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THE SENECA NATION 



The next spring, May 22, 1666, the Senecas sent ambassa- 

 dors to Quebec, who ratified the treaty of December, and asked 

 for Frenchmen to live amongst them and for help against the 

 Andastes. 



The treaty was signed by the following: Garonheaguerha, 

 Saga8echistonk, Osend8t, Gachioguentaxa, Hotiguerion, Ondeg- 

 8aronton,So8enda8en, Tehaoug8echa8enion, Honag8est8i, Tehon- 

 neritague, Tsohaien. Their orator was Garonheaguerha. (*l) 





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Marks of the Tribes affixed to the Treaty of 1666. 



In 1668, the Senecas asked the 

 jaco(f"f ^rtrytcn, S'J, French at Quebec for missionaries, and 



in answer to their appeal, Father 

 Jacques Fremin, Superior of all the missions to the Iroquois, left 

 Agniez, the Mohawk canton, to carry the Gospel to Tsonnon- 

 touan. In November, 1668, he reached Sonnontouan where he 

 was well received "with all the honors usually given to Envoys". 

 The sachems had a chapel built for him and the people seemed 

 desirous of becoming Christians. The Huron captives, — evi- 

 dently those of St. Michel — had especially "great affection for 

 the Faith". Father Fremin baptized in four months sixty dying 

 persons of whom (according to the Father) thirty- three went to 

 Heaven. The "jugglers" still had a great hold over the people, 

 who praj^ed to God, however, to favor them in their war against 

 the Outaouacs, which was then raging. The L,oups or Delawares 

 and the Andastes were also active enemies of the Senecas and war 

 parties were out against these nations. Father Fremin endeav- 



*i Doc. Rel.. Col. Hist. N. Y., Vo\ IX. 45. 



