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<P>AN ACCOUNT OF THE TREATY BETWEEN <HI>His Excellency <HI>Benjamin Fletcher</HI></HI> Captain General and Go|vernour in Chief of the Province of <HI>New-York, &amp;c.</HI> AND THE INDIANS OF THE <HI>Five Nations, <HI>VIZ.</HI></HI> The <HI>Mohaques, Oneydes, Onnondages, Cajonges</HI> and <HI>Sennekes,</HI> at <HI>Albany,</HI> beginning the 15th of <HI>Augu&s;t,</HI> 1694.</P>
<P><HI>Printed &amp; Sold by</HI> William Bradford, <HI>Printer to Their Maje&s;ties, King</HI> William <HI>and Queen</HI> Mary, <HI>at the Sign of the Bible in</HI> New-York, 1694.</P>
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<P>Li&s;enced,</P>
<CLOSER><SIGNED><HI>David Iami&s;on,</HI> Cl. Concilij.</SIGNED></CLOSER>
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<DIV1 TYPE="treaty negotiations">
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<HEAD>THE ANSWER OF The Five Nations, <HI>VIZ. The Mahaques, Oneydes, Onnondages, Cajouges</HI> and <HI>Senekes,</HI> TO THE QUESTION Put to Them in <HI>May</HI> la&s;t By His Excellency
<HI>Benjamin Fletcher,</HI> Captain General and Governour in Chief of the Province of <HI>New-York,</HI> Province of <HI>Penn&s;ilvania,</HI> Country of <HI>New-Ca&s;tle,</HI> and the Territories and Tracts of Land depending thereon in <HI>America,</HI> and Vice-Admiral of the &s;ame; Their Maje&s;ties Lieutenant and Commander in Chief of the Militia, and of the Forces by Sea and Land within Their Maje&s;ties Collony of <HI>Connecticut,</HI> and of all the Forts and Places of Strength within the &s;ame.</HEAD>
<HEAD TYPE="sub">Given at <HI>Albany</HI> the 15th day of <HI>Augu&s;t,</HI> 1694.</HEAD>
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<HEAD TYPE="sub">PRESENT</HEAD>
<LIST>
<ITEM>His Excellency <HI>Benjamin Fletcher, &amp;c.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Coll. <HI>Andrew Hamilton,</HI> Governour of <HI>Ea&s;t</HI> and <HI>We&s;t-Jar&s;ey.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><LIST>
<HEAD>Of Their Maje&s;ties Council for the Province of <HI>New-York.</HI></HEAD>
<ITEM>Coll. <HI>Stephen Cortland,</HI> </ITEM>
<ITEM>Coll. <HI>Nicholas Bayard,</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Coll <HI>William Smith,</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Chidley Brooke,</HI> E&s;q.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Major <HI>Peter Schuyler,</HI></ITEM>
</LIST></ITEM>
<ITEM><LIST>
<HEAD>Commi&s;&s;ioners from the <HI>Ma&s;&s;achu&s;ets Bay</HI> in <HI>New-England.</HI></HEAD>
<ITEM>Coll. <HI>John Pincheon,</HI> </ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Samuell Sewell,</HI> E&s;q.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Major <HI>Penn Towne&s;end,</HI></ITEM>
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<ITEM><LIST>
<HEAD>Commi&s;&s;ioners from <HI>Connecticut</HI> Collony.</HEAD>
<ITEM>Coll. <HI>John Allyn,</HI> </ITEM>
<ITEM>Capt. <HI>Caleb Stanley,</HI></ITEM>
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<HEAD>The <HI>Sachims</HI> or <HI>Indian Kings.</HI></HEAD>
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<HEAD>Mohaques,</HEAD>
<ITEM><HI>Rode,</HI> </ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Sinnonquire&s;&s;e,</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Onnuchwarranore,</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>To&s;oquatho,</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Ta&s;&s;orande&s;e,</HI></ITEM>
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<HEAD>Oneydes.</HEAD>
<ITEM><HI>Adogounwa,</HI> </ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Caraquarie,</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Sohorochjondie,</HI></ITEM>
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<ITEM><LIST>
<HEAD>Onnondages.</HEAD>
<ITEM><HI>Sadekanacktie,</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Dekani&s;&s;ore,</HI> </ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Canadgegai,</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Carachkindie,</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Tagora&s;uitho,</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Odaniende,</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Orondi&s;achti,</HI></ITEM>
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<ITEM><LIST>
<HEAD>Cayouge</HEAD>
<ITEM><PB N="5" REF="4"><HI>Sorichnowanne,</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Dekaeijow,</HI> </ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Taneri&s;&s;o,</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Cadgi&s;&s;o,</HI></ITEM>
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<HEAD>Senekes,</HEAD>
<ITEM><HI>Ra&s;ad&s;te,</HI> </ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Radondare&s;ax,</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>O&s;tewatte,</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Ohawadege,</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Tehondai&s;&s;en,</HI></ITEM>
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<ITEM><HI>Carachquinno,</HI> A Queen.</ITEM>
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<P>The Foot Guards were drawn up before the place of Au|dience, and a Troop of Dragoons on the Right Hand.</P>
<P>The Sachims, by a Me&s;&s;enger, acquaint his Excellency, that they are ready to wait upon his Excellency, and give their An&s;wer to that Que&s;tion propo&s;ed to them the 7th of <HI>May</HI> la&s;t.</P>
<P>His Excellency &s;ent word, he was re&agrave;dy.</P>
<P>The <HI>Sachims,</HI> attended by their other <HI>Indians,</HI> came in order, two and two, <HI>Rode,</HI> the fir&s;t Sachim of the <HI>Mo|haques</HI> being Leader, &s;inging aloud as they marched. Songs of Joy and Peace. Then the <HI>Indians</HI> took their places upon Planks laid upon the Ground, <HI>Rode</HI> w&agrave;lking round them, and &s;inging, until all were &s;et down.</P>
<P><HI>Dekani&s;&s;ore</HI> ro&s;e up, and de&s;ired liberty from his Ex|cellency to &s;ing a Song or two of Peace before they begin their Di&s;cour&s;e. Which was granted. Then he took his place.</P>
<P><HI>Rode</HI> ro&s;e up, addre&s;&s;ing his Di&s;cour&s;e to the <HI>Sachims</HI> of the five Nations, told them what great Rea&s;on they had to rejoyce to &s;ee their <HI>Brother Caijenquirago</HI> with &s;o many that were of the Covenant Chain attending him, to
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con&s;&ucirc;lt of Matters relating to the publick Good. After which the whole Company of <HI>Indians</HI> &s;ung two or three Songs of Joy and Peace. Then</P>
<P><HI>Sadekanacktie,</HI> the Speaker, ro&s;e up, and fir&s;t turning to the <HI>Indians,</HI> repeated how long the five Nations had been in Amity with the Inhabitants of the Province of <HI>New-York,</HI> and the Subjects of the Crown of <HI>England</HI> In <HI>America;</HI> with a Narrative of the many Acts of Friendship happening mutually from time to time, and how the <HI>Covenant Chain</HI> was fir&s;t made~.</P>
<P>Then turning to his Excellency, &s;aid,</P>
<P><HI>Brother Cajenquirago,</HI> You expected to &s;ee us here, and we the <HI>Sachims</HI> of the <HI>five Nations</HI> are come accor|dingly to &s;peak to you.</P>
<P><HI>Brother Caijenquirago,</HI> You appointed us to meet you here in one hundred Days, to give you our an&s;wer, <HI>Who will be for you, and who again&s;t you?</HI> This is the hun|dredth Day, and we are come with the Repre&s;entatives of the five Nations to give an unanimous An&s;wer.</P>
