﻿HISTORY 
  OF 
  THE 
  NEW 
  YORK 
  IROQUOIS 
  245 
  

  

  By 
  the 
  Onondages 
  & 
  Senekaes, 
  who 
  say, 
  you 
  delaware 
  Indians 
  

   doe 
  nothing 
  but 
  stay 
  att 
  home 
  & 
  boill 
  yor 
  potts, 
  and 
  are 
  like 
  

   women, 
  while 
  wee 
  Onondages 
  & 
  Senekaes 
  goe 
  abroad 
  & 
  fight 
  

   agt 
  the 
  enemie. 
  The 
  Senekaes 
  wold 
  have 
  us 
  delaware 
  Indians 
  

   to 
  be 
  ptners 
  wt 
  you 
  to 
  fight 
  agt 
  ye 
  french, 
  But 
  we 
  have 
  always 
  

   been 
  a 
  peaceable 
  people, 
  & 
  resolving 
  to 
  live 
  so, 
  & 
  being 
  but 
  week 
  

   and 
  verie 
  few 
  in 
  number, 
  can 
  not 
  assist 
  you 
  ; 
  & 
  having 
  resolved 
  

   among 
  ourselves 
  not 
  to 
  goe, 
  doe 
  intend 
  to 
  send 
  back 
  this 
  their 
  

   belt 
  of 
  Wampum. 
  

  

  In 
  1695, 
  as 
  he 
  had 
  said 
  before, 
  Louis 
  14 
  did 
  not 
  think 
  it 
  proper 
  

   to 
  continue 
  the 
  rew 
  r 
  ard 
  of 
  10 
  silver 
  e'cus 
  (each 
  60 
  sous) 
  for 
  

   every 
  Iroquois 
  killed, 
  nor 
  the 
  20 
  e' 
  cus 
  for 
  every 
  male 
  Iroquois 
  

   prisoner. 
  It 
  cost 
  too 
  much. 
  

  

  A 
  messenger 
  informed 
  the 
  French 
  that 
  the 
  only 
  Dutchman 
  

   then 
  at 
  Onondaga 
  was 
  Peter 
  Schuyler's 
  brother. 
  War 
  parties 
  

   went 
  out 
  against 
  the 
  English 
  from 
  Canada, 
  and 
  the 
  Iroquois 
  

   had 
  a 
  party 
  watching 
  the 
  Grand 
  river 
  for 
  western 
  Indians. 
  

   Against 
  the 
  Miamis 
  200 
  Senecas 
  and 
  Cayugas 
  were 
  gone, 
  and 
  

   100 
  against 
  the 
  Andastes, 
  as 
  reported 
  ; 
  probably 
  some 
  other 
  

   southern 
  Indians. 
  They 
  threatened 
  to 
  devour 
  the 
  Miamis, 
  that 
  

   they 
  might 
  unite 
  the 
  whole 
  earth, 
  but 
  the 
  lake 
  tribes 
  they 
  would 
  

   not 
  strike. 
  The 
  French 
  persuaded 
  all 
  but 
  the 
  Hurons 
  to 
  make 
  

   war 
  on 
  them, 
  though 
  they 
  did 
  not 
  wish 
  to 
  do 
  this. 
  A 
  Sioux 
  

   chief 
  afterward 
  laid 
  22 
  arrows 
  on 
  a 
  beaver 
  robe 
  before 
  Fron- 
  

   tenac, 
  weeping* 
  and 
  naming 
  a 
  village 
  for 
  each 
  which 
  asked 
  his 
  

   protection. 
  

  

  The 
  Outagamis 
  had 
  spared 
  some 
  Iroquois 
  prisoners, 
  the 
  bet- 
  

   ter-to 
  negotiate. 
  Fearing 
  the 
  Sioux 
  would 
  seize 
  their 
  village, 
  

   they 
  left 
  it 
  to 
  settle 
  by 
  the 
  W 
  abash 
  river, 
  where 
  they 
  could 
  unite 
  

   with 
  the 
  Iroquois 
  and 
  English. 
  Others 
  would 
  join 
  them. 
  

   Some 
  Hurons, 
  led 
  by 
  a 
  chief 
  called 
  the 
  Baron 
  and 
  with 
  the 
  con- 
  

   sent 
  of 
  the 
  nations 
  about 
  Michilimackinac, 
  went 
  to 
  the 
  Senecas 
  

   with 
  14 
  peace 
  belts, 
  but 
  most 
  western 
  nations 
  joined 
  Frontenac. 
  

  

  Peace 
  negotiations 
  had 
  continued 
  till 
  April, 
  when 
  a 
  cruel 
  war 
  

   recommenced 
  with 
  much 
  loss 
  to 
  the 
  French. 
  An 
  Iroquois 
  party 
  

   was 
  defeated 
  on 
  Lake 
  Champlain 
  with 
  mutual 
  loss. 
  Word 
  came 
  

   that 
  the 
  Hurons, 
  Ottawas, 
  Foxes 
  and 
  Maskoutins 
  proposed 
  

  

  