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  NEW 
  YORK 
  STATE 
  MUSEUM 
  

  

  these 
  became 
  the 
  prayer 
  book 
  of 
  1787, 
  which 
  also 
  included 
  the 
  

   Gospel 
  of 
  St 
  Mark. 
  

  

  Two 
  of 
  the 
  Iroquois 
  deputies 
  to 
  the 
  Scioto 
  council 
  died 
  on 
  their 
  

   way 
  home, 
  and 
  they 
  were 
  the 
  principal 
  ones. 
  The 
  others 
  showed 
  

   Sir 
  William 
  a 
  number 
  of 
  belts 
  and 
  calumets 
  and 
  told 
  him 
  all 
  

   they 
  could. 
  They 
  had 
  talked 
  first 
  with 
  the 
  Shawnees 
  at 
  Fort 
  

   Pitt, 
  and 
  they 
  said 
  the 
  Wawiaghtanons 
  would 
  soon 
  send 
  deputies 
  

   to 
  the 
  Six 
  Nations 
  and 
  Johnson. 
  At 
  the 
  council 
  they 
  blamed 
  the 
  

   Shawnees 
  for 
  going 
  so 
  far 
  down 
  the 
  Ohio 
  and 
  confederating 
  with 
  

   unfriendly 
  Indians. 
  All 
  the 
  belts 
  sent 
  were 
  faithfully 
  rendered. 
  

   Nickaroondase 
  was 
  the 
  principal 
  survivor 
  of 
  those 
  who 
  went 
  to 
  

   Scioto 
  that 
  year. 
  

  

  The 
  Shawnees 
  replied 
  to 
  this 
  reproof 
  that 
  the 
  Six 
  Nations 
  had 
  

   long 
  seemed 
  to 
  neglect 
  them, 
  and 
  to 
  forget 
  their 
  promise 
  of 
  land 
  

   between 
  the 
  Ohio 
  and 
  the 
  lakes. 
  So 
  they 
  started 
  to 
  seek 
  their 
  

   fortunes 
  in 
  their 
  canoes, 
  but 
  were 
  stopped 
  by 
  the 
  Iroquois 
  at 
  

   Scioto, 
  shaken 
  by 
  the 
  head 
  and 
  fixed 
  there, 
  with 
  a 
  charge 
  to 
  live 
  

   at 
  peace 
  with 
  the 
  English. 
  Soon 
  after 
  they 
  were 
  surprised 
  at 
  

   seeing 
  the 
  Six 
  Nations 
  in 
  arms 
  and 
  coasting 
  along 
  the 
  lake 
  with 
  

   the 
  English. 
  When 
  the 
  war 
  was 
  over 
  the 
  ill 
  treatment 
  of 
  the 
  

   Iroquois 
  increased, 
  and 
  they 
  sent 
  belts 
  to 
  strengthen 
  the 
  union, 
  

   but 
  supposed 
  they 
  had 
  not 
  reached 
  them. 
  They 
  showed 
  emble- 
  

   matic 
  belts, 
  representing 
  them 
  and 
  the 
  Illinois, 
  with 
  10 
  con- 
  

   federate 
  nations 
  between 
  them. 
  They 
  were 
  answered 
  by 
  a 
  true 
  

   statement 
  of 
  the 
  case 
  and 
  were 
  told 
  to 
  come 
  to 
  Onondaga. 
  On 
  

   this 
  they 
  excused 
  their 
  acts 
  and 
  promised 
  that 
  they 
  and 
  their 
  

   allies 
  would 
  be 
  peaceable. 
  

  

  Sep. 
  24, 
  1771, 
  some 
  Cayugas 
  and 
  Tuscaroras 
  were 
  in 
  Phila- 
  

   delphia, 
  their 
  speaker 
  being 
  Cheahogah, 
  a 
  Cayuga 
  chief. 
  Cawan- 
  

   daghsaw 
  brought 
  a 
  letter 
  from 
  Charleston 
  S. 
  C, 
  dated 
  Sep. 
  6, 
  

   saying 
  that 
  Da-ya-gough-de-re-sesh, 
  or 
  Thomas 
  King, 
  had 
  died 
  

   there 
  of 
  fever 
  the 
  day 
  before. 
  The 
  Indian 
  had 
  20 
  belts 
  and 
  many 
  

   strings 
  given 
  to 
  King 
  by 
  southern 
  Indians. 
  

  

  In 
  April 
  1772 
  Johnson 
  had 
  notice 
  of 
  another 
  general 
  meeting 
  

   at 
  Scioto 
  to 
  impart 
  the 
  sentiments 
  of 
  the 
  Six 
  Nations 
  to 
  those 
  

   not 
  at 
  the 
  last 
  council. 
  He 
  took 
  care 
  that 
  delegates 
  from 
  the 
  

  

  