THE OHIO VALLEY-GREAT LAKES ETHNOHISTORY
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The Letters and Papers of
Cadwallader Colden
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Colden,
Cadwallader in: The History of the Five |
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p. 360.
. . ."The Govt of New York endeavour'd to make Peace between ye Five Nations & the Indians wch live to the westward that those Indians might freely come to Albany to trade & the Jesuits on the other hand kept up the Animosities between them to prevent the Far Indians goeing to Albany Their only Passage being through the Countrys of ye Five Nations These Jesuits once perswaded the Five Nations that the People of New England were preparing to fall upon Albany & to cut it off & put them in a terrible allarm makeing them believe that the People of New York & New England were Enemies to each other & with design to Favour an attempt wch the Owenagungas design'd in the Spring agt New England. . .
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