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An Abridgment of the Indian Affairs
Wraxall, Peter in: Harvard
Historical
Studies, vol. XXI, pp. 33-37.
pp. 33, 34, 35, 37.
. . . their false & artful Instigations, But they [Iroquois] are fully & firmly detirmined, to hold fast on the Covenant Chain made with the English, & that if the Great King of England will defend (page 34) them against the Dowagenhaws the Twich Twees & other Nations over whom the French have an Influence & who have murdered several of their People since the Peace, They will have no further Correspondance with the French.- . . .
Albany 29 August 1700-
The Earl of Bellmont had a Private Conference with Two of the principal Sachems of each of the 5 Nations wherein he told them.
You must needs be sensible that the Dowagenhaws, Twichtwees, Ottowawas & Diondedees and the other Remote Indians are vastly more numerous than you 5 Nations, and that by their continual Warring upon you they will in a few years totally destroy you; I should therefore think it prudent & good Policy in you to try all possible Means to fix a Trade & Correspondance with all those Nations, by wch means you would retain them to yourselves, and with my Assistance I am in hopes in a short time they might be brought to be united with us in the Covenant Chain, and then you might be brought to be united with us in the Covenant Chain, and then you might at all times go a hunting into their Country without any sort of hazard wch I understand is much the best for Bever hunting.
I wish you would try to bring some of them to speak with me, perhaps I might prevail with them to come & live amongst you (page 35) and I should think myself obliged to reward you for such a piece of Service. . . .
(page 37) . . . They pray that there may be a good regulation of the Trade & Goods sold Cheap that the Remote Indians may see what Pennyworths there is here wch will draw them hither.-
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