﻿HISTORY 
  OF 
  THE 
  NEW 
  YORK 
  IROQUOIS 
  373 
  

  

  cil 
  was 
  held 
  on 
  Detroit 
  river, 
  at 
  which 
  the 
  western 
  Indians 
  and 
  

   Six 
  Nations 
  were 
  represented. 
  An 
  address 
  sent 
  to 
  Congress 
  may 
  

   have 
  been 
  written 
  by 
  Brant, 
  encouraged 
  by 
  Sir 
  John 
  Johnson. 
  

   At 
  the 
  head 
  of 
  this 
  were 
  the 
  signatures 
  of 
  the 
  Six 
  Nations. 
  The 
  

   British 
  now 
  strengthened 
  the 
  forts, 
  and 
  the 
  Indians 
  became 
  more 
  

   hostile 
  to 
  the 
  Americans. 
  

  

  In 
  January 
  1788 
  the 
  Hurons 
  sent 
  the 
  Six 
  Nations 
  word 
  that 
  

   they 
  had 
  no 
  answer 
  from 
  the 
  United 
  States, 
  and 
  wished 
  them 
  to 
  

   attend 
  the 
  next 
  general 
  council, 
  as 
  promised. 
  This 
  met 
  in 
  

   October, 
  when 
  Brant's 
  views 
  were 
  more 
  pacific, 
  as 
  the 
  Mohawks 
  

   alone 
  might 
  adhere 
  to 
  the 
  British 
  side. 
  In 
  July 
  he 
  had 
  also 
  made 
  

   a 
  bargain 
  with 
  the 
  " 
  Lessee 
  Company," 
  leasing 
  lands 
  in 
  western 
  

   New 
  York, 
  and 
  prospective 
  profit 
  cooled 
  his 
  military 
  ardor. 
  

   This 
  long 
  lease 
  was 
  afterward 
  abrogated 
  by 
  New 
  York 
  as 
  illegal. 
  

  

  In 
  January 
  1789 
  General 
  St 
  Clair 
  made 
  separate 
  treaties 
  with 
  

   some 
  of 
  the 
  western 
  Indians, 
  which 
  destroyed 
  the 
  plan 
  of 
  a 
  great 
  

   confederacy. 
  One 
  took 
  in 
  all 
  the 
  Iroquois 
  but 
  the 
  Mohawks, 
  

   and 
  another, 
  six 
  other 
  nations. 
  In 
  his 
  journal 
  of 
  Feb. 
  4, 
  1789, 
  

   David 
  Zeisberger 
  said: 
  

  

  Brant 
  had 
  for 
  some 
  years 
  secretly 
  labored 
  to 
  extirpate 
  the 
  

   Delawares, 
  and 
  on 
  this 
  account 
  had 
  urged 
  the 
  Chippewas, 
  Tawas, 
  

   etc., 
  to 
  begin 
  war 
  with 
  them. 
  This 
  plan, 
  secretly 
  formed, 
  became 
  

   manifest 
  last 
  summer, 
  and 
  at 
  the 
  same 
  time 
  found 
  its 
  end, 
  for 
  

   it 
  came 
  to 
  nought. 
  He 
  then 
  worked 
  for 
  this, 
  that 
  the 
  nations 
  

   should 
  begin 
  war 
  afresh 
  with 
  the 
  States, 
  with 
  the 
  hope 
  that 
  in 
  

   this 
  the 
  Delawares 
  would 
  be 
  extirpated. 
  

  

  He 
  also 
  opposed 
  the 
  Moravian 
  Indians, 
  saying, 
  " 
  it 
  were 
  better 
  

   they 
  were 
  blotted 
  from 
  the 
  surface 
  of 
  the 
  earth 
  ; 
  they 
  caused 
  only 
  

   unrest 
  among 
  the 
  other 
  Indians." 
  Afterward 
  he 
  favored 
  them. 
  

   In 
  1790 
  the 
  Senecas 
  aided 
  the 
  western 
  tribes 
  who 
  defeated 
  

   General 
  Harmar, 
  but 
  these 
  were 
  personal 
  acts. 
  

  

  The 
  Seneca 
  chiefs, 
  Cornplanter, 
  Half 
  Town 
  and 
  Great 
  Tree, 
  

   were 
  with 
  Washington 
  in 
  Philadelphia 
  in 
  December 
  1790, 
  stay- 
  

   ing 
  several 
  weeks. 
  Great 
  Tree 
  may 
  have 
  remembered 
  their 
  

   unceremonious 
  departure 
  in 
  1778, 
  when 
  they 
  said 
  at 
  this 
  time: 
  

  

  Father 
  : 
  No 
  Seneca 
  ever 
  goes 
  from 
  the 
  fire 
  of 
  his 
  friend, 
  until 
  

   he 
  has 
  said 
  to 
  him, 
  " 
  I 
  am 
  going." 
  We 
  therefore 
  tell 
  you 
  that 
  

   we 
  are 
  now 
  setting 
  out 
  for 
  our 
  own 
  country. 
  

  

  