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  NEW 
  YORK 
  STATE 
  MUSEUM 
  

  

  among 
  the 
  Indians, 
  and 
  the 
  Senecas 
  particularly 
  were 
  in 
  their 
  

   Interest." 
  He 
  was 
  there 
  again 
  in 
  August 
  with 
  messages 
  from 
  

   Virginia 
  and 
  Pennsylvania. 
  

  

  Gov. 
  Danvers 
  Osborne 
  dying 
  suddenly, 
  Gov. 
  James 
  De- 
  

   lancey 
  succeeded 
  him 
  and 
  Colonel 
  Johnson 
  was 
  sent 
  to 
  Onon- 
  

   daga 
  to 
  bury 
  the 
  hatchet, 
  which 
  had 
  not 
  been 
  formally 
  done 
  

   and 
  the 
  Iroquois 
  were 
  sensitive 
  on 
  these 
  points. 
  Governor 
  

   Delancey 
  said 
  : 
  

  

  I 
  thought 
  it 
  would 
  be 
  for 
  His 
  Majesty's 
  Service 
  that 
  once 
  in 
  

   some 
  years 
  a 
  person 
  with 
  a 
  publick 
  character 
  and 
  some 
  small 
  

   present 
  should 
  be 
  sent 
  up 
  to 
  Onondago 
  which 
  is 
  the 
  place 
  of 
  the 
  

   General 
  meeting 
  of 
  the 
  five 
  Nations. 
  

  

  Johnson 
  entered 
  Onondaga 
  Castle 
  Sep. 
  8, 
  1753, 
  being 
  met 
  by 
  

   the 
  sachems 
  a 
  mile 
  from 
  the 
  town. 
  Kaghswughtioni, 
  or 
  Red 
  

   Head, 
  made 
  a 
  speech, 
  to 
  which 
  Johnson 
  replied, 
  condoling 
  the 
  

   deaths 
  of 
  three 
  noted 
  sachems. 
  It 
  was 
  a 
  saying 
  among 
  them 
  that, 
  

   when 
  the 
  fire 
  went 
  out 
  at 
  Onondaga, 
  they 
  would 
  no 
  longer 
  be 
  a 
  

   people. 
  It 
  now 
  burned 
  low, 
  and 
  he 
  came 
  to 
  rekindle 
  it. 
  They 
  

   thanked 
  him 
  for 
  speaking 
  in 
  their 
  manner. 
  He 
  found 
  some 
  

   Frenchmen 
  there 
  and 
  came 
  by 
  the 
  lake 
  himself. 
  In 
  May 
  he 
  had 
  

   referred 
  to 
  a 
  council 
  held 
  at 
  Onondaga 
  a 
  year 
  earlier, 
  in 
  which 
  

   the 
  Six 
  Nations 
  resolved 
  not 
  to 
  go 
  to 
  Virginia, 
  but 
  were 
  willing 
  

   to 
  treat 
  with 
  that 
  colony 
  at 
  Albany. 
  He 
  did 
  not 
  understand 
  

   what 
  was 
  meant 
  by 
  a 
  conference 
  at 
  Logstown. 
  Not 
  an 
  Iro- 
  

   quois 
  had 
  gone 
  there, 
  and, 
  if 
  wampum 
  was 
  left, 
  it 
  must 
  have 
  been 
  

   with 
  the 
  Shawnees. 
  Mere 
  messages 
  were 
  valueless, 
  " 
  unless 
  

   attended 
  or 
  confirmed 
  by 
  a 
  string 
  or 
  belt 
  of 
  wampum, 
  which 
  they 
  

   look 
  upon 
  as 
  we 
  our 
  letters, 
  or 
  rather 
  bonds." 
  

  

  In 
  December 
  Arent 
  Stephens 
  took 
  a 
  message 
  to 
  both 
  castles 
  

   of 
  the 
  Mohawks, 
  and 
  the 
  Oneidas 
  and 
  Tuscaroras, 
  with 
  which 
  

   they 
  were 
  well 
  pleased. 
  A 
  trusty 
  Onondaga 
  bore 
  it 
  to 
  the 
  others. 
  

  

  The 
  French 
  attempts 
  on 
  the 
  Ohio 
  failed 
  that 
  year, 
  but 
  would 
  

   be 
  resumed 
  the 
  next, 
  and 
  the 
  Iroquois 
  could 
  not 
  resist. 
  It 
  was 
  

   said 
  that 
  Picquet 
  at 
  first 
  wished 
  to 
  have 
  his 
  fort 
  on 
  Onondaga 
  

   lake. 
  The 
  previous 
  year 
  the 
  French 
  had 
  sent 
  Caughnawagas 
  

   among 
  the 
  Six 
  Nations 
  to 
  promote 
  war 
  against 
  the 
  southern 
  

  

  