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In 1657 Father Chaumonot left the Cayugas and visited the 

 Senecas. He "assembled all the Elders of Gandagan, the princi- 

 pal village of Sonnontouan." Mr. R. G. Thwaite thinks (*l) that 

 "Gandagan" is a misprint for "Gandagare" and in his index 

 Mr. Thwaite calls this "Gandougarae." 



From Map by N. Sanson d' Abbeville Paris I656. 

 Marshall Library, Buffalo Historical Society. 



In the Relation of 1664-65 the writer in describing the Iro- 

 quois states (*2) that "toward the termination of the Great L,ake, 

 called Ontario, is located the most numerous of the Five Iroquois 

 nations, named the Senecas, which contains full twelve hundred 

 men in two or three villages, of which it is composed." 



A more detailed report of the location of the Seneca villages 

 was made by Father Jacques Fremin, in 1668. He was at that 

 time Superior of Iroquois missions. In November of that year 

 he reached Tsonnontouan. He reported (*3) that his mission of 

 St. Michel consisted of four villages, three of which he names, 

 "Gandachiragon, Gandougare and Gandagaro." (*4) "Gan- 



*i Jes. Rel , Burrows ed., Vol. XLIV p 321, note 2. 



*2 Doc. Hist. N. Y., Vol. 1. p 61 



*3 Jesuit Relations, Burrows ed., LIII p 95. 



*4 Jesuit Relations, Burrows ed., LIV, p. 79. 



