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tario" served in the French army against the British in New 

 York ; and later in the year seventeen of this party pushed as 

 far as "6 leagues below Orange, struck a blow and brought back 

 4 scalps", (i). 



During the next ten years they seem to have drifted farther 

 north ; and at the same time they trausferred their allegiance 

 to the British. At some time between 1745 and 1750 some of 

 the Missisaugas were compelled by the French to cross the 

 Niagara River and settle near the Senecas. In 1 746 they were 

 temporarily admitted into the Iroquois League as a seventh 

 nation, (2 ). In 1755, at the beginning of the last French war, a 

 Cayuga sachem brought before Sir William Johnson, "Nockkie, 

 a great Sachem of a Castle called the Missisagoes" who lived on 

 the north shore of Lake Ontario, and who belonged to the 

 "Chippewye Confederacy", (3). At that time they were allies 

 of the Six Nation. Five years later Sir William expected help 

 from them against the French, (4). 



In 1763, after the French war, they seem to have shared 

 the dissatisfaction felt by all the Indians east of the Mississippi 

 River against the methods of the British. They still roved 

 about through the forests of the Niagara Frontier, and at this 

 time one of their bands killed and scalped an English soldier 

 near Niagara, (5). In Sir William's census of Indians, made in 

 1763, they are called Missisagais or Chippeweighs and are noted 

 therein as having 320 men, and as living near Detroit, (6). 

 Here under Pontiac they took an active part against the British 

 garrison. 



Previous to the American Revolution they seem to have 

 lived at the western end of the Niagara Peninsula. On a map 

 made by Guillame de Lisle in 17 18, the name occurs on the 

 western bank of the Detroit River. On a map made by Bellin 

 in 1 744 and on one by M. le Chev de Beaurainin 1777 (shown on 

 page 276) they are marked as occupying the east bank of the St. 

 Clair River. Not until 1776, on a map in the "American Mili- 



Doc. Rel. to the Col. Hist, of N. Y., Vol. X, P. 35. 

 Hand-book of American Indians, Vol. 1, P. 909. 

 Doc. Rel. io tne Col. Hist, of N. Y., Vol. VI, P. 975. 

 Doc. Rel. to the Col. Hist, of N. Y., Vol. VII, P. 626. 

 Doc. Rel. to the Col. Hist, of N. Y., Vol. VII, P. 626. 

 Doc. Rel. to the Col. Hist, of N. Y., Vol. VII, P. 583. 



