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O'Callaghan, E.B., ed. The Documentary History of the State of New York, Vol. I. Albany: Weed, Parsons and Co., 1849.
There is a speech of the Six Nations bearing date Thursday
19 th May from the whole letter and speech of which it appears that the Six Nations have been, and
are very far from that satisfaction of mind, with the conduct of the Province of Pensilvania…
O'Callaghan, E.B., ed. The Documentary History of the State of New York, Vol. I. Albany: Weed, Parsons and Co., 1849.
Sir William Johnson gave it as his opinion that the hostilities which Pensilvania had suffered from
some of the Indians living on the Susquehanna did in some measure arise from the large purchase
made by the Governour two years ago. This is the poin…
O'Callaghan, E.B., ed. The Documentary History of the State of New York, Vol. I. Albany: Weed, Parsons and Co., 1849.
that the Six Nations had only made over their right of sale, and taken an earnest piece,
when the lands came to be settled, that they should receive a consideration for them.
and that
At the same
time John Schecelany, a Deleware Indian, burned so…
O'Callaghan, E.B., ed. The Documentary History of the State of New York, Vol. I. Albany: Weed, Parsons and Co., 1849.
" The said Margaret says she often heard the Indians say and declare most solemnly they never
would leave off killing the English as long as there was an Englishman living on their lands that they
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PAPERS RELATING TO THE SUSQUEHANNAH RIVER.
were…
O'Callaghan, E.B., ed. The Documentary History of the State of New York, Vol. I. Albany: Weed, Parsons and Co., 1849.
& the sundry Indians therein mentioned, & which Sir William Johnson transmits herewith to the
Right Honorable the Lords of Trade puts beyond dispute and demonstrates the Truth of what Sir
William Johnson gave as his opinion in his aforesaid letter t…
O'Callaghan, E.B., ed. The Documentary History of the State of New York, Vol. I. Albany: Weed, Parsons and Co., 1849.
This he has heard from many
of the chief and oldest men amongst them both in the English and Delaware Language which he sufsworn before him
27 th
ficiently understands
The Proprietors say, that as the Six Nations are not well satisfied with the sa…
O'Callaghan, E.B., ed. The Documentary History of the State of New York, Vol. I. Albany: Weed, Parsons and Co., 1849.
" I never understood from any of the Six Nations that they deemed the Lands west of the Susquehana as a purchase, but rather as a deed of Trust and rec' d 1000 Dollars as an Earnest Price and
looked on it that when the lands came to be settled they s…
O'Callaghan, E.B., ed. The Documentary History of the State of New York, Vol. I. Albany: Weed, Parsons and Co., 1849.
In answer to Sir William Johnson's opinion about the Government of Pensilvania raising Forces
and building Forts on the Susquehana River
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Vol. 1.
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PAPERS RELATING TO THE SUSQUEHANNAH RIVER.
" The Proprietors say this Insinuation is without an…
O'Callaghan, E.B., ed. The Documentary History of the State of New York, Vol. I. Albany: Weed, Parsons and Co., 1849.
complied with at that time."
In a Message winch Sir William Johnson received the 23 d May 1756 from the Onondaga Indians
they say as follows
:
" Tell our Brother farther that since
we took the hatchet out of the hands of the Delaware and
Shawanes…
O'Callaghan, E.B., ed. The Documentary History of the State of New York, Vol. I. Albany: Weed, Parsons and Co., 1849.
Sir William Johnson well knowing how extremely tender the Indians in general are, with regard
to Forts, near to their country or hunting grounds and naturally judging a Body of Armed Men, to
support as it were the building of those, at a time, and in…
O'Callaghan, E.B., ed. The Documentary History of the State of New York, Vol. I. Albany: Weed, Parsons and Co., 1849.
opinion but doth with yet stronger degree of conviction than formerly, humbly offer his conception
of the matter in the same words as before.
Namely, " that the most effectual method of producing
tranquility to that Province would be a Voluntary an…
O'Callaghan, E.B., ed. The Documentary History of the State of New York, Vol. I. Albany: Weed, Parsons and Co., 1849.
Abbe Picquetj
much confidence has taken charge of it, and
of testing, as much as possible what reliance is to be placed on the disposition of the Indians. 1
Nevertheless, as Mr de la Gallisonniere had remarked in the month of October, one thousand s…
O'Callaghan, E.B., ed. The Documentary History of the State of New York, Vol. I. Albany: Weed, Parsons and Co., 1849.
by the Abbe Picquet for his mission and a letter from that Abbe containing a Relation of his voyage
and the situation of the place. He says he left the fourth of May last year with twenty-five Frenchmen and four Iroquois Indians
he arrived the thirti…
O'Callaghan, E.B., ed. The Documentary History of the State of New York, Vol. I. Albany: Weed, Parsons and Co., 1849.
To accomplish tin's, they are gone to regulate their affairs and have promised to return with their
provisions.
The situation of this post is very advantageous
at the head of all the rapids, on the
;
it is
on the borders of the River de la Presen…
O'Callaghan, E.B., ed. The Documentary History of the State of New York, Vol. I. Albany: Weed, Parsons and Co., 1849.
The AbbC Picquet departs from Quebec for Fort Frontenac; he is to look in
the neighbourhood of that Fort, for a location best adapted for a village for the Iroquois of the Five Nations who propose
to embrace Christianity."
