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History of the
Five Indian Nations
(Summer, 1715)
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Colden, Cadwallader in "The History of the Five Indian Nations Depending on the Province of New-York Draft, for years 1707-1720" in: The Letters and Papers of Cadwallader Colden, vol. 9, 1937 and in Collections of the New York Historical Society for the year, 1935, pp. 359-434. |
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In the Summer 1715 the french Marched a considerable body of men against those Indians they call Renards & called the Naked Indians by the People of Albany who had lately been at Albany & enter'd into an alliance with ye English. They sent John Coeur into the Sennekas country who bought there 400 bushels of Indian corn for (page 419) ye use of their Army that was then at ye great Falls of Oiagara & endeavour'd to engage the Sennekas to join ye 5 Nations to fall upon a party of ye far Indians that were passing through their Country to trade at Albany. . . .
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