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  NEW 
  YORK 
  STATE 
  MUSEUM 
  

  

  His 
  eulogist 
  ends 
  the 
  list 
  of 
  expeditions 
  in 
  which 
  the 
  warlike 
  

   priest 
  was 
  engaged 
  by 
  saying 
  : 
  " 
  M. 
  du 
  Ouesne 
  said 
  that 
  the 
  

   Abbe 
  Picquet 
  was 
  worth 
  more 
  than 
  ten 
  regiments." 
  

  

  Shikellimy 
  died 
  in 
  the 
  winter 
  of 
  1748-49, 
  and 
  his 
  eldest 
  son 
  

   for 
  a 
  time 
  took 
  his 
  place. 
  Some 
  Seneca 
  and 
  Onondaga 
  chiefs 
  

   came 
  to 
  Philadelphia 
  July 
  1, 
  1749, 
  expecting 
  to 
  meet 
  others 
  on 
  

   the 
  road 
  who 
  had 
  not 
  yet 
  arrived. 
  They 
  complained 
  of 
  squat- 
  

   ters 
  on 
  Pennsylvania 
  lands, 
  and 
  were 
  told 
  they 
  had 
  been 
  forcibly 
  

   removed. 
  When 
  they 
  left, 
  they 
  were 
  to 
  tell 
  the 
  coming 
  deputies 
  

   to 
  return, 
  but 
  these 
  arrived 
  Aug. 
  16, 
  with 
  280 
  in 
  the 
  party. 
  They 
  

   proposed 
  sales 
  of 
  land 
  and 
  had 
  placed 
  the 
  Nanticokes 
  at 
  the 
  

   mouth 
  of 
  the 
  Juniata, 
  where 
  others 
  from 
  Maryland 
  would 
  join 
  

   them. 
  The 
  land 
  offered 
  was 
  bought 
  after 
  several 
  conferences 
  

   and 
  the 
  deed 
  duly 
  signed. 
  The 
  Nanticokes 
  and 
  Shawnees 
  were 
  

   willing 
  to 
  go 
  to 
  Schahandoana 
  or 
  Wyoming, 
  and 
  had 
  sent 
  two 
  

   belts 
  to 
  the 
  Six 
  Nations 
  to 
  confirm 
  this. 
  

  

  The 
  French 
  wished 
  to 
  secure 
  the 
  Ohio, 
  and 
  De 
  Celoron 
  went 
  

   there, 
  took 
  possession 
  and 
  expelled 
  the 
  English 
  traders. 
  He 
  was 
  

   at 
  the 
  Chautauqua 
  portage 
  July 
  16, 
  1749, 
  his 
  trip 
  causing 
  much 
  

   excitement. 
  Soon 
  after 
  the 
  Shawnees 
  met 
  the 
  Six 
  Nations 
  at 
  

   Philadelphia, 
  greeted 
  them 
  heartily, 
  and 
  said 
  they 
  were 
  coming 
  

   to 
  live 
  nearer: 
  Peace 
  had 
  been 
  declared, 
  but 
  the 
  French 
  tried 
  

   to 
  have 
  the 
  Iroquois 
  attack 
  the 
  Ottawas 
  after 
  this. 
  They 
  at 
  

   first 
  refused 
  to 
  return 
  Indian 
  prisoners, 
  but 
  yielded 
  at 
  last. 
  

  

  Governor 
  Clinton 
  for 
  a 
  time 
  had 
  all 
  the 
  French 
  prisoners 
  in 
  

   his 
  hands, 
  and 
  kept 
  the 
  Iroquois 
  from 
  sending 
  deputies 
  to 
  Can- 
  

   ada. 
  Before 
  this 
  they 
  had 
  made 
  peace 
  and 
  exchanged 
  prison- 
  

   ers 
  separately. 
  It 
  was 
  necessary 
  to 
  send 
  Arent 
  Stephens 
  to 
  

   Oswego 
  to 
  talk 
  with 
  the 
  western 
  Indians 
  there, 
  lest 
  they 
  should 
  

   think 
  themselves 
  despised. 
  He 
  went 
  first 
  to 
  the 
  Six 
  Nations, 
  

   announced 
  peace 
  and 
  condoled 
  the 
  death 
  of 
  two 
  sachems. 
  The 
  

   French 
  used 
  to 
  do 
  this 
  and 
  raise 
  up 
  others, 
  but 
  Johnson 
  said 
  he 
  

   would 
  stop 
  that. 
  He 
  also 
  instructed 
  the 
  Mohawks 
  to 
  leave 
  the 
  

   exchange 
  to 
  the 
  governor, 
  thus 
  upsetting 
  French 
  schemes. 
  

   About 
  that 
  time 
  147 
  canoes 
  brought 
  1177 
  western 
  Indians 
  to 
  

   Oswego, 
  and 
  its 
  growing 
  trade 
  alarmed 
  the 
  French. 
  

  

  