EARLY SETTLEMENT AT OGDEN…
O'Callaghan, E.B., ed. The Documentary History of the State of New York, Vol. I. Albany: Weed, Parsons and Co., 1849.
Whereas by means of a Fort at the Point, it would be
easy to have a force there in case of need to despatch to Choueguen and to intercept the Enghsh and
Indians who may want to penetrate into the Colony, and the voyage to Missilimakinac could be made…
O'Callaghan, E.B., ed. The Documentary History of the State of New York, Vol. I. Albany: Weed, Parsons and Co., 1849.
@ fifteen to twenty livres instead of forty-five and fifty livres which are given for the whole
voyage.
Other batteaux of La Presentation would convey them farther on, and the first would take
in return plank, boards
and other timber, abundant th…
O'Callaghan, E.B., ed. The Documentary History of the State of New York, Vol. I. Albany: Weed, Parsons and Co., 1849.
The most dangerous of those rapids, in number fourteen, are the Trou
Abbe Picquet points out a mode of rendering this River
navigable and to meet the expense he proposes a tax of ten livres on each canoe sent up and an
ecu (fifty cents) on each of th…
O'Callaghan, E.B., ed. The Documentary History of the State of New York, Vol. I. Albany: Weed, Parsons and Co., 1849.
M. de la Jonquiere in particular says, he will see if the proprietors of batteaux would contribute
to the expense necessary to be incurred for the Rapids ;
but he asks that convicts from the galleys
or people out of work (gens inutiles) be sent eve…
O'Callaghan, E.B., ed. The Documentary History of the State of New York, Vol. I. Albany: Weed, Parsons and Co., 1849.
Since all these letters M. de la Jonquiere has written another in which he states
Longueuil
informed him that a band of Savages believed to be Mohawks had attacked
that M. de
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Sieur Picquet's Mission on the twenty-sixth of October last that Sieur…
O'Callaghan, E.B., ed. The Documentary History of the State of New York, Vol. I. Albany: Weed, Parsons and Co., 1849.
M. de la Jonquiere adds that the Savages were instigated to -this attack by the English. The Iroquois who were on a complimentary visit at Montreal were surprized at it and assured M. de Longueuil that it could only be Colonel Amson [Johnson'?] who c…
O'Callaghan, E.B., ed. The Documentary History of the State of New York, Vol. I. Albany: Weed, Parsons and Co., 1849.
Lawrence, whither numbers of those two Nations have of late years been debauched and
gone to live.
Tho' our Indians do not now resort to those places as frequently and familiarly as
l
Equal to $653.23.
EARLY SETTLEMENT AT OGDENSBURGH.
they former…
O'Callaghan, E.B., ed. The Documentary History of the State of New York, Vol. I. Albany: Weed, Parsons and Co., 1849.
He followed this advice and entered the Congregation of
The direction of the new converts was soon proposed to him but the activity of his
Saint Sulpice.
him
to seek a wider field, and led him beyond the seas in 1733, to the Missions of
induced
zeal
…
O'Callaghan, E.B., ed. The Documentary History of the State of New York, Vol. I. Albany: Weed, Parsons and Co., 1849.
Picquet learned, by one
of these detachments that the English were making warlike preparations at Sarasto [Saratoga?] and
He informed the General of the circumwere pushing their settlements up to Lake St. Sacrement.
stance and proposed to him to send…
O'Callaghan, E.B., ed. The Documentary History of the State of New York, Vol. I. Albany: Weed, Parsons and Co., 1849.
the Savages and other parties of the enemy sent by the English against us, caused him to select a
"I am building: a Fort at this Lake which the French call Lake St. Sacrement, but I have given it the name of Lake George,
not only in honour to his M…
O'Callaghan, E.B., ed. The Documentary History of the State of New York, Vol. I. Albany: Weed, Parsons and Co., 1849.
Lake Ontario, an establishment
which succeded beyond his hopes, and has been the most useful of all those of Canada. Mr. Rouille, Minister of the Marine wrote on the 4 lh May 1749
"A large number of Iroquois
declared
that
they
were
embracing
desirous…
O'Callaghan, E.B., ed. The Documentary History of the State of New York, Vol. I. Albany: Weed, Parsons and Co., 1849.
so much importance to succeed in dividing them, that nothing must be neglected
It is for this reason that His Majesty desires you shall prosecute the design
that can contribute to it.
of the proposed settlement.
If it could attain a certain succes…
O'Callaghan, E.B., ed. The Documentary History of the State of New York, Vol. I. Albany: Weed, Parsons and Co., 1849.
Latitude on the Presentation River, which the Indians name Soegasti, thirty leagues above MontReal fifteen leagues from Lake Ontario or Lake Frontenac, which with Lake Champlain gives rise
15 leagues west of the source of the River Hudson which falls…
O'Callaghan, E.B., ed. The Documentary History of the State of New York, Vol. I. Albany: Weed, Parsons and Co., 1849.
The Marquis of Beauharnois and
afterwards M. de la Jonquiere, Governor General of New France, were very desirous that we should
"occupy it, especially at a time when English jealousy irritated by a war of many years, sought to
;
;
;
alienate from …
O'Callaghan, E.B., ed. The Documentary History of the State of New York, Vol. I. Albany: Weed, Parsons and Co., 1849.
of the King's effects could be constructed there at a third less expense than elsewhere because timber
is in greater
quantity and more accessible, especially when M. Picquet had had a sav.
there for preparing and manufacturing the timber.
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