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  NEW 
  YORK 
  STATE 
  MUSEUM 
  

  

  A 
  council 
  was 
  held 
  with 
  the 
  Iroquois 
  at 
  Albany 
  Sep. 
  20, 
  1714. 
  

   They 
  had 
  heard 
  the 
  southern 
  colonies 
  intended 
  cutting 
  them 
  

   off, 
  which 
  they 
  would 
  not 
  believe 
  were 
  powder 
  cheaper, 
  but 
  on 
  

   this 
  they 
  had 
  recalled 
  a 
  war 
  party 
  of 
  40 
  Senecas 
  and 
  100 
  Onon- 
  

   dagas. 
  The 
  governor 
  denied 
  the 
  report, 
  but 
  would 
  try 
  to 
  have 
  

   powder 
  cheaper, 
  giving 
  them 
  handsome 
  presents 
  and 
  beer 
  to 
  

   drink 
  the 
  queen's 
  health. 
  Dekanissora 
  promised 
  to 
  send 
  expresses 
  

   to 
  all 
  the 
  nations 
  to 
  tell 
  them 
  there 
  was 
  no 
  truth 
  in 
  the 
  report. 
  They 
  

   said 
  the 
  warriors 
  were 
  young 
  men, 
  and 
  it 
  would 
  depend 
  on 
  them 
  

   whether 
  they 
  buried 
  the 
  hatchet 
  against 
  the 
  Flatheads. 
  They 
  had 
  

   no 
  good 
  clothes 
  to 
  wear 
  to 
  church, 
  and 
  deferred 
  the 
  missionary 
  ques- 
  

   tion 
  till 
  goods 
  were 
  cheaper 
  and 
  they 
  could 
  go 
  well 
  dressed. 
  The 
  

   Senecas 
  wished 
  a 
  smith 
  at 
  a 
  hamlet 
  between 
  them 
  and 
  the 
  Cayugas. 
  

   The 
  Tuscaroras 
  now 
  lived 
  among 
  them, 
  though 
  a 
  few 
  remained 
  

   south, 
  and 
  Governor 
  Hunter 
  was 
  to 
  look 
  on 
  them 
  as 
  their 
  chil- 
  

   dren, 
  who 
  would 
  live 
  peaceably 
  between 
  Onondaga 
  and 
  Oneida. 
  

   A 
  tract 
  had 
  been 
  assigned 
  them 
  in 
  what 
  is 
  now 
  Madison 
  county. 
  

  

  In 
  1715 
  the 
  French 
  were 
  still 
  intriguing, 
  and 
  there 
  were 
  idle 
  

   stories 
  of 
  an 
  intended 
  French 
  fort 
  at 
  Onondaga. 
  These 
  troubled 
  

   those 
  in 
  power 
  only 
  as 
  it 
  might 
  affect 
  trade, 
  for 
  the 
  traders 
  

   then 
  cared 
  more 
  for 
  private 
  profit 
  than 
  the 
  public 
  good. 
  Gov- 
  

   ernor 
  Hunter 
  tried 
  to 
  have 
  the 
  Five 
  Nations 
  go 
  against 
  those 
  

   Indians 
  in 
  Carolina 
  who 
  had 
  attacked 
  the 
  English 
  there, 
  and 
  

   said 
  the 
  friendly 
  Indians 
  on 
  the 
  Susquehanna 
  had 
  brought 
  home 
  

   30 
  prisoners. 
  He 
  was 
  not 
  aware 
  that 
  the 
  war 
  was 
  over. 
  

  

  At 
  a 
  council 
  in 
  Albany 
  Aug. 
  2.7, 
  1715, 
  Dekanissora 
  returned 
  

   the 
  unfortunate 
  hatchet 
  given 
  him 
  against 
  Canada, 
  and 
  they 
  

   must 
  never 
  give 
  so 
  poor 
  a 
  one 
  again. 
  If 
  used, 
  it 
  must 
  be 
  new 
  

   steeled. 
  They 
  would 
  close 
  the 
  southern 
  warpath, 
  though 
  war- 
  

   riors 
  were 
  still 
  out. 
  Their 
  story 
  about 
  southern 
  troubles 
  dif- 
  

   fered 
  from 
  that 
  of 
  the 
  English, 
  who 
  had 
  the 
  Flatheads 
  or 
  Cataw- 
  

   bas 
  help 
  them 
  there 
  against 
  the 
  Tuscaroras. 
  The 
  Catawbas 
  

   were 
  faithless 
  and 
  ought 
  to 
  be 
  conquered 
  themselves. 
  They 
  

   lamented 
  the 
  death 
  of 
  Queen 
  Anne, 
  and 
  afterward 
  sent 
  mes- 
  

   sengers 
  south. 
  

  

  De 
  Longueuil 
  was 
  at 
  Onondaga 
  in 
  1716 
  and 
  thought 
  a 
  fort 
  

  

  