﻿HISTORY 
  OF 
  THE 
  NEW 
  YORK 
  IROQUOIS 
  253 
  

  

  came 
  to 
  Onondaga 
  July 
  24. 
  The 
  first 
  two 
  spoke 
  Iroquois 
  as 
  

   fluently 
  as 
  French. 
  Among 
  the 
  warlike 
  Onondagas 
  there 
  were 
  

   as 
  many 
  French 
  partizans 
  as 
  English, 
  and 
  there 
  were 
  slight 
  hopes 
  

   of 
  retaining 
  them. 
  They 
  needed 
  English 
  ministers, 
  but 
  they 
  

   said, 
  now 
  they 
  had 
  their 
  prisoners 
  back, 
  they 
  would 
  go 
  to 
  Canada 
  

   no 
  more. 
  

  

  At 
  this 
  time 
  five 
  Dowaganhaes, 
  or 
  Ottawas, 
  came 
  to 
  Onondaga 
  

   to 
  make 
  peace 
  for 
  three 
  strong 
  nations. 
  The 
  French 
  had 
  

   incited 
  them 
  to 
  hostilities, 
  but 
  they 
  had 
  settled 
  at 
  Tchojachiage, 
  

   on 
  the 
  north 
  shore 
  of 
  Lake 
  Ontario 
  near 
  the 
  Senecas, 
  and 
  desired 
  

   peace. 
  With 
  the 
  Iroquois 
  and 
  English 
  they 
  wished 
  " 
  to 
  boil 
  in 
  

   one 
  kettle, 
  eat 
  out 
  of 
  one 
  dish, 
  and 
  with 
  one 
  spoon, 
  and 
  so 
  be 
  

   one." 
  The 
  other 
  Dowaganhaes 
  had 
  again 
  killed 
  many 
  Iroquois 
  

   at 
  French 
  instigation. 
  They 
  would 
  not 
  take 
  the 
  hatchet 
  out 
  of 
  

   their 
  heads 
  till 
  they 
  submitted 
  to 
  the 
  French 
  and 
  had 
  killed 
  40 
  

   Senecas 
  that 
  spring. 
  The 
  French 
  governor 
  offered 
  to 
  take 
  the 
  

   hatchet 
  from 
  the 
  Far 
  Indians 
  if 
  the 
  Iroquois 
  would 
  send 
  one 
  

   from 
  each 
  nation 
  to 
  treat 
  with 
  him. 
  

  

  At 
  this 
  time 
  the 
  Mohawks 
  told 
  the 
  eastern 
  Indians 
  that, 
  if 
  they 
  

   lived 
  not 
  peaceably 
  with 
  the 
  English, 
  they 
  would 
  come 
  and 
  cut 
  

   them 
  off, 
  and 
  they 
  submitted. 
  

  

  Governor 
  Bellomont 
  conferred 
  in 
  Albany 
  Aug. 
  20, 
  1700, 
  with 
  

   50 
  Iroquois 
  sachems, 
  not 
  allotted 
  as 
  in 
  the 
  condoling 
  lists. 
  There 
  

   were 
  11 
  of 
  each 
  nation 
  except 
  the 
  Oneida, 
  and 
  this 
  had 
  six. 
  They 
  

   were 
  glad 
  to 
  be 
  promised 
  ministers. 
  The 
  French 
  clothed 
  all 
  

   whom 
  they 
  baptized, 
  but 
  probably 
  the 
  English 
  would 
  not 
  do 
  

   that. 
  The 
  Mohawks 
  had 
  persuaded 
  Brandt 
  and 
  three 
  others 
  who 
  

   were 
  going 
  to 
  Canada, 
  to 
  remain 
  and 
  be 
  Protestants. 
  The 
  Pray- 
  

   ing 
  Iroquois 
  of 
  Canada 
  now 
  numbered 
  350 
  men, 
  and 
  their 
  wish 
  

   to 
  be 
  Christians 
  took 
  them 
  there. 
  

  

  Colonel 
  Schuyler 
  and 
  all 
  the 
  Albany 
  people 
  opposed 
  the 
  Onon- 
  

   daga 
  fort, 
  as 
  they 
  wished 
  trade 
  at 
  Albany. 
  The 
  beaver 
  trade 
  

   had 
  sunk 
  to 
  nothing 
  there, 
  and 
  the 
  Iroquois 
  hunts 
  led 
  to 
  con- 
  

   stant 
  wars. 
  

  

  Colonel 
  Romer 
  was 
  in 
  the 
  Onondaga 
  country 
  in 
  October 
  1700, 
  

   and 
  has 
  left 
  us 
  a 
  curious 
  map 
  of 
  his 
  travels 
  and 
  the 
  country. 
  

  

  