﻿HISTORY 
  OF 
  THE 
  NEW 
  YORK 
  IROQUOIS 
  337 
  

  

  During 
  the 
  council 
  the 
  Six 
  Nations 
  presented 
  the 
  address 
  they 
  

   would 
  send 
  to 
  the 
  Piankashaws, 
  Kickapoos 
  and 
  other 
  western 
  

   Indians. 
  Their 
  messengers 
  would 
  inform 
  them 
  of 
  the 
  peace 
  

   between 
  the 
  Iroquois 
  and 
  the 
  Cherokees, 
  and 
  of 
  the 
  good 
  under- 
  

   standing 
  with 
  the 
  English. 
  The 
  Iroquois 
  were 
  surprised 
  at 
  their 
  

   conduct 
  to 
  them 
  and 
  to 
  the 
  English 
  traders 
  going 
  to 
  the 
  Illinois. 
  

   They 
  were 
  out 
  of 
  their 
  senses, 
  and 
  the 
  Six 
  Nations 
  took 
  them 
  by 
  

   the 
  head, 
  shaking 
  them 
  so 
  as 
  to 
  restore 
  their 
  wits 
  and 
  taking 
  the 
  

   hatchet 
  from 
  their 
  hands 
  because 
  they 
  did 
  mischief. 
  If 
  they 
  

   proved 
  obstinate, 
  there 
  would 
  be 
  war, 
  and 
  with 
  war, 
  ruin. 
  

  

  In 
  the 
  autumn 
  of 
  1770 
  a 
  great 
  Indian 
  congress 
  met 
  at 
  Scioto 
  

   in 
  Ohio, 
  intended 
  for 
  a 
  stricter 
  union 
  among 
  the 
  Indians. 
  It 
  

   ended 
  in 
  general 
  resolutions 
  for 
  peace 
  among 
  all, 
  introductory 
  to 
  

   a 
  firm 
  alliance 
  between 
  the 
  northern 
  and 
  southern 
  nations 
  for 
  

   some 
  purpose 
  not 
  made 
  known. 
  Johnson 
  opposed 
  this 
  council 
  

   but 
  could 
  not 
  prevent 
  it. 
  His 
  deputies 
  from 
  the 
  council 
  at 
  

   German 
  Flats 
  met 
  the 
  Indians 
  from 
  Scioto 
  at 
  Fort 
  Pitt 
  in 
  Decem- 
  

   ber, 
  and 
  summoned 
  them 
  to 
  reassemble 
  at 
  Scioto, 
  when 
  they 
  

   would 
  communicate 
  the 
  resolutions 
  agreed 
  to 
  at 
  German 
  Flats 
  

   and 
  on 
  which 
  they 
  had 
  over 
  100 
  belts. 
  He 
  had 
  great 
  confi- 
  

   dence 
  in 
  several 
  of 
  these 
  deputies 
  and 
  hoped 
  to 
  defeat 
  anything 
  

   dangerous. 
  

  

  In 
  July 
  1771 
  he 
  held 
  a 
  council 
  with 
  350 
  of 
  the 
  Six 
  Nations, 
  on 
  

   a 
  report 
  that 
  they 
  were 
  stirring 
  up 
  the 
  Shawnees, 
  Delawares 
  and 
  

   others 
  to 
  war 
  on 
  the 
  English. 
  They 
  denied 
  it, 
  but 
  he 
  gave 
  his 
  

   authority, 
  and 
  this 
  brought 
  explanations. 
  Then 
  he 
  thought 
  there 
  

   was 
  reason 
  to 
  distrust 
  only 
  the 
  Senecas 
  on 
  the 
  Ohio 
  and 
  at 
  Gene- 
  

   seo. 
  The 
  Indians 
  themselves 
  examined 
  those 
  present 
  from 
  the 
  

   farthest 
  castle, 
  who 
  said 
  that 
  any 
  remaining 
  evil 
  must 
  have 
  come 
  

   from 
  Guastarax, 
  chief 
  of 
  the 
  Senecas, 
  who 
  was 
  now 
  under 
  ground 
  

   but 
  had 
  been 
  a 
  bad 
  and 
  troublesome 
  man. 
  In 
  the 
  late 
  Indian 
  

   war 
  he 
  secretly 
  sent 
  a 
  belt 
  hatchet 
  to 
  the 
  Shawnees 
  and 
  others, 
  

   that 
  he 
  would 
  remove 
  the 
  door 
  of 
  the 
  Six 
  Nations 
  from 
  his 
  vil- 
  

   lage 
  of 
  Geneseo 
  to 
  Scioto 
  plains, 
  and 
  he 
  wished 
  them 
  to 
  help 
  him 
  

   fight 
  his 
  way 
  there. 
  The 
  Senecas 
  then 
  disavowed 
  his 
  acts. 
  As 
  

   his 
  cunning 
  was 
  now 
  well 
  known, 
  they 
  thought 
  it 
  likely 
  he 
  had 
  

  

  