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  NEW 
  YORK 
  STATE 
  MUSEUM 
  

  

  by 
  40 
  feet. 
  The 
  Senecas 
  at 
  first 
  objected, 
  but 
  at 
  last 
  allowed 
  it. 
  

   They 
  did 
  not 
  claim 
  full 
  jurisdiction 
  at 
  Niagara, 
  as 
  it 
  was 
  not 
  

   theirs 
  originally 
  and 
  was 
  conquered 
  by 
  all. 
  He 
  would 
  not 
  take 
  

   a 
  belt 
  to 
  Onondaga, 
  being 
  in 
  Albany 
  only 
  as 
  a 
  private 
  person. 
  

   At 
  this 
  time 
  the 
  French 
  tried 
  to 
  have 
  Madame 
  Montour 
  settle 
  

   in 
  Canada. 
  

  

  In 
  May 
  1720 
  Myndert 
  Schuyler 
  and 
  Robert 
  Livingston 
  jr 
  

   went 
  to 
  the 
  Senecas 
  to 
  desire 
  them 
  to 
  bury 
  the 
  hatchet 
  against 
  

   all 
  Indians 
  allied 
  to 
  the 
  English 
  and 
  to 
  remonstrate 
  against 
  the 
  

   Niagara 
  fort. 
  The 
  Senecas 
  said 
  they 
  would 
  await 
  the 
  Far 
  

   Indians 
  who 
  were 
  said 
  to 
  be 
  coming 
  against 
  them, 
  and 
  would 
  

   send 
  sachems 
  with 
  Lawrence 
  Claese 
  to 
  forbid 
  the 
  fort 
  at 
  Niagara. 
  

   The 
  three 
  Frenchmen 
  there 
  said 
  they 
  had 
  leave 
  from 
  the 
  young 
  

   Seneca 
  warriors 
  and 
  would 
  not 
  destroy 
  the 
  house 
  without 
  orders 
  

   from 
  Canada. 
  The 
  chiefs 
  knew 
  of 
  no 
  such 
  leave. 
  On 
  his 
  return 
  

   Claese 
  met 
  a 
  French 
  smith, 
  sent 
  to 
  Niagara 
  to 
  work 
  for 
  the 
  Senecas 
  

   gratis. 
  Claese 
  called 
  the 
  Seneca 
  sachems 
  together 
  again 
  and 
  

   repeated 
  his 
  words 
  before 
  Joncaire, 
  who 
  made 
  a 
  retort. 
  

  

  Messengers 
  came 
  to 
  Albany 
  in 
  August 
  from 
  all 
  but 
  the 
  Sen- 
  

   ecas. 
  Joncaire 
  had 
  been 
  among 
  them 
  to 
  keep 
  them 
  at 
  home, 
  

   telling 
  them 
  that, 
  if 
  the 
  English 
  destroyed 
  this 
  house, 
  it 
  would 
  

   cost 
  blood, 
  and 
  they 
  believed 
  him. 
  The 
  other 
  nations 
  thought 
  

   it 
  a 
  damage. 
  Dekanissora 
  jr, 
  a 
  Cayuga 
  chief, 
  thought 
  the 
  Eng- 
  

   lish 
  ells 
  should 
  be 
  longer 
  and 
  their 
  pounds 
  heavier. 
  If 
  well 
  

   provisioned 
  for 
  their 
  home 
  journey, 
  the 
  Christians' 
  cattle 
  would 
  

   not 
  suffer, 
  but 
  hunger 
  was 
  a 
  sharp 
  sword. 
  

  

  Hendrick, 
  the 
  Mohawk, 
  having 
  been 
  suspended 
  as 
  a 
  sachem 
  

   four 
  years 
  before, 
  was 
  restored. 
  He 
  said 
  the 
  Indians 
  could 
  not 
  

   live 
  peaceably 
  in 
  their 
  castles 
  as 
  long 
  as 
  rum 
  was 
  so 
  plenty. 
  

   He 
  and 
  Brandt 
  had 
  been 
  to 
  England 
  some 
  years 
  before, 
  as 
  

   Mohawk 
  kings. 
  

  

  Governor 
  Burnet 
  thought 
  the 
  Indian 
  trade 
  could 
  be 
  preserved 
  

   by 
  repairing 
  the 
  forts, 
  building 
  others 
  at 
  Niagara 
  and 
  Onondaga, 
  

   and 
  forbidding 
  the 
  carrying 
  of 
  Indian 
  goods 
  to 
  Canada. 
  The 
  

   French 
  claimed 
  that 
  the 
  English 
  had 
  proposed 
  settling 
  at 
  Niagara 
  

   and 
  taking 
  horses 
  there. 
  This 
  led 
  to 
  the 
  French 
  post, 
  and 
  Jon- 
  

  

  