<P>This Spring we gave you an account, that we had &s;ent Me&s;&s;engers to <HI>Canada</HI> to treat with the <HI>French;</HI> for which ill management you gave us a Rebuke, but withal you did receive us again into your Favour, and imbraced us, pro|mi&s;ing not to break the Covenant Chain &s;o long as you had Blood in your Veins, and gave a Belt of Wampum in Confirmation of it.</P>
<P><HI>Brother Caijenquirago,</HI> You &s;ee that the Number of our People are much dimini&s;hed; &s;ome of them have been out a Hunting lately, and have caught a &s;mall matter, we do pre&s;ent your Excellency with &s;ome part of what we have got. Then gave &s;ome Beaver and Peltry.</P>
<P><PB N="7" REF="5"><HI>Brother Caijenquirago,</HI> I &s;hall be brief in what I have to to &s;ay. In the days of Old, when the <HI>Chri&s;tians</HI> came fir&s;t into this River, we made a Covenant with them, fir&s;t with the Bark of a Tree, afterwards it was renewed with a twi&s;ted Withe; but in proce&s;s of time, left that &s;hould decay and rot, the Covenant was fa&s;tened with a Chain of Iron, which ever &s;ince has been called the Covenant Chain, and the end of it was made fa&s;t at <HI>Onnondage,</HI> which is the centre of the five Nat&iuml;ons. And therefore it was concluded, That whoever &s;hould violate or mole&s;t that Chain, or any part of it, the parties linked in the Chain &s;hould unanimou&s;ly fall upon &s;uch, and di&s;troy them; they &s;hould certainly dye the Death.</P>
<P>Since the time that the Governors have been here from the great King of <HI>ENGLAND,</HI> we have made a general and more firm Covenant, which has grown &s;tronger and &s;tronger from time to time; and our Neigh|bours &s;eeing the advantage thereof, came and put in their Hands into the &s;ame Chain, particularly they of <HI>New-England, Connecticut, New-Jar&s;ey, Penn&s;ilvania, Mary|land</HI> and <HI>Virginia.</HI> But &s;ince that time that all our Neighbours have put in their Hands into the Covenant Chain, we have had great &s;truggling and trouble from the common Enemy, the <HI>French;</HI> Our <HI>Brother Caijen|quirago's</HI> Wri&s;t, and ours, are tyred, and &s;tiff with holding fa&s;t the Chain alone, whil&s;t the re&s;t of our Neighbours &s;it &s;till and &s;moake it. Thae Gree&s;e is melted from our Fle&s;h, and drops &ucirc;pon our Neighbours, who are grown fat, and live at ea&s;e, while we become lean: They flouri&s;h, and we decrea&s;e.</P>
<P><PB N="8" REF="6">Then naming all the Engli&s;h Plantations, &s;aid,</P>
<P><HI>Brethren,</HI> we are envied by our Enemies round about, and particul&agrave;rly by the <HI>French,</HI> who are very uncon&s;tant; and if the French or any other Enemy fall upon us, let us all joyn together, and take up the Hatchet in our hands, and then we &s;hall be &s;trong enough to de&s;troy our Enemies, and live in Peace afterwards.</P>
<P><HI>Brother Caijenquirago,</HI> and the re&s;t of the Brethren that are in covenant with us, It has been an antient Cu&s;tom to renew the Covenant Chain, and to make it clean and bright, that it may &s;hine like Silver. And we promi&s;e, That it &s;hall be on our parts &s;o &s;trong and in|violable, that the Thunder it &s;elf &s;hall not break it.</P>
<P><HI>Brother Cajenquirago,</HI> and the re&s;t of our <HI>Brethren,</HI> We have, in the time that the Governours of this Pro|vince were called <HI>Corlaer,</HI> planted here in this pl&acirc;ce a Tree of Peace and Wellfair, who&s;e Roots and Branches extend them&s;elves as far as <HI>New-England, Connecticut, New-Jar&s;ey, Penn&s;ilvania, Maryland</HI> and <HI>Virginia,</HI> and whoever touches that Tree, which now we make green and &s;apid, or any of the Roots of it, we mu&s;t not only be &s;en&s;ible, to feel and re&s;ent it, but ri&s;e up, and unanimou&s;ly fall upon them that make that breach, to di&s;troy them.</P>
<P>We mu&s;t &agrave;cquaint you, That it has been an antient Cu&s;tom among the five Nations to keep their Meeting at <HI>Onnondage,</HI> which we are re&s;olved to continue there, and if upon Occa&s;ion &agrave;ny be &s;ent for from hence, to be pre&s;ent at our General Meeting, we de&s;ire that they may come up.</P>
<P><HI>Brother Caijenquirago,</HI> We have been di&s;obedient to
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your Commands, in going to <HI>Canada</HI> to treat with the <HI>French.</HI> We thought, becau&s;e our Brethren of <HI>New-England</HI> had treated with the Enemy, the <HI>French,</HI> to the Ea&s;tward, we might go and &s;ee whether there was any Peace concluded, or Treaty made to our prejudice; our jealou&s;ie ari&s;ing by rea&s;on of the <HI>French</HI> telling us, that <HI>Chavaleer Deaux</HI> was &s;ent back to <HI>Canada</HI> by them of <HI>New-England</HI> (whom we &s;aw in <HI>Canada,</HI> giving us a pieced of Money, as a Token that he was freed by the <HI>Engli&s;h</HI>) and therefore they told us, it was in vain for us to war again&s;t them, for the <HI>Engli&s;h</HI> will &s;et them at liberty again, as &s;oon &agrave;s they are taken.</P>
<P><HI>Brother Caijenquirago,</HI> We pray that your Excellency may order that Powder, Lead, Guns, and other Ammu|nition may be &s;old cheaper; and &s;ince <HI>Arnout</HI> is coming with &s;ome of the far Nations, it will be requi&s;ite that &s;uch Goods may be &s;old cheap, for their encouragement, that they may be thereby the ea&s;ier induced to come and live among us.</P>
<P>Brethren of <HI>New-England, Connecticut,</HI> the <HI>Jar&s;eys, Penn&s;ilvania, Maryland</HI> and <HI>Virginia,</HI> Hearken to what we now &s;ay, We have renewed the Covenant Chain with you all: We always depended much upon <HI>New-England</HI> to be the chief of them that put their hand into the Cove|nant Chain; we put more than ordinary confidence in your Integrity and readine&s;s to a&s;&s;i&s;t us in the common De|fence; and that you may &s;ee we are not forgetful of your Engagements, here is your Token of your being in the Covenant Chain, which (<HI>being a Salmon painted upon a blank Paper</HI>) you &s;ent us; look upon it, <HI>Brother Caijen|quirago:</HI> And we pre&s;ent to you, our <HI>Brother Coijequi|rago,</HI>
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a belt of Wampum, &agrave;s a token whereby we acknow|ledge you to be the Head of Covenant Chain, and that we de&s;ire you to give notice to all the Governments, that we have renewed the Covenant Chain with them, and de&s;ire their a&s;&s;i&s;tance again&s;t the common Enemy; which we pray you to put them in mind of.</P>
<P><HI>Brother Caijenquirago,</HI> We have &s;aid what we de&s;ign to &s;ay to Night, and &s;hall &s;pe&agrave;k to morrow concerning what has been tran&s;acted at <HI>Canada,</HI> by our People, and what Tokens we h&agrave;ve from the far Nations of <HI>Twichtwichs</HI> and <HI>Dionondades,</HI> to whom the Belts of Wampum were &s;ent. And we follow your cu&s;tom in giving our Pre&s;ent altogether. So gave a parcel of Beaver and P&egrave;ltry.</P>
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<HEAD>At a Meeting at <HI>Albany</HI> the 16th Day of <HI>Augu&s;t,</HI> 1694.</HEAD>
<LIST>
<HEAD>PRESENT</HEAD>
<ITEM>His Excellency <HI>Benjamin Fletcher, &amp;c.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Coll. <HI>Andrew Hamilton,</HI> Governour of <HI>Ea&s;t</HI> and <HI>We&s;t-Jar&s;ey.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><LIST>
<HEAD>Of Their Maie&s;ties Council for the Province of <HI>New-York.</HI></HEAD>
<ITEM>Coll. <HI>Stephen Cortland,</HI> </ITEM>
<ITEM>Coll. <HI>Nicholas Bayard,</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Coll <HI>William Smith,</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Chidley Brooke,</HI> <ABBR>E&s;q</ABBR> </ITEM>
<ITEM>Major <HI>Peter Schuyler,</HI></ITEM>
</LIST></ITEM>
<ITEM><LIST>
