﻿HISTORY 
  OF 
  THE 
  NEW 
  YORK 
  IROQUOIS 
  331 
  

  

  Indian 
  affairs, 
  who 
  was 
  there, 
  sent 
  to 
  Castesh, 
  (Guastarax) 
  chief 
  

   of 
  the 
  Senecas, 
  to 
  inform 
  him 
  of 
  this. 
  He 
  came 
  and 
  desired 
  

   liquor-selling 
  stopped 
  for 
  the 
  time 
  being, 
  which 
  was 
  done. 
  He 
  

   said 
  the 
  Senecas 
  would 
  hold 
  to 
  the 
  English, 
  but 
  there 
  were 
  bad 
  

   belts 
  everywhere, 
  and 
  he 
  could 
  not 
  answer 
  for 
  all. 
  His 
  party 
  

   then 
  went 
  off 
  and 
  became 
  drunk, 
  returning 
  in 
  a 
  few 
  days. 
  

  

  Aug. 
  24 
  Mac 
  Clod 
  was 
  informed 
  of 
  bad 
  belts 
  passing 
  and 
  sent 
  

   to 
  two 
  Seneca 
  chiefs 
  to 
  know 
  about 
  them. 
  They 
  said 
  the 
  belts 
  

   had 
  not 
  stopped 
  at 
  their 
  village, 
  but 
  had 
  gone 
  to 
  the 
  Oneidas 
  

   and 
  might 
  return. 
  There 
  were 
  two, 
  but 
  they 
  seemed 
  harmless. 
  

   They 
  had 
  been 
  seen 
  at 
  Totieronno 
  at 
  the 
  head 
  of 
  Cayuga 
  lake. 
  

   The 
  old 
  women 
  of 
  the 
  Senecas 
  had 
  stopped 
  their 
  young 
  men 
  

   from 
  going 
  to 
  war. 
  Castesh 
  was 
  an 
  old 
  rogue 
  and 
  had 
  the 
  bad 
  

   belt 
  when 
  he 
  was 
  at 
  the 
  Niagara 
  council. 
  It 
  was 
  very 
  large. 
  

  

  Before 
  he 
  returned 
  in 
  October 
  Johnson 
  spent 
  three 
  weeks 
  at 
  

   Oneida 
  lake. 
  There 
  he 
  met 
  the 
  Indians 
  at 
  Tuscarora 
  creek, 
  who 
  

   " 
  were 
  greatly 
  affected 
  at 
  the 
  death 
  of 
  a 
  remarkable 
  chief 
  of 
  the 
  

   Onondagas," 
  and 
  he 
  " 
  was 
  obliged 
  to 
  perform 
  all 
  the 
  ceremony 
  

   on 
  that 
  occasion." 
  

  

  The 
  Cherokee 
  deputies 
  arrived 
  at 
  the 
  end 
  of 
  1767 
  and 
  met 
  

   760 
  Iroquois 
  at 
  Johnson 
  Hall 
  Mar. 
  3, 
  1768. 
  All 
  the 
  latter 
  were 
  

   very 
  discontented 
  and 
  had 
  nearly 
  turned 
  back 
  on 
  account 
  of 
  some 
  

   cruel 
  murders 
  in 
  Pennsylvania. 
  A 
  white 
  man 
  there 
  had 
  six 
  

   Indians 
  in 
  his 
  house, 
  who 
  became 
  drunk 
  and 
  troublesome, 
  and 
  he 
  

   killed 
  them 
  all. 
  The 
  next 
  day 
  he 
  and 
  his 
  servant 
  went 
  to 
  a 
  cabin 
  

   14 
  miles 
  away, 
  killed 
  four 
  more 
  and 
  burned 
  them 
  and 
  the 
  house. 
  

   Being 
  arrested, 
  he 
  was 
  set 
  free 
  from 
  jail 
  by 
  the 
  riotous 
  inhabi- 
  

   tants. 
  The 
  Assembly 
  voted 
  money 
  to 
  appease 
  the 
  Indians, 
  but 
  

   Johnson 
  at 
  first 
  had 
  small 
  hopes 
  of 
  doing 
  this. 
  

  

  The 
  Cherokees 
  went 
  through 
  the 
  usual 
  condolence 
  and 
  buried 
  

   the 
  hatchet, 
  but 
  did 
  not 
  take 
  it 
  out 
  of 
  the 
  heads 
  of 
  the 
  English. 
  

   Johnson 
  reproved 
  them 
  for 
  this, 
  and 
  they 
  apologized 
  and 
  repaired 
  

   the 
  omission 
  next 
  day. 
  Mar. 
  5 
  the 
  Six 
  Nations 
  were 
  long 
  in 
  

   assembling; 
  and 
  because 
  of 
  this 
  the 
  Cherokees 
  refused 
  "to 
  

   open 
  their 
  embassy 
  from 
  a 
  superstitious 
  notion 
  that, 
  as 
  it 
  was 
  

   noon, 
  the 
  day 
  was 
  too 
  far 
  advanced 
  for 
  a 
  work 
  of 
  peace, 
  according 
  

  

  