THE OHIO VALLEY-GREAT LAKES ETHNOHISTORY
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Speech of the Indians to
Governor Clinton
(July 17, 1747)
In: Documents Relative to the
Colonial History
of the State of New York, (Lon.
Doc.:
XXVIII), v. VI, pp. 390-391.
Memorandum of the Cayugas, Ottrawanees head of the Onondages and Flat nose's speech to his Excellcy on the 17. day of July 1747 at Albany.
. . .
3ly That one of their Indians in his way down from the Quitways1 met with three other different Nations at Kichaga, where they lodged all together as they lay there, there came a Battow with nine Frenchmen and landed near them; after they had landed, a Nation called Younondadys, called a Council of all that were present, and told them they knew that the five Nations had taken up the Axe against the French from our Govr, but that they had not taken the Axe, but desired to use their own weapons, which was granted by the rest of the Nations then present. Then they immediately killed eight and took the Commander prisoner, whom they have resolved to return in the place of a great Trader from Philadelphia, which was killed two years ago by the French or his directions, and the scalps they resolved to send where his Excellcy our Govr had hung over the War kettle, but that the Indian appointed to bring them down, had lost his wife, which is the reason they are not yet come, but they are resolved to send them to where the War kettle hung over, in order to see if they would not give the Broth a good relish to the pleasing of his Excellcys palate. The Ottowauways and other Nations thanked them, and said they intended in a short time to make tryal, if they could not boil the same Broth.
. . .
5thly That three Nations of the Foreign Indians have agreed to destroy the Fort at Yaugree, for they say a sort of Witches about the said Fort always keep the Path foul and dirty, and for that reason they have resolved to make it clean.
N. B. The Three Nations are the Missesagues, Wawehattecooks and Ockneharuse,
who have eight big Castles- the biggest of all the Nations, these people are
1500 or 2000.
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1 Sic. Probably Quatoghees, or Hurons, settled at this time at Sandusky. See Journal, November, 1746 to October, 1747 in Paris Documents, post. Sub date, 20 July, 1747.
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