<HEAD>Commi&s;&s;ioners from the <HI>Ma&s;&s;achu&s;ets Bay</HI> in <HI>New-England.</HI></HEAD>
<ITEM>Coll. <HI>John Pincheon,</HI> </ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Samuell Sewell,</HI> <ABBR>E&s;q</ABBR></ITEM>
<ITEM>Major <HI>Penn Towne&s;end,</HI></ITEM>
</LIST></ITEM>
<ITEM><LIST>
<HEAD>Commi&s;&s;ioners from <HI>Connecticut</HI> Collony.</HEAD>
<ITEM>Coll. <HI>John Allyn,</HI> </ITEM>
<ITEM>Capt. <HI>Caleb Stanley,</HI></ITEM>
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<ITEM>The <HI>Sachims</HI> or <HI>Indian Kings.</HI></ITEM>
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<P><PB N="11" REF="7"><HI>Dekani&s;&s;ore</HI> (one of the Sachims of <HI>Onnondage</HI>) ro&s;e up, and &s;aid,</P>
<P><HI>Brother Caijenquirago,</HI> We, the five Nations of <HI>Indians</HI> We&s;tward, <HI>viz.</HI> the <HI>Mohaques, Oneydes, Onnondages, Cajouges and Senekes,</HI> did conclude to &s;end Me&s;&s;engers in the Spring to treat with the Governour of <HI>Canada;</HI> and I <HI>Dekani&s;&s;ore</HI> having been one of their Agents, am now come to relate what hath pa&s;&s;ed between him and me at <HI>Quebeck;</HI> therefore we pray our <HI>Brother Caijenquirago</HI> and our Brethren and Neighbours of <HI>New-England, Con|necticut, New-Jar&s;ey, Penn&s;ilvania, Maryland</HI> and <HI>Virginia,</HI> to heaken what we &s;hall &s;ay.</P>
<P>Since the Governor of <HI>Canada</HI> has &s;o often &s;ent for us to come to <HI>Canada,</HI> to treat with him, we went thither, and told him that we were come to &s;peak of Peace; then made the&s;e following Propo&s;itions to him, &s;aying,</P>
<P><HI>Father,</HI> If we do not conclude a Peace now, it will lie at your door, and not o&ucirc;rs; for we have already taken the Hatchet out of the Hands of the <HI>River Indians,</HI> (whom we invited to the War) in order to make Peace. But we mu&s;t tell you, that you are an ill man, for you have given the Hatchet into the Hands of the <HI>Dowa|ganhaes</HI> to hurt and di&s;troy us: you are uncon&s;tant, and not to be tru&s;ted.</P>
<P>We have had War &s;o long together, which was begun by your means, but we never hated the Hou&s;e of <HI>Ockque&s;e</HI> our Son (a Gentleman who lives in <HI>Mont Real</HI>) let him come that toyl&s;ome Journey to our Ca&s;tle at <HI>Onnondage</HI> if he plea&s;e, he &s;hall be wellcome.</P>
<P><HI>Father,</HI> We are now &s;peaking of Peace, and I mu&s;t
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&s;peak a word to your Praying Indians of the fir&s;t Ca&s;tle (call'd <HI>Cachannage.</HI>)</P>
<P>You <HI>Praying Indians</HI> of <HI>Canada,</HI> you know our cu&s;toms and methods of acting better than your Gover|nour, therefore we de&s;ire you to make him acquainted therewith, and be a&s;&s;i&s;tant in the pro&s;ecution of this good work of Peace that we are about.</P>
<P>And you <HI>Praying Indians</HI> of the &s;econd Ca&s;tle (call'd <HI>Canna&s;dage</HI>) you are wor&s;e than the <HI>French</HI> them&s;elves, you de&s;erted from us, and &s;ided with our Enemies to di&s;troy us; we tell you now to a&s;&s;i&s;t and give your help|ing hand in the pro&s;ecution of this good Work of Peace that we are now about with your Governour.</P>
<P><HI>Father,</HI> You have almo&s;t e&agrave;t us up, all our be&s;t men are di&s;troyed in this bloody War, but we forget all that is pa&s;t, we threw the Hatchet in the River at <HI>Cajohage,</HI> where there was a great current, but you found it again, and betrayed our People at <HI>Cadaracqui,</HI> after that you &s;ent for us to fetch Home our Pri&s;oners, whom you re|&s;tored. Then the Hatchet was thrown into the sky, but you held your hand at a &s;tring that was fa&s;tened to the Helve of the Hatchet, and pulled it down again, &agrave;nd fell upon our People; whereupon we took an opportunity to fall upon you at the I&s;land of <HI>Mount Real,</HI> where we di&s;troyed many of your People and Hou&s;es. Notwith&s;tanding all that hath pa&s;&s;ed, we wipe away and cover all the Blood that has been &s;hed on both &s;ides, during this War.</P>
<P><HI>Onondio,</HI> We have had Wars together a long time, we give you now a Cordial or Drink to drive away all ill Thoughts, and to purge your heart, that it may be clean,
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and re&s;tored to its former &s;tate, and that all ill Thoughts may be vomited out.</P>
<P><HI>Onondio,</HI> We will admit of no &s;ettlement at <HI>Cadarac|qui;</HI> you have had your fires there twice, which we have quenched, and therefore will not con&s;ent to any rebuild|ing <HI>Cadaracqui.</HI> We clear the River that you may have a clear Pa&s;&s;age throw it, and come freely to <HI>Onnondage.</HI></P>
<P><HI>Onondio,</HI> We make the Sun clear, and di&s;&s;ipate all Clouds and Darkne&s;s, that the Light may appear without any interruption.</P>
<P><HI>Onondio,</HI> During this War we have taken Pri&s;oners from one another; we delivered over ours to the Families that lo&s;t their People in the War, according to our Cu&s;tom, who may deliver them, if they plea&s;e, they are none of ours; and your People may do the &s;ame. Here are two Pri&s;oners which we have brought along with us, whom we deliver unto you.</P>
<P>Then related the Di&s;cour&s;e the Governour of <HI>Canada</HI> made to him.</P>
<P>After I had made an end of &s;peaking, the Governour of <HI>Canada</HI> told me, he would not make Peace with <HI>Caijenquirago.</HI> Whereupon I an&s;wered, The&s;e words do not plea&s;e me, you &s;hall k&eacute;ep Peace with him.</P>
<P><HI>Onondio</HI> &s;aid, I mu&s;t fight again&s;t <HI>Cajenquirago,</HI> I am not Ma&s;ter to make Peace, that belongs to my Ma&s;ter the King of <HI>France</HI> that lives over the great Water.</P>
<P>I replyed, I do not like this Di&s;cour&s;e, if you &s;hould fight him now, and not &s;tay till I get Home, all the Country will e&s;teem me a Traytor, and that I have be|trayed my Country; I cannot meddle to treat with you. This Di&s;co&ucirc;r&s;e la&s;ted between the Governour of <HI>Canada</HI>
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and me three days; but I convinced the Governour of <HI>Canada</HI> at la&s;t, who &s;aid, I will not make war with <HI>Caijen|quirago</HI> this Summer, but wait to hear what he will &s;ay.</P>
<P>The Governour of <HI>Canada</HI> in&s;i&s;ted three days to have two Ho&s;tages left, which I denyed, but they agreeing them&s;elves freely to tarry, were left there; one is an <HI>Onnondage,</HI> the other a <HI>Seneke.</HI></P>
<P>As &s;oon as the two Ho&s;tages agreed to tarry, the Gover|nour of <HI>C&acirc;nada</HI> &s;aid, <HI>I accept of the Peace as you offer it.</HI></P>
<P><HI>Son,</HI> Bring all the Pri&s;oners home that you have taken from me, and your Pri&s;oners &s;hall have their liberty to go home, if they plea&s;e.</P>
<P><HI>Children,</HI> I erect my Fire again at <HI>Cadaracqui,</HI> and pl&agrave;nt there a Tree of Peace. Then laid down a Belt of Wampum. And de&s;ired that <HI>Caijenquirago</HI> would &s;end a Wi&s;e Man to &s;peak to him, who &s;hould have free pro|tection, as is cu&s;tomary among Chri&s;tians.</P>
<P><HI>Children of the five Nations,</HI> If <HI>Cajenquirago</HI> &s;hould imploy you to do any thing for him with me, don't accept of the &s;ervice, let him &s;end people of his own, there are eighty days appointed me for an an&s;wer. Then laid down the Governour of <HI>Canada</HI> his Belt of Wampum to <HI>Caijenquirago.</HI></P>
<P>The Sachims of the <HI>Dionondades</HI> were at <HI>Canada,</HI> and &s;aid to me, Let this which you have &s;aid of Peace be from your Heart; we fear it is but Words, and not Real, do not let us feel the &s;mart of the Hatchet any longer. Then they laid down a Belt of Wampum, which I &s;how unto your Excellency, laying it down.</P>
