﻿HISTORY 
  OF 
  THE 
  NEW 
  YORK 
  IROQUOIS 
  349 
  

  

  The 
  chiefs 
  now 
  agreed 
  to 
  send 
  through 
  their 
  nations 
  to 
  tell 
  

   them 
  to 
  look 
  to 
  the 
  king 
  as. 
  their 
  true 
  protector 
  and 
  shun 
  all 
  evil 
  

   advice. 
  They 
  chose 
  a 
  Mohawk 
  and 
  an 
  Oneida, 
  who 
  would 
  ask 
  

   the 
  Bunt 
  at 
  Onondaga 
  to 
  send 
  two 
  of 
  his 
  family 
  with 
  them. 
  

   Colonel 
  Johnson 
  approved, 
  and 
  sent 
  a 
  " 
  belt 
  with 
  a 
  particular 
  

   message 
  from 
  himself 
  to 
  the 
  Onondaga 
  fire-place." 
  

  

  He 
  had 
  a 
  council 
  with 
  some 
  Cayuga 
  chiefs 
  and 
  other 
  Iroquois 
  

   Feb. 
  28. 
  The 
  opening 
  was 
  -simple. 
  " 
  The 
  Cayuga 
  chief 
  began 
  

   with 
  the 
  usual 
  salutation 
  of 
  the 
  warriors, 
  who 
  being, 
  as 
  he 
  

   observed, 
  a 
  plain 
  people, 
  would 
  use 
  but 
  few 
  words." 
  He 
  related 
  

   the 
  resolution 
  passed 
  at 
  Onondaga 
  and 
  the 
  refusal 
  of 
  the 
  Cayugas 
  

   to 
  take 
  the 
  western 
  ax. 
  They 
  feared 
  seven 
  Cayugas 
  had 
  joined 
  

   the 
  Shawnees, 
  but 
  they 
  did 
  not, 
  and 
  brought 
  three 
  white 
  strings 
  

   from 
  " 
  the 
  great 
  plains 
  " 
  to 
  remind 
  the 
  Iroquois 
  that 
  they 
  had 
  

   not 
  attended 
  to 
  messages 
  thence. 
  Four 
  short 
  strings 
  of 
  black 
  

   wampum 
  came 
  also 
  " 
  from 
  another 
  warrior 
  from 
  Canundageh, 
  

   on 
  this 
  side 
  of 
  the 
  great 
  plains, 
  on 
  behalf 
  of 
  three 
  nations," 
  

   exhorting 
  them 
  to 
  mind 
  their 
  true 
  interests. 
  This 
  was 
  not 
  the 
  

   Canandaigua 
  of 
  New 
  York, 
  but 
  one 
  in 
  Ohio, 
  the 
  emigrating 
  Iro- 
  

   quois 
  carrying 
  local 
  names 
  with 
  them. 
  The 
  Hurons 
  and 
  their 
  

   eight 
  confederate 
  nations 
  sent 
  peace 
  strings, 
  and 
  were 
  invited 
  to 
  

   the 
  next 
  Iroquois 
  council. 
  

  

  Just 
  after 
  they 
  left, 
  32 
  Indians 
  came 
  from 
  Otsiningo 
  or 
  Che- 
  

   nango, 
  and 
  elsewhere. 
  They 
  were 
  " 
  chiefs 
  of 
  the 
  two 
  tribes 
  at 
  

   Chenango, 
  the 
  Chughnuts, 
  Owego, 
  and 
  Tioga, 
  being 
  five 
  several 
  

   nations." 
  They 
  gave 
  congratulations, 
  but 
  complained 
  of 
  the 
  

   boundary. 
  'Producing 
  a 
  map, 
  Johnson 
  showed 
  how 
  the 
  mistake 
  

   came. 
  It 
  affected 
  four 
  villages, 
  but 
  would 
  be 
  considered, 
  and 
  all 
  

   would 
  be 
  satisfied. 
  It 
  was 
  a 
  time 
  of 
  good 
  promises. 
  In 
  July 
  

   King 
  George 
  ordered 
  Colonel 
  Johnson, 
  in 
  consequence 
  of 
  the 
  

   rebellion, 
  " 
  to 
  lose 
  no 
  time 
  in 
  taking 
  such 
  steps 
  as 
  may 
  induce 
  

   the 
  Six 
  Nations 
  to 
  take 
  up 
  the 
  hatchet 
  against 
  His 
  Majesty's 
  

   rebellious 
  subjects 
  in 
  America." 
  

  

  May 
  14 
  Colonel 
  Johnson 
  heard 
  that 
  the 
  Americans 
  were 
  com- 
  

   ing 
  to 
  arrest 
  him 
  and 
  fortified 
  himself. 
  He 
  said 
  his 
  Indian 
  

   expresses 
  were 
  stopped, 
  messages 
  altered 
  and 
  provisions 
  detained, 
  

  

  