Documentary History of the State of New York, Vol. I
They are twenty men settled with the Iroquois of the Two Mountains
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this is
all that remains
of a nation the most warlike, most polished and the most attached
to the French.
They haVe for armorial bearings an Evergreen Oak (chine vert.)
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At the Lake of the Two Mountains. The Nepissingues.
A part of this Tribe is incorporated with the Iroquois.
has its village at the lake of the same name.
The remainder
There are here fifty men bearing arms.
The armorial bearings of this Nation are the Heron for the Achague, or Heron tribe the Beaver for the Amekoves the Birch for the Bark tribe (lafamille de PEcorce) ; Blood for the ;
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Miskouaha or the Bloody people. Remark, Sir, if you please, that besides the bearings of the principal stocks to which I exme to obtain thorough details, each tribe The Iroquois who are masters of this village, amount
clusively confine myself, leisure not permitting
distinguishes itself by peculiar devices. to no more than sixty-three
-- mean warriors.
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At Sault St. Louis. The
Iroquois,
who compose
exclusively the village are nearly three hundred and three -
bearing arms.
These two villages proceeding from the Iroquois of Lake Ontario, or Frontenac, have the same armorial devices. Three principal tribes carry the Wolf, the Bear and the Tortoise.
--Argent,
to the Wolf gules, &c. They usually ornament them merely with charcoal.
Note.
The Ch-eat River of the Outawas. At Lake Nepissingue there is one small village of thirty men, who bear a Squirrel, AtchitamH.