<P>The &s;econd Ca&s;tle of praying Indians, &s;aid, <HI>Brethren,</HI> Our Father <HI>Onondie</HI> has told you to bring Home all the
<PB N="15" REF="9">
Pri&s;oners taken from hence by the five Nations, do not fail to do it. Then gave two Belts of Wampum.</P>
<P><HI>Brother Caijenquirago,</HI> What I havae now &s;aid, is con|tained in the Paper which the Governour of Can&agrave;da gave me, which paper I deliver to your Excellency, and tell you withal, that I brought Letters to the Je&s;uite <HI>Milet</HI> at <HI>Oneyde,</HI> who was to inform us what is in the paper.</P>
<P>His Excellency &s;aid then,</P>
<P><HI>Brethren,</HI> I reject this Belt of Wampum &s;ent by the Governour of Canada, and will give you my Rea&s;ons for it, upon a Conference with the Sachims, or when I make my Reply to the whole five Nations.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="session">
<HEAD>At a Meeting at <HI>Albany</HI> the 17th Day of <HI>Augu&s;t,</HI> 1694.</HEAD>
<P>Pre&s;ent <HI>His Excellency Benjamin Fletcher, and tho&s;e who were at the Meeting ye&s;terday.</HI></P>
<P><HI>SAdekanacktie</HI> &s;ong a long Song of Peace, and &s;aid, I &s;hall now relate what hath pa&s;&s;ed between the <HI>Do|wag&agrave;nhaes,</HI> the <HI>Dionondades,</HI> and us, to whom we &s;ent &s;ome Belts of Peace.</P>
<P>They &s;aid, You had &s;ome pri&s;oners of the <HI>Dionondades</HI> in your Ca&s;tles, whom you &s;ent Home to their Country with the Belts of Wampum from <HI>Caijenquirago</HI> and You
<PB N="16" REF="10">
to &s;peak of Peace, fearing to bring the Belts your &s;elves, the War was &s;o hot. And after you had &s;ent the &s;aid Pri&s;oners back, &s;ome of your People being out hunting, two were taken pri&s;oners by the <HI>Dionondades,</HI> and brought to their Ca&s;tles, but were civilly u&s;ed, and not like pri&s;oners. The <HI>Dionondades</HI> &s;aid to the two Pri&s;oners that were brought thither, We are glad that we have an opportunity to &s;peak to you face to face, the Sun has been &s;o propitious to us to &s;end us Home our pri&s;oners. Then gave a few &s;trings of Wampum.</P>
<P>We are glad of this occa&s;ion to &s;peak to you here. We have been drunk and di&s;tracted in waring one again&s;t the other. We give you now a Cordial and Potion to &s;ettle your heart, that there may be no more War between us. They gave a Belt of Wampum.</P>
<P>We are glad to &s;ee you here, and that you tell us, that your Doors are open as far as <HI>Caijenquirago's</HI> Hou&s;e at <HI>New-York,</HI> that we may freely &s;ee through thither. They gave this belt of VVampum.</P>
<P><HI>Brethren,</HI> VVe are thankful that you have prepared a Room for us at <HI>Onondage,</HI> where we may &s;peak freely to one another: Our whole Country is free for you to come and treat with us; we make room for you accor|dingly. Then gave a Belt of VVampum.</P>
<P><HI>Brethren,</HI> VVe are glad that you invite us to your Country, q~uite even to the Hou&s;e of <HI>Caijenquirago:</HI> All our River is rejoyced at it; be not afraid to come hither, you &s;hall be freely admitted, without any mole&s;tation. Then gave another belt of VVampum.</P>
<P><HI>Brethren,</HI> VVe are thankful for your putting us in mind of what we have tran&s;acted formerly, That if any Mi&s;|chief
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happened between us, we are to meet, and compo&s;e Differences. VVe are now met together to put a period to all our Mi&s;-under&s;tandings, which is a matter of great Rejoycing to all our River. Then gave a belt of black Wampum.</P>
<P><HI>Brethren,</HI> Hearken to us, All the Nations between Us and <HI>New-York,</HI> we rent the Clouds a&s;under, and drive all Darkne&s;s out of the Sky, that the Sun of Peace may &s;hine clear and bright over us all, without interruption. Then gave a &s;tone Tobacco pipe, repre&s;enting the Sun, of the breadth of the Seal of the Province.</P>
<P><HI>Brethren,</HI> We put the Hatchet into the Hands of the <HI>Kichtages, Twichtwiches</HI> and <HI>Od&s;irages,</HI> to war again&s;t the <HI>five Nations,</HI> but now we will go in three days to tho&s;e Nations, and take the Hatchet out of their hand, (Then took hold of the middle of a &s;tone Tobacco-pipe in form of a Hatchet) You <HI>Senekes</HI> are &s;tupid Crea|tures, we warn you in the mean time not to go hunting far from your Ca&s;tles, that you be not hurt by the &s;aid Nations, and then accu&s;e us. Then gave the Tobacco-pipe.</P>
<P>I have done what pa&s;&s;ed between our two <HI>Indians</HI> and the <HI>Dionondades.</HI> Now I apply my &s;elf to your Ex|cellency.</P>
<P><HI>Brother Caijenquirago,</HI> We de&s;ire the &s;aid far <HI>Indians</HI> may be admitted to come no further than the <HI>Senekes</HI> Country; for if they &s;hould come quite down &s;o far as this place, they will &s;ee what &agrave; poor mean condition we are in, and be Spyes, and &s;o di&s;cover our Nakedne&s;s; for the&s;e <HI>Indians</HI> are Allyes of the Governour of <HI>Canada.</HI></P>
<P><PB N="18" REF="11">His Excellency &s;aid,</P>
<P><HI>Brethren,</HI> Your Di&s;cour&s;e has been very long, and con&s;i&s;ts of many Heads; it will require &s;ome time for my con&s;ideration. I will give you Notice when you &s;hall attend for my An&s;wer.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="session">
<HEAD>A Conference held at a private Hou&s;e in <HI>Albany</HI> the 20th of <HI>Augu&s;t,</HI> 1694.</HEAD>
<P><HI>Between his Excellency</HI> Benjamin Fletcher, &amp;c. <HI>and the Sachims of the five Nations.</HI></P>
<P>In the Pre&s;ence of
<LIST>
<ITEM>Coll. <HI>Andrew Hamilton,</HI> Governor of the <HI>Jar&s;eys.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>The Council of the Province of</HI> New-York.</ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>And the Commi&s;&s;ioners from</HI> Bo&s;ton <HI>and</HI> Connecticut.</ITEM>
</LIST></P>
<P>Sadekanacktie, <HI>Speaker of the Indians.</HI></P>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>His Excellency &s;aid,</SPEAKER>
<P>I Do very well approve of what you &s;aid the fir&s;t day, in renewing the Covenant Chain, which &s;hall always be kept inviolably by me and all the <HI>Engli&s;h Plantations.</HI></P>
<P>Is Peace firmly concluded?</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Sadekanacktie,</SPEAKER>
<P>We have made Peace, provided you opprove of it;
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and the rea&s;on of our going to <HI>Canada</HI> was to found the Governour of <HI>Canada</HI>'s mind, becau&s;e we had no body but <HI>Caijenquirago</HI>'s People that went out to war with us ag&acirc;in&s;t the <HI>French,</HI> and it is impo&s;&s;ible for us to be any longer the Barrier between the <HI>Engli&s;h</HI> and <HI>French.</HI> We have now brought our Enemies An&s;wer, which is laid at <HI>Ca|ijenquirago</HI>'s feet, and refer the whole matter to your pru|dent management.</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>His Excellency,</SPEAKER>
<P>Why do you &s;ay you have made Peace, provided I approve of it? You know you have &s;ent Sachims to <HI>Canada,</HI> contrary to your promi&s;e, and my expre&s;s com|mand; you have made a Peace without any provi&s;o, you have delivered Ho&s;tages, and relea&s;ed Pri&s;oners, and de|clare that you are weary of the War, and not able to hold it longer, &s;o that there is nothing left for me, but either to acquie&s;e with what you have done, or to make war upon you. But &s;ince you have renewed the Covenant Chain, and while you pre&s;erve that inviolable, I &s;hall (to u&s;e your own Expre&s;&s;ion) tye up my Hatchet from hurt|ing you. I can make no Peace with the Governour of <HI>C&acirc;nada.</HI></P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Sadekanacktie,</SPEAKER>
