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  NEW 
  YORK 
  STATE 
  MUSEUM 
  

  

  At 
  this 
  council 
  the 
  chiefs 
  said 
  the 
  New 
  York 
  colony 
  was 
  like 
  a 
  

   great 
  ship 
  moored 
  to 
  an 
  elmtree. 
  Because 
  the 
  tree 
  was 
  perish- 
  

   able, 
  the 
  anchor 
  was 
  carried 
  behind 
  the 
  great 
  hill 
  at 
  Onondaga, 
  

   where 
  they 
  would 
  always 
  care 
  for 
  it. 
  This 
  figure 
  was 
  often 
  

   used. 
  They 
  refused 
  to 
  sell 
  land 
  south 
  of 
  Lake 
  Ontario, 
  for, 
  

   wherever 
  the 
  whites 
  settled, 
  the 
  deer 
  and 
  beaver 
  disappeared. 
  

   Irondequoit 
  was 
  in 
  the 
  Seneca 
  country, 
  and 
  they 
  could 
  not 
  sell 
  

   other 
  men's 
  lands. 
  

  

  In 
  1738 
  Clarke 
  had 
  prevented 
  the 
  establishment 
  of 
  a 
  French 
  

   post, 
  and 
  had 
  sent 
  an 
  interpreter, 
  a 
  smith 
  and 
  three 
  others 
  to 
  

   live 
  with 
  the 
  Senecas. 
  In 
  the 
  south 
  the 
  Iroquois 
  had 
  attacked 
  

   the 
  Catawbas 
  east 
  of 
  the 
  mountains. 
  

  

  In 
  1739 
  Indians 
  brought 
  word 
  that 
  30 
  boats, 
  with 
  120 
  French- 
  

   men, 
  were 
  going 
  from 
  Crown 
  Point 
  to 
  Wood 
  creek 
  to 
  form 
  a 
  

   settlement 
  there. 
  They 
  now 
  claimed 
  all 
  land 
  to 
  the 
  sources 
  of 
  

   streams 
  tributary 
  to 
  the 
  St 
  Lawrence, 
  but 
  would 
  give 
  a 
  deed 
  of 
  

   gift 
  to 
  the 
  Mohawks 
  of 
  the 
  land 
  from 
  Crown 
  Point 
  to 
  the 
  portage 
  

   as 
  a 
  hunting 
  ground. 
  The 
  claim 
  was 
  that 
  of 
  conquest. 
  

  

  In 
  July 
  a 
  party 
  of 
  French 
  and 
  Indians 
  went 
  to 
  attack 
  the 
  

   Cherokees 
  and 
  others 
  in 
  Carolina 
  and 
  Georgia. 
  The 
  Iroquois 
  

   chiefs 
  were 
  unable 
  to 
  keep 
  some 
  young 
  Mohawks 
  from 
  joining 
  

   them, 
  and 
  others 
  favored 
  these 
  parties. 
  The 
  French 
  Indians 
  

   often 
  passed 
  through 
  New 
  York 
  on 
  these 
  southern 
  forays, 
  mark- 
  

   ing 
  their 
  camps 
  with 
  pictures 
  and 
  crosses. 
  The 
  Iroquois 
  said 
  

   they 
  would 
  not 
  make 
  peace 
  with 
  the 
  Catawbas 
  and 
  Cherokees 
  

   till 
  they 
  asked 
  for 
  it. 
  

  

  Lieutenant 
  Governor 
  Clarke 
  held 
  a 
  council 
  with 
  the 
  Six 
  Nations 
  

   Aug. 
  16, 
  1740, 
  smallpox 
  having 
  prevented 
  the 
  annual 
  council 
  

   the 
  year 
  before. 
  He 
  admitted 
  all 
  nations 
  under 
  English 
  pro- 
  

   tection 
  into 
  the 
  covenant 
  chain, 
  both 
  southward 
  and 
  westward 
  

   as 
  far 
  as 
  the 
  Mississippi, 
  and 
  had 
  heard 
  of 
  an 
  Onondaga 
  embassy 
  

   to 
  the 
  French 
  the 
  last 
  summer. 
  They 
  said 
  they 
  had 
  been 
  there 
  

   for 
  the 
  advantage 
  of 
  all. 
  The 
  belt 
  given 
  to 
  bind 
  them 
  to 
  the 
  

   southern 
  Indians 
  was 
  accepted 
  and 
  would 
  be 
  kept 
  at 
  Onon- 
  

   daga. 
  The 
  hatchet 
  against 
  Spain 
  was 
  refused, 
  as 
  they 
  were 
  not 
  a 
  

   people 
  to 
  cross 
  the 
  sea, 
  and 
  the 
  Flatheads 
  must 
  ask 
  for 
  peace. 
  

  

  