distance 
  from 
  any 
  salt 
  springs. 
  A 
  work 
  

   supposed 
  to 
  mark 
  the 
  spot 
  was 
  probably 
  that 
  made 
  by 
  Frontenac 
  

   40 
  years 
  later, 
  and 
  does 
  not 
  agree 
  in 
  outline 
  with 
  what 
  we 
  know 
  

   of 
  the 
  mission 
  which 
  probably 
  stood 
  there. 
  Regarding 
  that, 
  too, 
  

   the 
  Relations 
  definitely 
  speak 
  of 
  but 
  one 
  house, 
  possibly 
  a 
  term 
  

   for 
  the 
  whole 
  stockade, 
  including 
  several 
  houses, 
  the 
  circum- 
  

   stances 
  seeming 
  to 
  require 
  this 
  in 
  order 
  to 
  build 
  and 
  remove 
  

   several 
  large 
  boats 
  unseen, 
  with 
  their 
  lading. 
  On 
  the 
  other 
  hand, 
  

   Charlevoix 
  distinctly 
  speaks 
  of 
  the 
  Jesuits' 
  own 
  house 
  as 
  the 
  

   largest 
  of 
  all. 
  In 
  De 
  Nonville's 
  memoir 
  of 
  1688 
  it 
  is 
  also 
  said 
  

   that 
  the 
  colonists 
  cleared 
  and 
  planted 
  fields, 
  and 
  also 
  " 
  built 
  

   many 
  large 
  houses." 
  For 
  lodging 
  over 
  60 
  men 
  it 
  could 
  hardly 
  

   have 
  been 
  otherwise. 
  

  

  More 
  specifically, 
  the 
  mission 
  seems 
  to 
  have 
  been 
  on 
  lot 
  106, 
  

   Salina, 
  near 
  the 
  large 
  spring 
  where 
  Frontenac's 
  fort 
  was 
  in 
  1696 
  

   and 
  which 
  he 
  left 
  to 
  camp 
  for 
  a 
  night 
  at 
  the 
  salt 
  springs, 
  all 
  the 
  

   early 
  ones 
  known 
  being 
  south 
  of 
  the 
  marsh. 
  A 
  passage 
  in 
  the 
  

   Relation 
  of 
  1656 
  has 
  been 
  misapplied. 
  In 
  this 
  we 
  are 
  told 
  : 
  

   " 
  The 
  fountain 
  of 
  which 
  one 
  makes 
  vely 
  good 
  salt, 
  intersects 
  

   a 
  beautiful 
  prairie, 
  surrounded 
  by 
  a 
  grove 
  of 
  high 
  forest 
  trees. 
  

   At 
  80 
  or 
  100 
  paces 
  from 
  this 
  salt 
  spring 
  is 
  seen 
  another 
  of 
  fresh 
  

   water, 
  and 
  these 
  tAvo 
  opposites 
  take 
  birth 
  from 
  the 
  bosom 
  of 
  the 
  

   same 
  hill." 
  

  

  