﻿HISTORY 
  OF 
  THE 
  NEW 
  YORK 
  IROQUOIS 
  265 
  

  

  necessary 
  at 
  Niagara. 
  Preliminary 
  to 
  this, 
  a 
  French 
  trading- 
  

   house 
  was 
  built 
  that 
  year 
  at 
  Irondequoit, 
  but 
  the 
  goods 
  came 
  

   from 
  Albany 
  by 
  way 
  of 
  Montreal. 
  Two 
  wooden 
  houses 
  were 
  

   also 
  built 
  at 
  Albany 
  for 
  the 
  use 
  of 
  the 
  Indians. 
  They 
  were 
  ioo 
  

   yards 
  behind 
  the 
  fort 
  and 
  each 
  was 
  15 
  by 
  70 
  feet. 
  

  

  The 
  Five 
  Nations 
  called 
  the 
  Catawbas 
  Toderichroone, 
  and 
  

   said 
  they 
  were 
  treacherous, 
  for, 
  after 
  concluding 
  peace 
  in 
  1714, 
  

   they 
  immediately 
  murdered 
  some 
  Iroquois, 
  and 
  war 
  continued. 
  

   In 
  1717 
  a 
  party 
  of 
  400 
  or 
  500 
  young 
  Iroquois 
  went 
  as 
  far 
  as 
  the 
  

   Susquehanna 
  on 
  their 
  way 
  to 
  Virginia. 
  They 
  were 
  persuaded 
  

   to 
  turn 
  westward, 
  but 
  soon 
  resumed 
  their 
  course 
  and 
  attacked 
  

   140 
  Catawbas. 
  The 
  governor 
  at 
  last 
  got 
  Connaughtoora 
  to 
  hold 
  

   a 
  council 
  at 
  Williamsburg. 
  He 
  refused 
  to 
  make 
  peace 
  with 
  the 
  

   Catawbas 
  on 
  any 
  terms, 
  but 
  would 
  not 
  harm 
  the 
  Christianna 
  

   Indians. 
  This 
  war 
  continued 
  till 
  part 
  of 
  the 
  Catawbas 
  were 
  

   adopted. 
  

  

  Governor 
  Vaudreuil 
  held 
  a 
  council 
  with 
  the 
  Senecas 
  Oct. 
  24, 
  

   1717, 
  having 
  sent 
  Joncaire 
  to 
  the 
  Iroquois 
  country 
  in 
  December 
  

   1716. 
  They 
  had 
  attacked 
  the 
  Illinois 
  and 
  made 
  some 
  prisoners. 
  

   Another 
  band 
  went 
  toward 
  the 
  Mississippi 
  but 
  soon 
  returned, 
  

   having 
  lost 
  their 
  captain 
  and 
  others 
  by 
  smallpox. 
  The 
  Senecas 
  

   thought 
  the 
  war 
  should 
  be 
  stopped. 
  Some 
  were 
  suspicious 
  of 
  

   Joncaire, 
  yet, 
  when 
  deputies 
  came 
  from 
  all 
  in 
  September, 
  the 
  

   Onondaga 
  speaker, 
  after 
  having 
  bewailed 
  the 
  French 
  king's 
  

   death, 
  asked 
  Longueuil 
  and 
  his 
  son, 
  Joncaire 
  and 
  Chauvignerie 
  

   to 
  come 
  to 
  their 
  villages 
  freely, 
  they 
  having 
  adopted 
  the 
  last 
  two. 
  

   They 
  feared 
  not 
  to 
  displease 
  the 
  English. 
  

  

  In 
  1718 
  the 
  Iroquois 
  were 
  at 
  peace 
  with 
  the 
  French 
  but 
  at 
  

   war 
  with 
  the 
  Flatheads, 
  and 
  thought 
  the 
  English 
  supplied 
  them 
  

   with 
  arms. 
  Governor 
  Vaudreuil 
  said 
  he 
  was 
  not 
  surprised. 
  At 
  

   that 
  time 
  the 
  Senecas 
  had 
  a 
  village 
  at 
  Niagara, 
  earning 
  a 
  good 
  

   deal 
  as 
  carriers 
  at 
  the 
  portage. 
  A 
  fine 
  cart 
  road 
  there 
  was 
  used 
  

   several 
  times 
  a 
  year. 
  

  

  When 
  Dekanissora 
  was 
  at 
  Albany 
  July 
  6, 
  1719, 
  he 
  said 
  the 
  

   French 
  were 
  building 
  a 
  fort 
  at 
  Niagara, 
  where 
  they 
  would 
  keep 
  

   horses 
  and 
  carts, 
  but 
  did 
  it 
  without 
  leave. 
  The 
  house 
  was 
  30 
  

  

  