<P>Why do you doubt our integrity and fidelity in keep|ing the Covenant Chain firm&punc; and inviolable with all our Brethren that &agrave;re linked therein? The lea&s;t Member can|not be touched, but the whole Body mu&s;t feel and be &s;en|&s;ible; if therefore an Enemy hurt the lea&s;t part of the Covenant Chain, we will joyn to di&s;troy that Enemy; for we are one Head, one Fle&s;h, and one Blood.</P>
</SP>
<SP>
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<SPEAKER>His Excellency,</SPEAKER>
<P>I &s;hall al&s;o maintain the Peace with all tho&s;e Nations of <HI>Indians</HI> which you have entered into Allyance with, upon your Engagement that they commit no acts of Ho|&s;tility again&s;t any of their Maje&s;ties Subjects.</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Sadekanacktie,</SPEAKER>
<P>We thought that our Treaty with the <HI>French</HI> would have had no &s;ucce&s;s, becau&s;e yo&ucirc;r Excellency rejected the belt of Wampum which the Governour of <HI>Canada</HI> &s;ent to your Excellency, to de&s;ire a Me&s;&s;enger may be &s;ent thither; and &s;ince the Governour of <HI>Canada</HI> forbids us to bring any Me&s;&s;age from you to him, we think it will be requi&s;ite that you &s;hould &s;end &s;ome body to a neutral place, where there may be a Conference between the two Governments.</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>His Excellency,</SPEAKER>
<P>I &s;ay again, what I &s;aid before, I cannot treat of Peace with the Governour of <HI>Canada,</HI> nor receive any Me&s;&s;age from him, and therefore I did reject this belt of Wampum, as I do renounce any corre&s;pondence with him; the Go|vernour of <HI>Canada</HI> hath put this fallacy upon you to bring this belt unto me, which he knew I could not receive. I find by what the Governour of <HI>Canada</HI> &s;ays, he intends to rebuild <HI>Cadaracqui.</HI></P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Sadekanacktie,</SPEAKER>
<P>We have told the Governour of <HI>Canada</HI> already; that he &s;hall not rebuild <HI>Cadaracqui,</HI> and if we come to di&s;|cour&s;e him again, &s;h&agrave;ll tell him plainly, that we will not &s;uffer it.</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>His Excellency,</SPEAKER>
<P>You will do very well to hinder him from building that
<PB N="21" REF="12">
Fort, or any other near the Lake; if you &s;uffer it, 'twill be a bre&agrave;ch of the Covenant Chain, and bring a Sl&agrave;very upon your &s;elves and Po&s;terity. I am bound to make war, and prevent any Incroachment upon this Province; it is your Duty to give me notice, &s;o &s;oon as you h&eacute;ar of their motion that way, that I may bring Forces to ob&s;truct them; and I expect that you &s;hall joyn your Forces with me, otherwi&s;e all your pretences to the Renewal of the Co|venant Chain are fallacious.</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Sadekanacktie,</SPEAKER>
<P>We are glad you renew that to us, we &s;hall never &s;uffer that place to be built, it has been Omnious to us, our people having been betrayed there.</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>His Excellency,</SPEAKER>
<P>I have often c&agrave;utioned you from giving credit to the Je&s;uit <HI>Milet,</HI> who has alwayes betrayed you, therefore you mu&s;t &s;uffer none of that Tribe of Je&s;uites to come into your C&agrave;&s;tles. I h&agrave;ve formerly warned you of this, and now you &s;ee the evil of it. It is not for your Honour, that you who are the antiente&s;t and mo&s;t War-like Nations of Indians upon this Continent, &s;hould creep &s;o low, as to go and ask a Peace from the Governour of <HI>Canada;</HI> I expect that the <HI>French Indians</HI> &s;hould likewi&s;e come and creep to me, and ask Peace, as you have ba&s;ely done to the Governour of <HI>Canada.</HI></P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Sadekanacktie,</SPEAKER>
<P>Since you cannot &s;end Me&s;&s;engers to <HI>Canada,</HI> we de&s;ire that you would write to the Governour of <HI>Canada,</HI> and al&s;o to the great King, your Ma&s;ter; and we de&s;ire the Governour of <HI>Canada</HI> write to his Ma&s;ter, That there may be Peace concluded in the&s;e parts.</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<PB N="22" REF="13">
<SPEAKER>His Excellency,</SPEAKER>
<P>Let me fir&s;t &s;ee the <HI>French Indians</HI> come down and de&s;ire Peace of me, as you have gone to <HI>Count Frontimac,</HI> and then I will con&s;ider what may be proper for me to do.</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Sadekanacktie,</SPEAKER>
<P>You &s;ay, we have &s;toopt &s;o low to the <HI>French</HI> for Peace, but before ever we went thither, they had &s;ent two Me&s;|&s;engers for us to our Ca&s;tles.</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>His Excellency,</SPEAKER>
<P>The French paper you brought from Canada, &s;ayes, you bowed low to <HI>Count Frontimac,</HI> and &s;toopt as if he were your &s;overaign Prince, and made &s;how of your Re|pentance for all what you have done again&s;t him.</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Sadekanackti,</SPEAKER>
<P>The Governour of Canada need not to reflect upon us with his Writing, for how often has he &s;ent Belts of Wampum to us by all Occa&s;ions, to make Peace with him?</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>His Excellency,</SPEAKER>
<P>But he makes you his Children, and &s;o you are liable to his correction, when he plea&s;eth;</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Sadekanacktie,</SPEAKER>
<P>It is only a Name that we have given him, becau&s;e he calleth us Children, not that we own him as our Father.</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>His Excellency,</SPEAKER>
<P>But I expect an An&s;wer from you, that the French Indians &s;hould come to me, and de&s;ire to bury the Hatchet, as you have gone to Canada to do the like; it is for your Honour that you make them do it.</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<PB N="23" REF="13">
<SPEAKER>Sadekanacktie,</SPEAKER>
<P>The Praying Indians of <HI>Canada</HI> &s;aid to <HI>Dek&acirc;ni&s;&s;ore,</HI> whaen he was there, That they would hold the Peace fa&s;t which their Father, the Governour of <HI>Canada,</HI> had made with the five Nations, yea, as firm as they do the Chri&s;tian Faith; and that &s;undry of them were ready to come hither a fighting, but were &s;topt upon <HI>Dekani&s;&s;ore</HI>'s coming thither, and our Indian Pri&s;oners, that were taken by the <HI>French</HI> and Indians, were &s;et at liberty.</P>
<P>How &s;hall we behave our &s;elves? If we do not go to <HI>Canada</HI> there will be no confirmation of the Peace; and if they come to us in our Country, and ask what our Gover|nour &s;ays to the matter, What &s;hall we &s;ay?</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>His Excellency,</SPEAKER>
<P>It is po&s;&s;ible they may keep the Peace with you, but if any of them commit the l&eacute;a&s;t Outrage upon any of their Maje&s;ties Subjects in the Covenant Chain, you mu&s;t be accountable for it; for the only Rea&s;on why I acquie&s;e with this Peace you have made, contrary to my command and your own Engagements, is, becau&s;e I am unwilling to make war again&s;t you, or &s;pill your Blood; I rather ch&ucirc;&s;e to forgive what is pa&s;t, and advi&s;e you for the fu|ture, that you may not be brought into Sl&agrave;very, which is by keeping a &s;trict and vigilent Eye upon the deceitful French, and their Indians, as when they were in War with you.</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Sadekanacktie,</SPEAKER>
