[E.B. O'Callaghan (1849)] a detachment of ten soldiers sent there, and he will take measures, next spring, to secure that post. M. de la Jonquiere adds that the Savages were instigated to -this attack by the English. The Iro-quois who were on a complimentary visit at Montreal were surprized at it and assured M. de Lon-gueuil that it could only be Colonel Amson [Johnson'?] who could have induced them. He omitted nothing to persuade those same Iroquois to undertake this expedition and to prevent them going to compliment the Governor, having offered them Belts which they refused. COL. JOHNSON TO GOV. CLINTON, 18 AUG. 1750. [Lond. Doc. XXIX.] The next thing of consequence he (an Indian Sachem) told me was, that he had heard from several Indians that the Governor had given orders to the Priest who is now settled below Cadaraqui to use all means possible to induce the five Nations to settle there, for which end they have a large magazine of all kinds of clothing fitted for Indians as also Arms, Ammunition Provision &c which they distribute very liberally. THE SAME TO THE BOARD OF TRADE, 28 AUG. 1756. [ Lond. Doc. XXXIII. ] The Onnondagas and Oneidas are in the neighbourhood of Swegatchie a French settlement on the River St. Lawrence, whither numbers of those two Nations have of late years been debauched and