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  NEW 
  YORK 
  STATE 
  MUSEUM 
  

  

  Chapter 
  26 
  

  

  Morse's 
  Indian 
  report. 
  Census 
  made 
  at 
  various 
  times. 
  Ogden 
  Land 
  Co. 
  

   Reservations. 
  General 
  Carrington's 
  statements. 
  Little 
  violence. 
  Citizen- 
  

   ship. 
  Title 
  to 
  lands. 
  Schools. 
  Union 
  soldiers. 
  Present 
  government. 
  

   Immorality. 
  Progress. 
  

  

  The 
  Rev. 
  Jedidiah 
  Morse 
  made 
  a 
  report 
  in 
  1822, 
  on 
  the 
  Indians 
  

   of 
  the 
  United 
  States. 
  In 
  1796 
  he 
  found 
  " 
  the 
  whole 
  population 
  

   of 
  the 
  Six 
  Nations, 
  including 
  their 
  adopted 
  children, 
  was 
  3748." 
  

   In 
  1818 
  Jasper 
  Parish 
  said 
  officially, 
  " 
  The 
  population 
  of 
  the 
  Six 
  

   Nations 
  of 
  Indians 
  is 
  4575." 
  The 
  Oneidas 
  were 
  then 
  1031, 
  exclu- 
  

   sive 
  of 
  the 
  Stockbridges 
  ; 
  and 
  at 
  old 
  Onondaga 
  were 
  299 
  Onon- 
  

   dagas. 
  Morse 
  found 
  but 
  2^2 
  of 
  the 
  latter 
  there 
  in 
  182 
  1. 
  Includ- 
  

   ing 
  the 
  Brothertown 
  and 
  Stockbridge 
  Indians 
  at 
  Oneida, 
  the 
  Six 
  

   Nations 
  of 
  New 
  York 
  then 
  numbered 
  4884. 
  After 
  that, 
  most 
  of 
  

   the 
  Oneidas 
  went 
  to 
  Wisconsin. 
  

  

  In 
  1792 
  their 
  missionary, 
  Rev. 
  Samuel 
  Kirkland, 
  said 
  the 
  

   Oneidas 
  had 
  several 
  villages 
  from 
  10 
  to 
  15 
  miles 
  from 
  Oneida 
  

   lake, 
  and 
  numbered 
  630. 
  There 
  were 
  280 
  Stockbridge 
  Indians 
  

   6 
  miles 
  south 
  of 
  the 
  largest 
  Oneida 
  village, 
  who 
  came 
  from 
  

   Massachusetts. 
  The 
  Oneidas 
  had 
  also 
  given 
  lands 
  to 
  250 
  

   Brothertown 
  Indians 
  in 
  1786, 
  which 
  were 
  20 
  miles 
  south 
  of 
  

   Oneida 
  lake. 
  Their 
  village 
  was 
  8 
  miles 
  south 
  of 
  the 
  Stock- 
  

   bridges, 
  and 
  they 
  had 
  come 
  from 
  Long 
  Island 
  sound. 
  

  

  Mention 
  has 
  been 
  made 
  of 
  some 
  of 
  the 
  loose 
  estimates 
  of 
  num- 
  

   bers 
  from 
  time 
  to 
  time. 
  In 
  the 
  New 
  York 
  census 
  of 
  1845 
  an 
  

   effort 
  was 
  made 
  to 
  get 
  more 
  reliable 
  data 
  of 
  all 
  kinds, 
  and 
  Henry 
  

   R. 
  Schoolcraft 
  was 
  employed 
  to 
  do 
  this. 
  He 
  found 
  here 
  20 
  Mo- 
  

   hawks, 
  210 
  Oneidas, 
  368 
  Onondagas, 
  123 
  Cayugas, 
  2441 
  Senecas, 
  

   281 
  Tuscaroras, 
  and 
  360 
  St 
  Regis 
  Indians. 
  Other 
  Iroquois 
  in 
  

   the 
  United 
  States 
  were 
  722 
  Oneidas 
  in 
  Wisconsin, 
  125 
  Senecas 
  

   west 
  of 
  the 
  Mississippi, 
  and 
  211 
  mixed 
  Senecas 
  and 
  Shawnees, 
  

   of 
  whom 
  half 
  might 
  be 
  Senecas. 
  There 
  were 
  also 
  51 
  Cornplanter 
  

   Senecas 
  in 
  Pennsylvania, 
  named 
  from 
  that 
  chief. 
  He 
  estimated 
  

   the 
  Canadian 
  Iroquois 
  at 
  2000, 
  and 
  the 
  whole 
  number 
  then 
  living 
  

   at 
  6942, 
  but 
  did 
  not 
  take 
  in 
  some 
  Canadian 
  villages 
  ; 
  and 
  the 
  mere 
  

   estimates 
  are 
  too 
  low. 
  

  

  