<P>We thank you for your caution about the <HI>French,</HI> and de&s;ire you and the Neighbouring Collonies may take care of this place, that it may be fortified, lea&s;t they &s;hould &s;urprize it.</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<PB N="24" REF="14">
<SPEAKER>His Excellency,</SPEAKER>
<P>It &s;hall be done. The Garri&s;on &s;hall be &s;ecured again&s;t all the force of <HI>Canada.</HI> The Ea&s;tern Indians have fallen upon <HI>New-England,</HI> notwith&s;tanding the Peace &s;o lately made with that Collony, who are part of the Covenant Chain, and have &s;pilt much Blood; you mu&s;t therefore con&s;ider of a way to make them bury their Hatchet, and not to war upon our Brethren of <HI>New-England.</HI></P>
</SP>
<STAGE>Afternoon the &s;ame day.</STAGE>
<STAGE>The Sachims came together to give an An&s;wer to the Propo&s;al concerning the Ea&s;tern Indians. <HI>Sadekanacktie</HI> Speaker.</STAGE>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Sadekanacktie,</SPEAKER>
<P>We cannot &s;end to the Ea&s;tern Indians, having no Men fit for that purpo&s;e, but being now bound to <HI>Canada,</HI> will tell the Governour of <HI>Canada</HI> to charge the&s;e Ea&s;tern Indians to lay down their Hatchet; for if we go fir&s;t to the Ea&s;tern Indians, they can do nothing without the Governour of <HI>Can&agrave;da,</HI> and that would but prolong time, therefore it will be be&s;t to do it directly by the Governour of <HI>Canada.</HI></P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>His Excellency,</SPEAKER>
<P>You mu&s;t not think that ever <HI>Count Frontimac</HI> will cau&s;e the Ea&s;tern Indians make Peace, you mu&s;t there|fore think of &s;ome other way to oblige them to l&agrave;y down the Hatchet; for the Governour of <HI>Canada</HI> mu&s;t not be depended upon: You will always find him uncon&s;tant, as hitherto.</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<PB N="25" REF="14">
<SPEAKER>Sadekanacktie,</SPEAKER>
<P>We de&s;ire to know whether we &s;hall &s;peak to the far Indians, the <HI>Dionondades</HI> at <HI>Canada,</HI> if we &s;hall &s;ee them there, (which we expect) &s;ince they are the Governour of <HI>Canada's Indians,</HI> or that we pur&s;ue the method we have begun, and &s;peak to them in their own Country?</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>His Excellency,</SPEAKER>
<P>Though you have Peace with the <HI>French</HI> and their Indians, you mu&s;t not expect that it will be la&s;ting, if the French Indians &s;hould continue to do Mi&s;chief to the Brethren of <HI>New-England.</HI> As for Peace with the far Indians, I leave you to your own Methods, with this cau|tion, that you be not rocked a &s;leep by it.</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Sadekanacktie,</SPEAKER>
<P>We de&s;ire that Goods may be &s;old cheap when tho&s;e far Indians come; then this place will be de&s;irable, like a fair Maid that has many Lovers, &s;o all people will flock hither; al&s;o, that tho&s;e <HI>Indians</HI> that come with <HI>Arnout,</HI> may be civilly entertained, then they will &s;ettle among&s;t us.</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>His Excellency,</SPEAKER>
<P>I doubt not but they will find content in the Rate of Goods.</P>
<P>The Peace made &s;ometime &agrave; go between the Indians to the Ea&s;tward and <HI>New-England,</HI> did no ways hurt the Covenant Chain; for tho&s;e Indians were at that time in Peace with you of the <HI>five Nations.</HI> And as for what you &s;ay of <HI>Chavaleer Deaux,</HI> it is nothing but <HI>French</HI> fallacy, he was not &s;et at liberty by the people of <HI>New-Engla&acirc;d,</HI> (as I am informed) but broke Pri&s;on, and was pur&s;ued.</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<PB N="26" REF="15">
<SPEAKER>Sadekanacktie,</SPEAKER>
<P>When we come to our Country, we will con&s;ult what to do about the far Indians; and when we come to <HI>Canada</HI> we will &s;peak to the <HI>Praying Indians</HI> to come hither and make Peace with your Excellency; we wi&s;h we had one that could write all what hath pa&s;&s;ed, but will, never the le&s;s, bring an account to your Excellency of all what occurs.</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>His Excellency,</SPEAKER>
<P>It behoves you to be upon your guard, notwith&s;tand|ing the Peace, to keep your Gates &s;hut at Night, and good Scouts out, and if there be any party, either <HI>French</HI> or <HI>Indians</HI> approaching, forth-with give me an account, &acirc;nd frequently corre&s;pond with me. I will &s;trengthen this Garri&s;on, and &s;ecure it from all attempts of the Enemy.</P>
<P>As for your meeting at <HI>Onnondage,</HI> I am not again&s;t it, neither did I ever oppo&s;e your con&s;ulting of your own private Affairs, yet I cannot &s;end up any to your Meeting at <HI>Onnondage,</HI> to con&s;ult of tho&s;e Affairs which concern the whole Covenant Chain, wherein &s;o many Provinces are included, whereof you own me to be the Head. I always expect to be Per&s;onally pre&s;ent on &s;uch Occa&s;ions.</P>
<P>I will renew the Covenant Chain to morrow, and give you &s;ome Pre&s;ents from their Maje&s;ties of <HI>Great Brittain.</HI></P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Sadekanacktie,</SPEAKER>
<P>We are obliged to your Excellency for your good Advice, not to be too &s;ecure, but to keep watch and look out, which we promi&s;e to do; and if we &s;ee any
<PB N="27" REF="15">
Troops of French and Indians, we have but one Eye and one Ear, whatever we &s;ee and hear, your Excellency &s;hall &s;ee and hear forth-with, we will immediately acquaint your Excellency. And &s;ince it is probable that there may be &s;ome among&s;t us that wiil give the <HI>French</HI> an account of all, we de&s;ire that your Excellency in your publick Di&s;cour&s;e to morrow will pa&s;s it by.</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>His Excellency,</SPEAKER>
<P>The <HI>Senekes</HI> of late have &s;ent a Belt of Wampum to the <HI>Indians</HI> of <HI>Delaware River,</HI> requiring them to take &ucirc;p the Hatchet of War, and fight along with them, which frightened tho&s;e peaceable Indians, that live among a peaceable People, who are no Warriours. And &s;ince they are in my Government of <HI>Penn&s;ilvania,</HI> I charge the <HI>Senekes</HI> not to frighten them, but to let them alone.</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Sadekanacktie,</SPEAKER>
<P>We know nothing of any &s;uch Belt &s;ent by us, pro|bably tho&s;e Indians that are fled from us, and live upon the <HI>Sn&s;quahannah River</HI> may have &s;ent &s;uch a Me&s;&s;age.</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>His Excellency,</SPEAKER>
<P>I injoyn you, in renewing the Peace with tho&s;e Indians, to let them know, that they mu&s;t not di&s;turb the <HI>Dela|ware Indians,</HI> nor the Inhabitants of the Province of <HI>Penn&s;ilvania.</HI></P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Sadekanacktie,</SPEAKER>
<P>We think we have di&s;cour&s;ed of all matters, and tho&s;e things we made no Re&s;pon&s;e to, mu&s;t be taken for granted.</P>
<P>We de&s;ire that your Excellency will begin early to morrow to &s;peak, and give &s;uch Pre&s;ents as you will be|&s;tow
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upon us; for we will &s;end a Po&s;t to the <HI>Senekes</HI> Country to prepare all things for our Journey and Nego|tiation with the far <HI>Indians</HI> and <HI>Canada.</HI></P>
</SP>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="session">
<HEAD>At a Meeting at <HI>Albany,</HI> the 22th Day of <HI>Augu&s;t,</HI> 1694.</HEAD>
