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  NEW 
  YORK 
  STATE 
  MUSEUM 
  

  

  Durant 
  met 
  the 
  latter 
  and 
  Chauvignerie 
  above 
  Oswego 
  Falls, 
  

   and 
  he 
  said 
  four 
  nations 
  had 
  given 
  him 
  good 
  words. 
  These 
  falls 
  

   had 
  the 
  same 
  Indian 
  name 
  as 
  those 
  on 
  the 
  Genesee 
  river, 
  and 
  this 
  

   has 
  caused 
  some 
  confusion 
  of 
  places. 
  

  

  Governor 
  Burnet 
  held 
  a 
  council 
  with 
  the 
  Six 
  Nations, 
  Sep. 
  7, 
  

   1721. 
  The 
  Virginia 
  Indians 
  had 
  proposed 
  that 
  the 
  Potomac 
  river 
  

   and 
  the 
  high 
  mountains 
  westward 
  should 
  be 
  the 
  dividing 
  line 
  for 
  

   their 
  hunting 
  parties, 
  neither 
  passing 
  beyond 
  without 
  permission. 
  

   The 
  Iroquois 
  agreed 
  to 
  this 
  boundary. 
  The 
  governor 
  had 
  been 
  

   told 
  that, 
  since 
  the 
  Virginia 
  belt 
  came, 
  some 
  of 
  the 
  Iroquois 
  had 
  

   gone 
  with 
  French 
  Indians 
  against 
  those 
  of 
  Virginia, 
  a 
  frequent 
  

   practice. 
  

  

  This 
  month, 
  also, 
  Peter 
  Schuyler 
  jr 
  was 
  sent 
  to 
  the 
  Seneca 
  

   country 
  with 
  a 
  party 
  of 
  young 
  men, 
  who 
  were 
  willing 
  to 
  stay 
  

   and 
  trade 
  there 
  for 
  a 
  year. 
  Their 
  house 
  was 
  at 
  Irondequoit, 
  

   and 
  they 
  were 
  not 
  to 
  trade 
  with 
  the 
  Indians 
  farther 
  east 
  but 
  

   with 
  any 
  of 
  those 
  west. 
  They 
  were 
  also 
  to 
  encourage 
  the 
  French 
  

   coureurs 
  de 
  bois 
  to 
  bring 
  their 
  furs 
  to 
  the 
  English, 
  they 
  being 
  

   willing 
  if 
  protected. 
  

  

  Another 
  council 
  was 
  held 
  at 
  Albany 
  Aug. 
  2y, 
  1722. 
  The 
  Iro- 
  

   quois 
  had 
  done 
  as 
  they 
  agreed 
  last 
  year, 
  sending 
  messengers 
  to 
  

   the 
  Far 
  Indians 
  to 
  come 
  and 
  trade. 
  Blew 
  Bek, 
  chief 
  sachem 
  of 
  

   the 
  Senecas, 
  had 
  been 
  to 
  Canada 
  with 
  others 
  and 
  was 
  coming 
  to 
  

   Albany 
  to 
  tell 
  what 
  the 
  French 
  said. 
  Three 
  companies 
  of 
  their 
  

   people 
  had 
  gone 
  against 
  the 
  Flatheads. 
  The 
  governor 
  of 
  Vir- 
  

   ginia 
  was 
  present 
  and 
  promised 
  that 
  the 
  10 
  nations 
  of 
  Virginia 
  

   should 
  not 
  pass 
  the 
  line, 
  and 
  the 
  Iroquois 
  promised 
  the 
  same 
  for 
  

   themselves, 
  the 
  Tuscaroras 
  and 
  for 
  four 
  nations 
  on 
  the 
  Sus- 
  

   quehanna. 
  He 
  gave 
  them 
  a 
  golden 
  horseshoe 
  as 
  a 
  passport 
  

   when 
  they 
  wished 
  to 
  send 
  to 
  him. 
  

  

  Governor 
  Keith, 
  of 
  Pennsylvania, 
  also 
  conferred 
  with 
  them, 
  

   and 
  they 
  called 
  him 
  Onas, 
  meaning 
  a 
  pen. 
  Two 
  chiefs 
  of 
  each 
  

   of 
  the 
  Five 
  Nations 
  and 
  two 
  of 
  the 
  Tuscaroras 
  had 
  a 
  special 
  

   conference 
  with 
  him 
  Sep. 
  14. 
  They 
  freely 
  surrendered 
  to 
  him 
  

   the 
  lands 
  about 
  Conestoga 
  and 
  renewed 
  former 
  treaties. 
  He 
  told 
  

   the 
  other 
  governors 
  that 
  the 
  Conestogas 
  spoke 
  the 
  same 
  language 
  

  

  