long time, having become aggravated, finally caused his death at Verjon on the 15 th July 1781. his life time he was complimented with the title of " Apostle of the Iroquois."

Note.

--Fort

In

la Presentation, with the River, under the names of Wegatchi, Swegatchi, Oswegatchi,

will be found laid down in the following Maps and Charts, viz*

A Map of that part of America which was the principal seat of War in 1756, published in the Gentleman's Magazine for 1757, Vol. xxvii.

An Exact Chart of the River St. Lawrence from Fort Frontenac to the Island of Anticosti by Tho

g

Jeffereys, London 1775 ; with the River St. Lawrence from Quebec to Lake Ontario copied from

D'Anvills Map of 1755; Sauthiers Map of the Inhabited parts of Canada and Frontiers of New York, &c.

London 1777;

Sauthiers Map of the Province of New York, Lond.

1779 and in Carte Generale des (14) Etats Unis de l'Amerique Septentrionale renfernant quelques Provinces Angloises adjacentes, being

No. 30 in Atlas of Maps on America in State Lib. Reference to this settlement will be also found in Gent. Mag. xxiv, 593. corruptly, calledFort Patterson.

It is sometimes,

though

XVII.

PAPERS RELATING TO THE

Shst 0cttUment anir QIapturc of JTort ©stwcga.

1727--1756.

FIRST SETTLEMENT OF THE ENGLISH IN WESTERN NEW-YORK. [

Lond. Doc. XXII.

]

Gov. Burnet to the Board of Trade.

New York, Oct. 16, 1721. That I miglit improve their (the Indians') present good humor to the best advantage I have employed the live hundred pounds granted this year by the Assembly chiefly to the erecting and encouraging a settlement a Tirandaquet a Creek on the Lake Ontario about sixty miles on this side Niagara whither there are now actually gone a company of ten persons with the approbation of our