<P><HI>Pre&s;ent,</HI>
<LIST>
<ITEM>His Excellency <HI>Benjamin Fletcher, &amp;e.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Coll. <HI>Andrew Hamilton,</HI> Governor of the <HI>Jar&s;eys.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>The Council of <HI>New-York,</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Commi&s;&s;ioners from <HI>Bo&s;ton</HI> and <HI>Connecticut,</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>The Sachims and Indians of the five Nations.</ITEM>
</LIST></P>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>His Excellency,</SPEAKER>
<P><HI>BRETHREN,</HI></P>
<P>I Am now to repeat in publick part of what pa&s;&s;ed in my private Conference ye&s;terday with your Sachims.</P>
<P>I do approve of what you &s;aid to me, in renewing the Covenant Chain; I &s;hall alwayes inviolably pre&s;erve it on my part, but mu&s;t declare my di&s;like to your proceedings towards the Peace, and do appeal to the wi&s;e&s;t of your Sachims, whether you have not broke it on your parts; but &s;ince you confe&s;s your error, and &s;ay you are weary of the War, and &s;olemnly engage to be &s;te&s;tfa&s;t to the Covenant Chain, I am unwilling to pur&s;ue you with
<PB N="29" REF="16">
Rigour, but rather acquie&s;e, though at the &s;ame time you mu&s;t allow we have alwayes made your Quarrels our own, and e&s;pou&s;ed the War you had again&s;t the French of <HI>Canada,</HI> in friend&s;hip to you, when the Crowns of <HI>England</HI> and <HI>France</HI> were in perfect Peace.</P>
<P><HI>Brethren,</HI> The Rea&s;ons for my rejecting the Belt pre|tended to be &s;ent by the the Governour of <HI>Canada,</HI> I h&agrave;ve given already to the Sachims: I &s;hall only &s;ay here, I cannot make peace with him.</P>
<P>But as it is to your &s;hame and di&s;-honour, who are the Antiente&s;t &agrave;nd mo&s;t War-like Nations of Indians, to have bowed &s;o low to the Governour of <HI>Canada,</HI> and ask his Peace, as from a Father, &s;o you ought to do your &s;elves that Ju&s;tice &agrave;nd Honour, to cau&s;e the <HI>Praying Indians</HI> of <HI>Canada</HI> to come and ask me to bury my Hatchet again&s;t them.</P>
<P><HI>Dekani&s;&s;ore</HI> did well and prudently to tell the Governor of <HI>Canada,</HI> That you will not admit him to rebuild <HI>Cadaracqui</HI> (which is his intention) If you &s;uffer the <HI>French</HI> once to &s;ettle a Garri&s;on there, or near the Lake (be their pretences never &s;o plau&s;ible) they will bring you &agrave;nd your Po&s;terity into perpetual Bondage and Slavery.</P>
<P><HI>Brethren,</HI> You mu&s;t unite your force and oppo&s;e this De&s;ign; I &s;hall be ready to defeat it, if you will give me timely Notice, &agrave;nd your A&s;&s;i&s;tance.</P>
<P>I do not pretend to hinder your antient cu&s;tom of Meeting at <HI>Onnondage,</HI> to con&s;ult of your own Affairs, only when <HI>Peace</HI> and <HI>War</HI> is treated of, I am obliged
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to be pre&s;ent, and expect the&s;e Treaties &s;hall be held at <HI>Albany,</HI> where the Covenant Chain had its fir&s;t Birth.</P>
<P><HI>Brethren,</HI> That Peace which <HI>New-England</HI> &s;ome time a go made with the Ea&s;t&eacute;rn Indians, did no wayes hurt the Covenant Chain, for the&s;e Indians were then in Peace with the five Nations.</P>
<P>The&s;e Indians have lately taken up the Hatchet again, and &s;hed much Blood in that Province, who are Mem|bers of the Covenant Chain, you mu&s;t therefore con&s;ider of a way &s;peedily to &s;natch the Hatchet out of their hands, that all the Covenant Chain may enjoy Peace.</P>
<P><HI>Chavaleer Deaux</HI> was not (as you alledge) &s;et at liberty by the People of <HI>New-England,</HI> but made his e&s;cape to <HI>Canada.</HI></P>
<P>I &s;hall take care that the far <HI>Indians,</HI> to come with <HI>Arnout,</HI> be civilly treated, and have their Maje&s;ties Protection.</P>
<P><HI>Brethren,</HI> You h&agrave;ve~ made a Peace which cannot la&s;t, if you &s;uffer the <HI>French</HI> or any of their <HI>Indians</HI> to com|mit the lea&s;t Outrage or Act of Ho&s;tility again&s;t any of the Subjects of my great Ma&s;ter and Mi&s;tri&s;s, the King and Queen of <HI>England,</HI> I mu&s;t take up Arms for their Defence.</P>
<P><HI>I have a few words of Advice to give you.</HI></P>
<P>You are going to <HI>Canada,</HI> yo&ucirc; mu&s;t not tru&s;t too many of your Sachims there, it is too great a &s;tock to venture at once.</P>
<P><PB N="31" REF="17">You mu&s;t not, during their ab&s;ence, &s;uffer your Young Men to depart from your Ca&s;tles. Yon mu&s;t not hearken to the Coun&s;el of the Je&s;uite <HI>Milet,</HI> nor &s;uffer any of that Tribe to live among&s;t you.</P>
<P>And you mu&s;t look out, and b&eacute; &s;ure give me timely Notice of the <HI>French</HI> approaching to rebuild <HI>Cada|racqui,</HI> or marching again&s;t any of their Maje&s;ties Pro|vinces, that I may move with force to repel them.</P>
<P>And now, <HI>Brethren,</HI> I do hereby renew the Covenant Chain, in the Names of their Maje&s;ties of <HI>Great Britain,</HI> on behalf of their Subjects of <HI>New-Engla&acirc;d, Connecti|cut, New-York, Ea&s;t</HI> and <HI>We&s;t-Jar&s;ey, Penn&s;ilvania, Maryland</HI> and <HI>Virginia,</HI> and all other their Maje&s;ties Dominions on this Main of <HI>America;</HI> and I lay down this Belt of Wampum as a Seal.</P>
<P><HI>Brethren,</HI> You have declared me the Head of the Co|venant Chain; I do declare that I will inviolably defend and pre&s;erve it, to the outmo&s;t drop of my Blood, while you on your parts perform your agreement. And in the Name of their Maje&s;ties, the great King and Queen of <HI>England,</HI> and for their Maje&s;ties Subjects of <HI>New-Eng|land, Connecticut, New-York, Ea&s;t</HI> and <HI>We&s;t-Jar&s;ey, Penn&s;ilvania, Maryland</HI> and <HI>Virginia,</HI> lay down the&s;e Pre&s;ents.</P>
</SP>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="session">
<PB N="32" REF="18">
<HEAD>The Addre&s;s of the River Indians, to his Excellency <HI>Benjamin Fletcher, &amp;c.</HI> at <HI>Albany, Augu&s;t</HI> the 18th, 1694.</HEAD>
<LIST>
<HEAD>PRESENT</HEAD>
<ITEM>His Excellency <HI>Benjamin Fletcher, &amp;c.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Coll. <HI>Andrew Hamilton,</HI> Governour of <HI>Ea&s;t</HI> and <HI>We&s;t-Jar&s;ey.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><LIST>
<HEAD>Of Their Maje&s;ties Council for the Province of <HI>New-York.</HI></HEAD>
<ITEM>Coll. <HI>Stephen Cortland,</HI> </ITEM>
<ITEM>Coll. <HI>Nicholas Bayard,</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Coll <HI>William Smith,</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Chidley Brooke,</HI> <ABBR>E&s;q</ABBR></ITEM>
<ITEM>Major <HI>Peter Schuyler,</HI></ITEM>
</LIST></ITEM>
<ITEM>A Sachim Speaker.</ITEM>
</LIST>
<SP>
<P><HI>Father,</HI></P>
<P>IN the time of Old, we River Indians were a &s;trong Nation, but are much decayed by the War, and are now become a weak mean People, as you &s;ee we are, in|&s;omuch that we dare not &s;hake Hand with your Excellency, Then gave two Beaver Skins.</P>
<P><HI>Father,</HI> We are come hither as your Children, accor|ding to our Duty; we have been Obedient to all your Commands, which Major <HI>Schuyler</HI> can witne&s;s, and
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&s;hall continue to be Obedient, and firm to the Govern|ment; We never have been ordered out upon occa&s;ion of any incur&s;ions of the Enemy, but we were always ready. Then gave &s;ome more Beaver.</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>His Excellency An&s;wered,</SPEAKER>
