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  NEW 
  YORK 
  STATE 
  MUSEUM 
  

  

  Colonel 
  Johnson 
  became 
  discouraged 
  at 
  the 
  lack 
  of 
  means 
  and 
  

   energy, 
  offered 
  his 
  resignation, 
  and 
  sent 
  a 
  belt 
  to 
  all 
  the 
  nations 
  

   that 
  he 
  was 
  no 
  longer 
  their 
  agent. 
  At 
  the 
  council 
  in 
  July 
  they 
  

   asked 
  that 
  he 
  might 
  be 
  reinstated. 
  Receiving 
  no 
  definite 
  answer, 
  

   the 
  Mohawks 
  repeated 
  the 
  request 
  the 
  next 
  year. 
  He 
  was 
  quite 
  

   a 
  trader, 
  and 
  the 
  Albany 
  people 
  were 
  jealous, 
  for 
  it 
  was 
  said 
  that 
  

   they 
  had 
  then 
  " 
  no 
  other 
  view 
  in 
  life 
  than 
  that 
  of 
  making 
  money." 
  

  

  All 
  this 
  time 
  Johnson 
  was 
  active 
  among 
  the 
  Indians, 
  and 
  in 
  

   1766 
  told 
  of 
  a 
  curious 
  transaction 
  of 
  this 
  year. 
  The 
  French 
  were 
  

   again 
  scheming 
  for 
  a 
  fort 
  at 
  Onondaga, 
  and 
  he 
  interfered 
  for 
  

   the 
  public 
  good. 
  Holding 
  a 
  conference 
  with 
  the 
  Onondagas, 
  he 
  

   asked 
  them 
  to 
  grant 
  him 
  Onondaga 
  lake, 
  with 
  the 
  land 
  for 
  2 
  miles 
  

   around, 
  and 
  he 
  would 
  make 
  them 
  a 
  handsome 
  present. 
  They 
  

   signed 
  a 
  deed 
  and 
  he 
  paid 
  them 
  £350 
  before 
  witnesses. 
  The 
  

   Assembly 
  refused 
  to 
  reimburse 
  him, 
  but 
  granted 
  him 
  the 
  tract, 
  

   and 
  he 
  took 
  no 
  farther 
  steps. 
  He 
  bequeathed 
  this 
  to 
  his 
  son, 
  

   but 
  it 
  was 
  a 
  dead 
  loss. 
  

  

  Both 
  Massachusetts 
  and 
  Pennsylvania 
  tried 
  to 
  have 
  the 
  Mo- 
  

   hawks 
  settle 
  on 
  their 
  frontier 
  as 
  a 
  means 
  of 
  defense. 
  " 
  The 
  

   Bunt" 
  came 
  to 
  Oswego 
  in 
  1751, 
  bringing 
  an 
  account 
  of 
  the 
  

   French 
  forts 
  farther 
  west. 
  A 
  large 
  French 
  force 
  had 
  gone 
  to 
  

   Niagara, 
  and 
  another 
  had 
  crossed 
  from 
  Lake 
  Erie 
  to 
  the 
  Ohio, 
  

   by 
  way 
  of 
  Chautauqua, 
  meaning 
  to 
  drive 
  the 
  English 
  from 
  that 
  

   river. 
  He 
  was 
  an 
  influential 
  Onondaga, 
  a 
  great 
  friend 
  of 
  John- 
  

   son, 
  and 
  did 
  much 
  for 
  the 
  English. 
  

  

  George 
  Croghan 
  and 
  Andrew 
  Montour 
  held 
  several 
  confer- 
  

   ences 
  at 
  Logstown, 
  early 
  in 
  1751, 
  with 
  chiefs 
  of 
  the 
  Six 
  Nations 
  

   living 
  on 
  the 
  Ohio, 
  on 
  French 
  aggressions 
  there. 
  A 
  Dunkard 
  

   tried 
  to 
  buy 
  land 
  on 
  a 
  branch 
  of 
  the 
  Ohio, 
  but 
  " 
  the 
  Indians 
  made 
  

   answer 
  that 
  it 
  was 
  not 
  in 
  their 
  Power 
  to 
  dispose 
  of 
  Lands 
  ; 
  that 
  

   he 
  must 
  apply 
  to 
  the 
  Council 
  at 
  Onondago." 
  "Weiser 
  was 
  sent 
  

   there 
  in 
  June, 
  but 
  met 
  the 
  Indians 
  at 
  Albany, 
  delivered 
  his 
  mes- 
  

   sage 
  and 
  returned. 
  

  

  Governor 
  de 
  la 
  Jonquiere 
  held 
  a 
  council 
  with 
  some 
  Onondagas 
  

   July 
  11, 
  1751. 
  They 
  claimed 
  the 
  Ohio 
  lands 
  by 
  conquest, 
  and 
  

   he 
  said 
  no 
  settlements 
  should 
  be 
  made 
  without 
  their 
  consent. 
  

  

  