﻿HISTORY 
  OF 
  THE 
  NEW 
  YORK 
  IROQUOIS 
  277 
  

  

  estimates 
  are 
  in 
  marked 
  contrast 
  with 
  the 
  larger 
  ones 
  of 
  others. 
  

   At 
  Montreal 
  he 
  distinguished 
  between 
  the 
  Iroquois 
  and 
  others 
  

   there. 
  Of 
  the 
  former 
  there 
  were 
  366 
  warriors, 
  and 
  at 
  Toniata 
  

   there 
  were 
  10 
  more. 
  In 
  New 
  York 
  the 
  Onondagas 
  had 
  200 
  war- 
  

   riors, 
  the 
  Mohawks 
  80, 
  the 
  Oneidas 
  100, 
  the 
  Cayugas 
  120, 
  the 
  

   Senecas 
  350, 
  and 
  the 
  Tuscaroras 
  250. 
  There 
  were 
  a 
  few 
  Iro- 
  

   quois 
  at 
  Niagara, 
  and 
  he 
  did 
  not 
  report 
  those 
  in 
  Pennsylvania 
  

   and 
  Ohio. 
  

  

  There 
  was 
  continual 
  trouble 
  between 
  the 
  Iroquois 
  and 
  the 
  

   southern 
  and 
  western 
  Indians, 
  and 
  Weiser 
  and 
  Shikellimy 
  were 
  

   sent 
  to 
  Onondaga 
  about 
  this 
  in 
  February 
  1737, 
  arriving 
  there 
  in 
  

   April. 
  Weiser 
  nearly 
  perished 
  on 
  the 
  way. 
  The 
  governor 
  of 
  Vir- 
  

   ginia 
  wanted 
  the 
  Iroquois 
  chiefs 
  to 
  come 
  to 
  Williamsburg 
  and 
  

   there 
  treat 
  of 
  peace 
  with 
  the 
  Catawbas 
  and 
  Cherokees, 
  but 
  they 
  

   refused, 
  yet 
  agreed 
  to 
  a 
  year's 
  truce. 
  Weiser 
  returned 
  in 
  the 
  

   spring. 
  Parties 
  were 
  out, 
  ignorant 
  of 
  the 
  truce, 
  and 
  the 
  Iro- 
  

   quois 
  killed 
  three 
  Catawba 
  hunters 
  and 
  some 
  horses. 
  Since 
  

   April 
  eight 
  others 
  had 
  been 
  killed, 
  and 
  the 
  Catawbas 
  said 
  these 
  

   ought 
  to 
  be 
  avenged 
  before 
  peace 
  was 
  made. 
  The 
  Cherokees 
  

   had 
  met 
  an 
  Iroquois 
  party 
  and 
  sent 
  peace 
  deputies. 
  The 
  Iro- 
  

   quois 
  were 
  advised 
  to 
  make 
  peace 
  with 
  both. 
  

  

  Lieutenant 
  Governor 
  Clarke 
  had 
  a 
  conference 
  at 
  Albany 
  with 
  

   the 
  Six 
  Nations 
  in 
  June 
  1737. 
  After 
  condoling 
  some 
  deaths, 
  

   according 
  to 
  custom, 
  they 
  said 
  Clarke 
  spoke 
  roughly 
  to 
  them 
  

   and 
  they 
  would 
  answer 
  in 
  the 
  same 
  way. 
  He 
  had 
  reproved 
  

   them 
  for 
  letting 
  the 
  French 
  come 
  to 
  Irondequoit 
  ; 
  how 
  came 
  they 
  

   at 
  Crown 
  Point, 
  which 
  was 
  English 
  land? 
  The 
  English 
  had 
  

   heard 
  that 
  the 
  Senecas 
  and 
  Cayugas 
  had 
  sold 
  their 
  Susquehanna 
  

   lands, 
  on 
  which 
  the 
  Shawnees 
  lived, 
  and 
  they 
  might 
  go 
  to 
  De- 
  

   troit, 
  which 
  the 
  English 
  did 
  not 
  like. 
  They 
  replied 
  that 
  they 
  

   had 
  sold 
  but 
  a 
  small 
  piece, 
  a 
  great 
  way 
  from 
  the 
  Shawnees. 
  The 
  

   trouble 
  was 
  between 
  them 
  and 
  Pennsylvania, 
  but 
  they 
  would 
  

   try 
  to 
  prevent 
  their 
  removal. 
  

  

  On 
  the 
  general 
  question 
  of 
  Susquehanna 
  lands, 
  Canassatego 
  

   had 
  once 
  said 
  that 
  the 
  Susquehannas 
  had 
  a 
  right 
  to 
  sell 
  their 
  

   lands 
  till 
  they 
  were 
  conquered 
  in 
  1677. 
  Their 
  title 
  then 
  ceased. 
  

  

  