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  NEW 
  YORK 
  STATE 
  MUSEUM 
  

  

  The 
  Canada 
  Indians 
  promised 
  not 
  to 
  war 
  on 
  Massachusetts, 
  

   and 
  the 
  Five 
  Nations 
  threatened 
  to 
  compel 
  the 
  eastern 
  Indians 
  

   to 
  be 
  quiet. 
  The 
  English 
  captured 
  40 
  Abenaquis 
  and 
  placed 
  

   them 
  among 
  the 
  Iroquois, 
  and 
  the 
  latter 
  sent 
  two 
  of 
  them, 
  under 
  

   guard, 
  to 
  treat 
  for 
  peace. 
  The 
  Abenaquis 
  were 
  away, 
  and 
  the 
  

   messengers 
  left 
  suitable 
  tokens, 
  but 
  there 
  were 
  misunderstandings 
  

   and 
  hostilities 
  increased. 
  Father 
  Rasle 
  was 
  soon 
  after 
  killed, 
  

   and 
  the 
  Iroquois 
  promised 
  not 
  to 
  make 
  war 
  on 
  the 
  Abenaquis, 
  

   who 
  greatly 
  feared 
  them. 
  Governor 
  Vaudreuil 
  then 
  sent 
  Jon- 
  

   caire 
  to 
  winter 
  among 
  the 
  Senecas 
  and 
  proposed 
  sending 
  - 
  De 
  

   Longueuil 
  to 
  Onondaga. 
  He 
  now 
  forbade 
  the 
  connection 
  of 
  

   trading 
  posts 
  with 
  missions. 
  

  

  The 
  Six 
  Nations 
  tried 
  to 
  make 
  peace 
  between 
  the 
  Canadian 
  

   Indians 
  and 
  New 
  England, 
  but 
  the 
  former 
  refused. 
  On 
  this 
  ques- 
  

   tion 
  they 
  conferred 
  with 
  the 
  governor 
  of 
  Massachusetts 
  at 
  Albany 
  

   in 
  September 
  1724. 
  At 
  the 
  same 
  time 
  they 
  held 
  a 
  council 
  with 
  

   Governor 
  Burnet. 
  He 
  had 
  kept 
  a 
  smith 
  and 
  some 
  young 
  men 
  in 
  

   the 
  Seneca 
  country 
  for 
  two 
  years 
  and 
  heard 
  they 
  had 
  a 
  good 
  

   house. 
  He 
  found 
  others 
  willing 
  to 
  live 
  among 
  the 
  Onondagas, 
  

   and 
  would 
  build 
  a 
  house 
  at 
  the 
  mouth 
  of 
  their 
  river. 
  This 
  led 
  to 
  

   a 
  fuller 
  examination 
  of 
  Wood 
  creek 
  and 
  the 
  Oneida 
  carrying 
  

   place. 
  

  

  Chapter 
  15 
  

  

  Fort 
  at 
  Oswego. 
  Trust 
  deed 
  of 
  residence 
  land. 
  Shikellimy 
  viceroy 
  in 
  

   Pennsylvania. 
  French 
  at 
  Onondaga. 
  French 
  fort 
  at 
  Crown 
  Point. 
  

   Pennsylvania 
  and 
  the 
  Six 
  Nations. 
  Their 
  council. 
  Weiser 
  and 
  Shikel- 
  

   limy. 
  Council 
  at 
  Stenton. 
  Iroquois 
  claims. 
  Their 
  numbers. 
  Albany 
  

   council. 
  French 
  claims 
  in 
  New 
  York. 
  War 
  against 
  Southern 
  Indians. 
  

   Joncaires. 
  Blacksmiths. 
  

  

  The 
  lucid 
  papers 
  of 
  Cadwallader 
  Colden, 
  in 
  1724, 
  helped 
  the 
  

   founding 
  of 
  Oswego, 
  a 
  situation 
  which 
  Governor 
  Burnet 
  pre- 
  

   ferred 
  to 
  Oneida 
  lake. 
  Dekanissora 
  was 
  still 
  speaker 
  and 
  was 
  

   to 
  advise 
  with 
  Burnet 
  on 
  all 
  matters 
  of 
  importance. 
  

  

  In 
  1725 
  the 
  Iroquois 
  of 
  the 
  Sault 
  and 
  of 
  the 
  Two 
  Mountains 
  

   sent 
  word 
  to 
  the 
  Six 
  Nations 
  that, 
  if 
  they 
  allowed 
  an 
  English 
  

   fort 
  at 
  Oswego, 
  they 
  would 
  make 
  war 
  on 
  them, 
  but 
  thought 
  bet- 
  

   ter 
  of 
  this. 
  The 
  English 
  started 
  their 
  expedition 
  in 
  March, 
  but 
  

  

  