BRIEF NOTICE OF THE IROQUOIS INDIANS, THE EARLY GERMAN TRIBES, AND BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES OF THE PALATINE FAMILIES, THE PATENTEES OF BURNETSFIELD IN THE YEAR 1725. ALSO BIOGRAPHICAL NOTICES OF THE MOST PROMINENT WITH IMPORTANT STATISTICAL INFORMATION. BY NATHANIEL S. BENTON. ALBANY: J. MUNSELL, 78 STATE STREET. 1856. Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year one thousand eight hundred and fifty-six, in the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the United States for the Northern District of TO THE PEOPLE OF HERKIMER COUNTY I dedicate this humble and unpretending volume. If the manuscript sheets, which have been prepared with some labor, and a scrupulous regard to the best authenticated facts, shall assume the form of a readable book, it will be through their generous appreciation of the writer's efforts. And, if my labors to condense and illustrate the annals of what has hitherto been and now is an interesting portion of one of the largest and most populous states of the American Union, in the destinies of which the citizens of Herkimer county have hitherto so largely participated, shall merit and receive the approval of those so well qualified to form just conceptions of their value and importance, I shall have no hope or ambition left unsatisfied. THE AUTHOR. No. 1. Petition of Palatines, Indian deed and order of Council for Bur- No. 3. Sir William Johnson's petition to purchase the Royal Grant,..... 479 No. 4. Names of Members of Herkimer County Medical Society,........ 481 No. 5. List of Sheriffs, Surrogates, Clerks and County Judges, and Attor- |