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  YORK 
  STATE 
  MUSEUM 
  

  

  small 
  weight. 
  Some 
  complained 
  that 
  Johnson 
  gave 
  them 
  too 
  

   little 
  powder. 
  He 
  said 
  : 
  

  

  The 
  Indians 
  are 
  remarkably 
  the 
  very 
  worst 
  managers 
  of 
  pow- 
  

   der 
  on 
  every 
  occasion, 
  and 
  whilst 
  they 
  have 
  any 
  ammunition 
  

   are 
  continually 
  discharging 
  their 
  pieces 
  at 
  every 
  little 
  object, 
  

   be 
  their 
  necessities 
  ever 
  so 
  great. 
  Every 
  hunter 
  consumes 
  about 
  

   8 
  lbs. 
  of 
  powder, 
  and 
  20 
  lbs. 
  of 
  lead 
  at 
  his 
  two 
  hunting 
  seasons 
  

   in 
  the 
  year, 
  and 
  without 
  that 
  quantity 
  a 
  good 
  hunter 
  seldom 
  

   chooses 
  to 
  go 
  out. 
  

  

  The 
  council 
  met 
  Sep. 
  14, 
  with 
  326 
  Iroquois 
  present, 
  and 
  that 
  

   day 
  246 
  more 
  came 
  from 
  the 
  Susquehanna 
  as 
  low 
  as 
  Owego, 
  to 
  

   say 
  they 
  would 
  remain 
  friends. 
  Some 
  Senecas 
  also 
  came 
  from 
  

   the 
  friendly 
  towns 
  east 
  of 
  Geneseo. 
  They 
  wished 
  to 
  be 
  recon- 
  

   ciled 
  to 
  the 
  English, 
  not 
  having 
  struck 
  the 
  Virginia 
  people. 
  It 
  

   was 
  more 
  likely 
  the 
  Shawnees. 
  Messengers 
  had 
  not 
  returned 
  

   from 
  the 
  two 
  towns 
  near 
  the 
  Genesee 
  river. 
  The 
  Caughnawagas 
  

   sent 
  a 
  belt 
  to 
  the 
  Senecas, 
  saying 
  that, 
  if 
  they 
  forgot 
  the 
  old 
  

   covenant, 
  they 
  and 
  the 
  Canada 
  Indians 
  would 
  quarrel 
  with 
  them. 
  

   The 
  friendly 
  Ottawas 
  near 
  Michilimackinac 
  restored 
  some 
  Eng- 
  

   lish 
  prisoners. 
  

  

  Teyawarunte, 
  the 
  Onondaga 
  speaker, 
  took 
  the 
  large 
  covenant 
  

   belt 
  of 
  1754, 
  repeated 
  the 
  old 
  engagements 
  made 
  thereon, 
  and 
  on 
  

   behalf 
  of 
  18 
  nations 
  brightened 
  and 
  renewed 
  them. 
  After 
  the 
  

   Canadian 
  conquest 
  Johnson 
  had 
  buried 
  the 
  hatchet 
  under 
  a 
  large 
  

   pine 
  tree, 
  in 
  a 
  stream 
  of 
  water, 
  that 
  it 
  might 
  no 
  more 
  be 
  found. 
  

   He 
  now 
  gave 
  them 
  a 
  good 
  English 
  ax 
  to 
  cut 
  off 
  all 
  bad 
  links 
  

   from 
  the 
  covenant 
  chain. 
  

  

  Sep. 
  25 
  he 
  had 
  an 
  express, 
  reporting 
  the 
  tragedy 
  at 
  the 
  Devil's 
  

   Hole, 
  Niagara, 
  where 
  the 
  Senecas 
  destroyed 
  one 
  party 
  and 
  

   defeated 
  two 
  companies 
  sent 
  to 
  its 
  relief. 
  The 
  surprise 
  was 
  com- 
  

   plete, 
  five 
  officers 
  and 
  60 
  privates 
  being 
  killed. 
  Many 
  were 
  

   thrown 
  over 
  the 
  precipice. 
  

  

  In 
  October 
  Johnson 
  thus 
  set 
  forth 
  the 
  Iroquois 
  land 
  claims 
  to 
  

   the 
  Lords 
  of 
  Trade 
  : 
  

  

  As 
  Original 
  proprietors, 
  this 
  Confederacy 
  claim 
  the 
  Country 
  of 
  

   their 
  residence, 
  south 
  of 
  Lake 
  Ontario 
  to 
  the 
  great 
  Ridge 
  of 
  the 
  

   Blew 
  Mountains, 
  with 
  all 
  the 
  Western 
  part 
  of 
  the 
  province 
  of 
  

  

  