﻿HISTORY 
  OF 
  THE 
  NEW 
  YORK 
  IROQUOIS 
  273 
  

  

  Governor 
  Montgomerie 
  succeeded 
  Governor 
  Burnet 
  Ap. 
  15, 
  

   1728, 
  and 
  had 
  a 
  conference 
  with 
  the 
  Iroquois 
  on 
  the 
  rum 
  ques- 
  

   tion. 
  It 
  might 
  be 
  sold 
  but 
  not 
  brought 
  to 
  their 
  towns. 
  

  

  That 
  year 
  Chauvignerie 
  went 
  on 
  an 
  embassy 
  to 
  Onondaga, 
  

   then 
  in 
  Onondaga 
  valley. 
  The 
  sachems 
  met 
  him 
  on 
  the 
  lake 
  

   three 
  leagues 
  from 
  Oswego, 
  and 
  told 
  him 
  he 
  must 
  fire 
  the 
  first 
  

   salute 
  and 
  lower 
  his 
  flag 
  when 
  he 
  passed 
  the 
  fort. 
  He 
  refused 
  

   and 
  asked 
  whose 
  land 
  it 
  was. 
  The 
  Onondagas 
  said 
  it 
  belonged 
  

   to 
  them. 
  He 
  landed, 
  pitched 
  his 
  tent, 
  but 
  refused 
  to 
  enter 
  the 
  

   fort 
  or 
  to 
  strike 
  his 
  flag, 
  which 
  he 
  kept 
  up 
  night 
  and 
  day 
  while 
  

   he 
  stayed. 
  No 
  salutes 
  were 
  exchanged, 
  and 
  he 
  would 
  not 
  allow 
  

   an 
  Onondaga 
  to 
  carry 
  the 
  British 
  flag 
  over 
  his 
  canoe. 
  Jlalf 
  a 
  

   league 
  from 
  Onondaga 
  the 
  chiefs 
  met 
  him, 
  and 
  he 
  marched 
  in 
  

   under 
  the 
  French 
  flag, 
  placing 
  it 
  over 
  Ononwaragon's 
  cabin. 
  He 
  

   employed 
  chiefs 
  to 
  bewail 
  that 
  chief's 
  death, 
  that 
  of 
  his 
  nephew 
  

   and 
  of 
  the 
  Onondagas 
  generally. 
  

  

  To 
  counteract 
  the 
  effect 
  of 
  the 
  Oswego 
  post, 
  the 
  French 
  voy- 
  

   ageurs 
  were 
  ordered 
  to 
  take 
  the 
  north 
  shore 
  of 
  the 
  lake, 
  and 
  it 
  was 
  

   desirable 
  to 
  have 
  a 
  post 
  at 
  the 
  Bay 
  of 
  the 
  Cayugas, 
  8 
  or 
  9 
  leagues 
  

   west 
  of 
  Oswego. 
  

  

  In 
  1728 
  the 
  Council 
  at 
  Philadelphia 
  thought 
  " 
  that 
  as 
  the 
  Five 
  

   Nations 
  have 
  an 
  absolute 
  Authority 
  over 
  all 
  our 
  Indians, 
  and 
  

   may 
  command 
  them 
  as 
  they 
  please, 
  it 
  is 
  of 
  great 
  importance 
  to 
  

   Remove 
  any 
  Impressions 
  that 
  have 
  been 
  made 
  upon 
  them 
  to 
  the 
  

   prejudice 
  of 
  the 
  English, 
  and 
  that 
  by 
  all 
  means 
  'tis 
  necessary 
  

   they 
  should 
  be 
  spoken 
  with." 
  

  

  It 
  was 
  noted 
  that 
  Shikellimy 
  had 
  been 
  appointed 
  by 
  the 
  Five 
  

   Nations 
  to 
  reside 
  among 
  the 
  Shawnees. 
  At 
  a 
  conference 
  in 
  

   Philadelphia 
  Oct. 
  10, 
  the 
  old 
  Delaware 
  chief, 
  Sassoonan, 
  said 
  : 
  

  

  The 
  Five 
  Nations 
  had 
  often 
  told 
  them 
  that 
  they 
  were 
  as 
  

   Women 
  only, 
  & 
  desired 
  them 
  to 
  plant 
  Corn 
  & 
  mind 
  their 
  own 
  

   private 
  Business, 
  for 
  that 
  they 
  would 
  take 
  Care 
  of 
  what 
  related 
  

   to 
  Peace 
  & 
  War, 
  & 
  that 
  therefore 
  they 
  have 
  ever 
  had 
  good 
  & 
  

   peaceable 
  Thoughts 
  towards 
  us. 
  

  

  In 
  1730 
  Joncaire 
  told 
  the 
  Senecas 
  that 
  he 
  had 
  been 
  expelled 
  

  

  from 
  the 
  French 
  service 
  and 
  asked 
  leave 
  to 
  build 
  a 
  trading 
  house 
  

  

  of 
  his 
  own 
  at 
  Irondequoit 
  bay. 
  Instructions 
  against 
  this 
  were 
  

  

  