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An Abridgment of the Indian Affairs
Wraxall, Peter in: Harvard Historical
Studies, vol. XXI, pp. 87, 90.
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. . . 20 May 1711 |
Came to Albany 6 Farr Indians from the Country about Tuchsakrondie, and say they are come upon the Faith of the Belt of Wampum wch was given them 2 years ago, that they are mindful of their engagments & shall never forget them. They were Answered, that the Govr should be acquainted with this Visit who would be well pleased to hear of it as the 5 Nations, & that he did his Endeavour that the 5 Nations should have no difference with the Far Nations & hoped they would contribute to bring all about them into the Covenant Chain. . . .
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. . . (P. 86.) Albany 13 June 1711 |
News arrives that Col Nicholson was arrived at Boston from Great Britain & had desired Govr Hunter & Col Schuyler to meet him at New London. [Upon wch a Post was dispatched to the 5 Nations with the News & to desire] wch news was communicated to the Sachems who remained in Town & they were desired to influence their Young Men [might] to stay at home & not go out a fighting against the Far Nations. The 15th Directions arrived from Govr Hunter that Two Sachems of each Nation might remain awhile in Town & be subsisted at the public Expense.
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19 July 1711 |
Some of the Mohawks are dispatched with a Belt of Wampum to the Susquahannah, the New Jersey & the Minneskink Indians to desire them to come here & join Her Majestys Forces in an Expedition against Canada.
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