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  NEW 
  YORK 
  STATE 
  MUSEUM 
  

  

  sent 
  to 
  Messrs 
  Wendell, 
  Hansen 
  and 
  others, 
  then 
  in 
  the 
  Seneca 
  

   country. 
  At 
  the 
  same 
  time 
  the 
  Fox 
  Indians 
  sent 
  two 
  red 
  stone 
  

   axes 
  to 
  the 
  young 
  Senecas, 
  which 
  Joncaire 
  forwarded 
  to 
  Canada, 
  

   saying 
  they 
  were 
  a 
  request 
  that 
  the 
  Foxes 
  might 
  live 
  with 
  them. 
  

  

  In 
  the 
  spring 
  of 
  the 
  same 
  year 
  Jacob 
  Brower, 
  a 
  trader, 
  was 
  

   murdered 
  at 
  Oswego 
  Falls. 
  The 
  Indians 
  made 
  satisfaction 
  and 
  

   testified 
  that 
  he 
  was 
  duly 
  interred. 
  

  

  In 
  the 
  fall 
  Governor 
  de 
  Beauharnois, 
  hearing 
  that 
  the 
  English 
  

   were 
  going 
  to 
  Lake 
  Champlain 
  to 
  trade, 
  sent 
  men 
  to 
  drive 
  them 
  

   off, 
  but 
  they 
  found 
  no 
  one 
  there. 
  In 
  1731 
  he 
  proposed 
  building 
  

   a 
  fort 
  at 
  Crown 
  Point, 
  where 
  the 
  English 
  built 
  and 
  abandoned 
  

   one 
  in 
  1 
  1709. 
  The 
  English 
  had 
  already 
  placed 
  farmers 
  among 
  

   the 
  Mohawks 
  and 
  Oneidas, 
  and 
  had 
  a 
  good 
  road 
  from 
  the 
  Mo- 
  

   hawk 
  river 
  to 
  Oneida 
  lake. 
  It 
  was 
  thought 
  there 
  would 
  soon 
  be 
  

   a 
  town 
  at 
  Oswego. 
  

  

  Fort 
  St 
  Frederick 
  was 
  built 
  at 
  Crown 
  Point. 
  Joncaire 
  was 
  

   employed 
  among 
  the 
  Senecas, 
  but 
  was 
  sent 
  to 
  the 
  Shawnees 
  on 
  

   the 
  Ohio. 
  About 
  this 
  time 
  Iroquois 
  parties 
  were 
  out 
  against 
  

   the 
  Foxes 
  in 
  Wisconsin. 
  

  

  Iroquois 
  relations 
  with 
  Pennsylvania 
  increased 
  in 
  importance, 
  

   and 
  in 
  August 
  Governor 
  Keith 
  said 
  there 
  was 
  an 
  opportunity 
  

   " 
  of 
  sending 
  a 
  Message 
  to 
  the 
  Six 
  (formerly 
  called 
  the 
  Five) 
  

   Nations 
  by 
  Shekellamy, 
  who 
  is 
  willing 
  to 
  undertake 
  it, 
  & 
  is 
  a 
  

   truly 
  good 
  Man 
  & 
  a 
  great 
  Lover 
  of 
  the 
  English." 
  A 
  present 
  

   and 
  an 
  invitation 
  to 
  visit 
  Philadelphia 
  were 
  sent. 
  In 
  December 
  

   lie 
  returned 
  from 
  the 
  Senecas. 
  to 
  whom 
  a 
  covenant 
  belt 
  was 
  

   delivered 
  at 
  a 
  council. 
  Conrad 
  Weiser 
  was 
  now 
  official 
  inter- 
  

   preter 
  for 
  the 
  province, 
  and 
  gave 
  warning 
  that 
  there 
  would 
  be 
  

   trouble 
  with 
  the 
  Six 
  Nations 
  if 
  the 
  liquor 
  trade 
  were 
  not 
  better 
  

   regulated. 
  He 
  had 
  been 
  adopted 
  by 
  the 
  Mohawks 
  and 
  spoke 
  

   their 
  language. 
  

  

  The 
  Seneca, 
  Oneida 
  and 
  Cayuga 
  chiefs 
  came 
  to 
  Philadelphia 
  

   in 
  August 
  1732, 
  and 
  ordered 
  the 
  Shawnees 
  to 
  return 
  east, 
  having 
  

   absolute 
  power 
  over 
  them. 
  They 
  were 
  coming 
  too 
  much 
  under 
  

   French 
  influence 
  and 
  refused 
  to 
  obey, 
  killing 
  some 
  Iroquois. 
  

   The 
  offenders 
  fled, 
  and 
  the 
  Iroquois 
  were 
  afterward 
  pacified 
  with 
  

  

  