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  HEW 
  YORK 
  STATE 
  MUSEUM 
  

  

  been 
  paid 
  for 
  26 
  years, 
  or 
  since 
  1680. 
  The 
  next 
  year 
  they 
  took 
  

   20 
  belts 
  and 
  some 
  strings 
  to 
  Onondaga. 
  

  

  The 
  French 
  again 
  proposed 
  to 
  secure 
  Niagara 
  through 
  Jon- 
  

   caire's 
  influence 
  with 
  the 
  Senecas. 
  Of 
  him 
  it 
  was 
  said 
  later, 
  

   " 
  He 
  is 
  daring, 
  liberal, 
  speaks 
  the 
  language 
  in 
  great 
  perfection, 
  

   hesitates 
  not 
  even 
  whenever 
  it 
  is 
  necessary 
  to 
  decide." 
  

  

  In 
  spite 
  of 
  the 
  French, 
  the 
  Indians 
  would 
  carry 
  furs 
  to 
  the 
  

   English, 
  and 
  their 
  own 
  men 
  would 
  desert. 
  An 
  Onondaga 
  had 
  

   killed 
  a 
  deserter 
  in 
  1708 
  and 
  claimed 
  that 
  the 
  French 
  said 
  such 
  

   men 
  were 
  already 
  dead. 
  They 
  had 
  to 
  yield. 
  That 
  year 
  an 
  

   Englishman 
  was 
  for 
  some 
  months 
  among 
  the 
  Onondagas, 
  Cay- 
  

   ugas 
  and 
  Senecas. 
  Y\ 
  'hen 
  he 
  proposed 
  a 
  fort 
  at 
  Gaskonchiague', 
  or 
  

   Oswego 
  Falls, 
  and 
  another 
  at 
  the 
  head 
  of 
  Lake 
  Thiroguen, 
  or 
  Oneida 
  

   lake, 
  they 
  refused 
  the 
  first 
  and 
  referred 
  the 
  other 
  to 
  the 
  Oneidas. 
  

  

  Father 
  d' 
  Heu 
  also 
  wrote, 
  May 
  24, 
  1708, 
  that 
  two 
  Onondagas 
  

   had 
  gone 
  to 
  the 
  Gannaouans 
  in 
  Virginia, 
  who 
  had 
  an 
  ambuscade 
  

   near 
  Onondaga 
  the 
  year 
  before. 
  They 
  carried 
  several 
  belts. 
  

   The 
  Onondagas 
  were 
  troubled 
  over 
  the 
  pretended 
  settlement 
  of 
  

   the 
  Ottawas 
  at 
  Fort 
  Frontenac 
  and 
  Xiagara, 
  and 
  the 
  French 
  

   posts 
  at 
  Niagara 
  and 
  La 
  Galette. 
  In 
  case 
  of 
  war 
  all 
  this 
  would 
  be 
  

   to 
  their 
  disadvantage. 
  

  

  The 
  English 
  blacksmith 
  had 
  returned 
  to 
  Onondaga, 
  but 
  the 
  

   French 
  party 
  concealed 
  the 
  anvil 
  in 
  the 
  priest's 
  house, 
  eventually 
  

   giving 
  it 
  up. 
  They 
  wanted 
  a 
  French 
  smith, 
  which 
  he 
  thought 
  

   " 
  would 
  be 
  very 
  important 
  for 
  the 
  good 
  of 
  religion 
  and 
  the 
  

   French 
  colony." 
  

  

  De 
  Tonty 
  was 
  reported 
  to 
  have 
  retained 
  Indian 
  presents 
  while 
  

   refusing 
  their 
  requests. 
  This 
  was 
  contrary 
  to 
  their 
  custom 
  and 
  

   displeased 
  them. 
  There 
  were 
  hints, 
  also, 
  that 
  Joncaire 
  made 
  

   money 
  by 
  the 
  use 
  of 
  his 
  office 
  and 
  public 
  presents. 
  That 
  year 
  

   the 
  Indian 
  Montour 
  family 
  first 
  came 
  to 
  notice. 
  The 
  father 
  was 
  

   a 
  Frenchman 
  who 
  had 
  a 
  son 
  and 
  two 
  daughters 
  by 
  an 
  Indian 
  

   wife, 
  and 
  they 
  became 
  prominent. 
  In 
  1708 
  the 
  son 
  brought 
  12 
  

   of 
  the 
  Far 
  Indians 
  to 
  trade 
  at 
  Albany; 
  they 
  had 
  come 
  800 
  miles. 
  

   There 
  may 
  have 
  been 
  several 
  families 
  of 
  this 
  name. 
  Joncaire 
  

   killed 
  the 
  original 
  Montour 
  in 
  1721 
  by 
  Vaudreuil's 
  order. 
  

  

  