The Documentary History of the State of New York, Vol. I — Passage 28 (part 2)
[E.B. O'Callaghan (1849)] Uncertain as I was regarding matters on the side of the Senecas, and fearful that the Senecas would create confusion on arriving here, I made some presents in your name to some captains who could best curb their insolence, so as to prevent the brewing of the storm. Your man of business, I mean La Grande Gueule, is not concerned at any thing; he is a venal be-ing whom you do well to keep in pay. I assured him that you would send him the jerkin you pro-mised. The Cayugas who are gone to war to the borders of Merinlande and Virginia have sent home some of their warriors to say that the English had killed three of their men, and that they having taken five Englishmen alive, had cut their throats after subjecting them to some bad treatment, and