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  road. 
  A 
  few, 
  like 
  Mary 
  Jemison 
  and 
  others, 
  would 
  not 
  return. 
  

   Some 
  cases 
  were 
  hard. 
  The 
  noted 
  Oneida 
  chief, 
  Thomas 
  King, 
  

   said 
  : 
  

  

  I 
  brought 
  a 
  Girl 
  to 
  Easton, 
  and 
  she 
  run 
  away; 
  when 
  I 
  came 
  

   home 
  I 
  found 
  her 
  there. 
  Bless 
  me 
  ! 
  says 
  I, 
  there 
  is 
  my 
  Wife. 
  

   I 
  was 
  sorry 
  that 
  I 
  had 
  delivered 
  her, 
  but 
  to 
  my 
  surprize 
  I 
  found 
  

   her 
  at 
  home. 
  You 
  know 
  it 
  is 
  hard 
  to 
  part 
  with 
  a 
  Wife. 
  I 
  have 
  

   brought 
  you 
  an 
  English 
  prisoner, 
  who 
  I 
  love 
  as 
  my 
  own 
  Wife. 
  

   I 
  have 
  a 
  young 
  Child 
  by 
  her. 
  You 
  know 
  it 
  is 
  very 
  hard 
  for 
  a 
  

   man 
  to 
  part 
  with 
  his 
  Wife. 
  I 
  have 
  delivered 
  her, 
  therefore 
  take 
  

   care 
  of 
  her, 
  and 
  keep 
  her 
  safe, 
  that 
  she 
  don't 
  make 
  her 
  escape. 
  

  

  At 
  this 
  council 
  the 
  Six 
  Nations 
  said 
  they 
  had 
  permitted 
  a 
  fort 
  

   at 
  Shamokin, 
  which 
  was 
  to 
  be 
  destroyed 
  in 
  due 
  time, 
  and 
  they 
  

   now 
  wished 
  it 
  removed. 
  It 
  was 
  on 
  their 
  warpath 
  and 
  might 
  make 
  

   trouble 
  between 
  them 
  and 
  the 
  soldiers. 
  

  

  That 
  year 
  Edward 
  Johnson, 
  schoolmaster 
  at 
  the 
  Tuscarora 
  

   castle, 
  made 
  complaints. 
  It 
  was 
  hard 
  teaching 
  such 
  scholars. 
  

   The 
  Rev. 
  Mr 
  Wheelock 
  wrote 
  that 
  a 
  legacy 
  of 
  £750 
  from 
  Sir 
  

   Peter 
  Warren 
  had 
  been 
  appropriated 
  by 
  the 
  General 
  Assembly 
  

   of 
  Massachusetts 
  for 
  the 
  support 
  and 
  education 
  of 
  six 
  youths 
  of 
  

   the 
  Six 
  Nations, 
  as 
  he 
  had 
  desired. 
  He 
  had 
  the 
  youths 
  and 
  was 
  

   teaching 
  them, 
  but 
  the 
  commissioners 
  thought 
  this 
  was 
  not 
  the 
  

   best 
  way. 
  They 
  thought 
  it 
  better 
  to 
  have 
  English 
  schools 
  among 
  

   them, 
  and 
  he 
  wanted 
  Johnson's 
  opinion. 
  He 
  replied 
  that 
  Whee- 
  

   lock's 
  plan 
  was 
  best, 
  as 
  the 
  others 
  would 
  find 
  if 
  they 
  tried 
  theirs. 
  

   In 
  October 
  of 
  that 
  year 
  Johnson 
  wrote 
  to 
  the 
  Rev. 
  Mr 
  Barclay 
  

   about 
  a 
  new 
  edition 
  of 
  the 
  Mohawk 
  prayer 
  book, 
  sending 
  the 
  old 
  

   one 
  with 
  some 
  additional 
  translations. 
  

  

  Guy 
  Johnson 
  had 
  a 
  conference 
  at 
  Onondaga 
  in 
  December 
  about 
  

   the 
  murder 
  of 
  two 
  Englishmen 
  by 
  two 
  Indians 
  in 
  the 
  Seneca 
  

   country. 
  Nov. 
  30, 
  he 
  came 
  to 
  the 
  upper 
  Oneida 
  Castle 
  and 
  the 
  

   next 
  day 
  to 
  Canowaroghere, 
  (present 
  Oneida 
  Castle), 
  a 
  new 
  vil- 
  

   lage 
  of 
  the 
  Oneidas. 
  Dec. 
  2 
  he 
  was 
  at 
  the 
  Tuscarora 
  village 
  of 
  

   Canaseraga, 
  Dec. 
  4 
  he 
  arrived 
  at 
  Onondaga 
  and 
  was 
  welcomed 
  

   by 
  Otschiniata, 
  or 
  the 
  Bunt. 
  He 
  was 
  told 
  that 
  Kanisteo 
  was 
  a 
  

   village 
  of 
  lawless 
  stragglers, 
  but 
  the 
  Indians 
  would 
  send 
  there 
  

   for 
  the 
  murderers. 
  

  

  