<P>I do accept of the Te&s;timony of your Obedience kindly, as if your Pre&s;ents were a Thou&s;and times more: you &s;hall not want the Protection of this Government, which &s;hall be able to &s;ecure you from any force that can be brought again&s;t you. I &s;hall, before I go, give &s;ome Te&s;timony of that Re&s;pect my great M&agrave;&s;ter and Mi&s;tri&s;s, the King and Queen, bear to them that ar&eacute; Obedient Subjects.</P>
</SP>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="session">
<PB N="34" REF="19">
<HEAD>The An&s;wer which his Excellency <HI>Benjamin Fletcher, &amp;c.</HI> gave to the River Indians at <HI>Albany, Augu&s;t</HI> the 22th, 1694.</HEAD>
<LIST>
<HEAD>Pre&s;ent,</HEAD>
<ITEM>His Excellency <HI>Benjam&iacute;n Fletcher, &amp;c.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Coll. <HI>Addrew Hamilton,</HI> Governour of the <HI>Jar&s;eys.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><LIST>
<HEAD>Of Their Maje&s;ties Council for the Province of <HI>New-York.</HI></HEAD>
<ITEM>Coll. <HI>Stephen Cortland,</HI> </ITEM>
<ITEM>Coll. <HI>Nicholas Bayard,</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Coll. <HI>William Smith,</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Chidley Brooke,</HI> <ABBR>E&s;q</ABBR></ITEM>
<ITEM>Major <HI>Peter Schuyler,</HI></ITEM>
</LIST></ITEM>
<ITEM>The River Indians,</ITEM>
</LIST>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>His Excellency,</SPEAKER>
<P>I Am informed, that one of your People this la&s;t Winter was accidentally killed by the Slea of a Chri&s;tian, which drove over him upon the Ice un&agrave;wares. I give this bundle of Wampum to wipe off that Blood.</P>
<P><HI>Children,</HI> I have heard a good Character of you, that you have behaved your &s;elves like obedient Children and good Subjects to the great King and Queen of <HI>England:</HI> I charge you to keep a good VVatch abroad, that you be able to adverti&s;e me of any approach of the Enemy;
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and if you find any skulking Parties, you are to di&s;troy them. And further, you are to obey &s;uch Orders and Commands as you &s;hall receive from time to time from the Commander in chief of this Garri&s;on of <HI>Albany,</HI> in my ab&s;ence.</P>
<P>I hear, that when you go a hunting, before you come Home to your Ca&s;tles, you &s;lip a&s;ide into <HI>New-England,</HI> &agrave;nd there get drunk, and &s;quander away all what you have got, then come home poor to your Families, and become a burthen to your Neighbours, let me hear no more of this.</P>
<P>I renew the Covenant Chain with you, and promi&s;e you all Protection from this Government, I hope you will behave your &s;elves &s;o as to de&s;erve it, and be good Souldiers, and keep firm to the Covenant Chain. And in the Name of their Maje&s;ties of <HI>Great Britain,</HI> I lay down the&s;e Pre&s;ents.</P>
</SP>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="session">
<PB N="36" REF="20">
<HEAD>A Conference had between his Excellency <HI>Benjamin Fltcher, &amp;c.</HI> and the <HI>Mahikanders</HI> or lower River Indians, and <HI>Showanno's</HI> or far Indians, at <HI>King&s;tone</HI> in the County of <HI>&V;l&s;ter,</HI> the 28th of <HI>Augu&s;t,</HI> 1694.</HEAD>
<LIST>
<HEAD>PRESENT</HEAD>
<ITEM>His Excellency <HI>Benjamin Fletcher, &amp;c.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Coll. <HI>Andrew Hamilton,</HI> Governour of <HI>Ea&s;t</HI> and <HI>We&s;t-Jar&s;ey.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><LIST>
<HEAD>Of their Maje&s;ties Council for the Province of <HI>New-York.</HI></HEAD>
<ITEM>Coll. <HI>Stephen Courtland,</HI> </ITEM>
<ITEM>Coll. <HI>Nicholas Bayard,</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Coll. <HI>William Smith,</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Chidley Brook,</HI> <ABBR>E&s;q</ABBR></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>William Nicoll,</HI> <ABBR>E&s;q</ABBR></ITEM>
</LIST></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Mahikanders</HI> and far Indians.</ITEM>
</LIST>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>The Sachim of the <HI>Mahikinders</HI> Speaker.</SPEAKER>
<P><HI>FATHER;</HI></P>
<P>YOU are Governour of this Province of <HI>New-York,</HI> &s;ome of your Chri&s;tian People, that undertook this tedious Journey with us, la&s;t Year, are killed by the way
<PB N="37" REF="20">
by o&ucirc;r Enemies, for which we are very &s;orry; &s;ome al&s;o of the <HI>Mahikanders</HI> and far <HI>Indians</HI> are likewi&s;e killed. I now wipe off your Tears for th&agrave;t Blood. Then gave two or three Beavers.</P>
<P><HI>Father,</HI> We have had great &s;orrow for the lo&s;s of the&s;e Men which were killed, which is now wiped off. We have had great difficulty to bring the <HI>Showannoes</HI> and far Indians to &s;ee your Excellency, and de&s;ire &s;helter under your Wings, which will wipe off all the &s;orrow from us. We de&s;ire your Protection. Then gave a few more Beaver.</P>
<P><HI>Father,</HI> We expected a great Hunting, but have got little more than Blows from an Enemy that pur&s;ued us, and with a &s;mall &s;hare of what we have got, we are come to renew the Covenant Chain of Peace with you, and de&s;ire we may be as one Heart, one Blood and one Soul with the <HI>Engli&s;h,</HI> the <HI>Mohaques, River Indians,</HI> and all the Indians of this Government. Then gave a few more Beaver.</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>His Excellency,</SPEAKER>
<P><HI>Children,</HI> I am &s;orrowful for the lo&s;s of the <HI>Chri&s;tians</HI> and <HI>Indians</HI> of either Nation; you are as wellcome to me as Children to a Father. I &s;hall alwayes protect you, while you behave your &s;elv&eacute;s well, and take you and the far Indians into the Covenant Chain, and be as tender of you as a Father of his Children.</P>
<P><PB N="38" REF="21"><HI>Children,</HI> If you had come to me earlier, before I came from <HI>New-York</HI> or <HI>Albany,</HI> I had been better able to &s;ignifie my Affection to you, than now, I am upon my Return from my Journey, having di&s;po&s;ed of the Pre&s;ents I had provided for the pre&s;ent time. I give you this bundle of White Wampum as a Token that I receive you into the Covenant Chain, for the Province of <HI>New-York,</HI> and all their Maje&s;ties Governments in <HI>America.</HI> And you mu&s;t look upon all the&s;e as your Friends and Brethren.</P>
<P><HI>Children,</HI> I do not que&s;tion but you remember, that when you were la&s;t year at <HI>Albany,</HI> Major <HI>Schuyler</HI> was kind to you, and let you have things needful to fit you out for this Journey; I therefore expect, that now you will take care to re-pay him.</P>
<P><HI>Children,</HI> If hereafter you are &s;et upon, or interrupt|ed in your Hunting, by any Enemy, &s;o &s;oon as you can give me notice of it, I &s;hall be ready to come and a&s;&s;i&s;t you with Men and Arms, to repell &agrave;ny Force that &s;hall endeavour your hurt.</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>The Sachim,</SPEAKER>
<P><HI>Father,</HI> Being this time &s;o harra&s;&s;ed with an Enemy, in our Journey, we were interrupted from Hunting, we are not now able to pay Major <HI>Schuyler,</HI> but we
<PB N="39" REF="21">
expect three hundred far Indians to follow, and come up quickly after us, and when they come, we intend to rep&agrave;y him hone&s;tly, for what he &s;upplyed us.</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>His Excellency,</SPEAKER>
<P>It is well, <HI>I</HI> will order &s;ome Pre&s;ents for you at <HI>Albany. I</HI> bid you Farewell.</P>
</SP>
</DIV2>
<TRAILER>FINIS.</TRAILER>
</DIV1>
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