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quins of the Ifland," a small tribe on the Ottawa, not a general fachem of all the tribes. His course might eafily be followed through the French ac

counts.

(24) This is a very inaccurate fummary; the Iroquois attacked and carried one after another the towns of the Wyandots and Tionontates (Hurons and Petuns) in Upper Canada: and a petty remnant of the former fled to Quebec, and of the latter to Wifconfin. A furprise of a party of the Wyandot refugees on Ifle Orleans in 1657 is the incident referred to by Colden, who overlooks entirely the war in Upper Canada, which swept away the Wyandot, Tionontate, Attiwandaronk, Wenro and other minor tribes from their ancient feats.

(25) De la Potherie.

(26) De la Potherie, i. 152. The Nepiciriniens, or Nipiffings, never removed to any great distance. A remnant of the tribe ftill exifts at the Lake of the Two Mountains, and their language for a time prevailed at that mission.

(27) The Dinondadies fled first to islands in Lake Huron, then to the fouthern fhore of Lake Superior, next inland to Black River. Returning then to Mackinaw, they proceeded to Detroit, when a post was established there, and finally croffed to Sandusky, which they named Outfandouke, meaning "There is pure water there." Here they became known to us as Wyandots--the Hurons of Lorette being, however, the original Wyandots. The ifland of the Ottawas is Manitouline, but the name is older than Colden fuppofes.

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(28) De la Potherie, i. 303. Pieskaret's death occurred in 1647. (Relation de la Nouvelle France, 1647, p. 47.)

(29) There was but one Algonquin village near Quebec, that of Sillery, which eventually filled up with Abnakis, and was removed to St. Francis.

(30) This is the affertion of de la Potherie (ii. 296), but is devoid of all probability or authority.

(31) De la Potherie, ii. 54.

(32) Colden's ignorance as to Arendt Van Curler is ftrange enough. As to him fee O'Callaghan's New Netherland.

(33) De la Potherie, ii. 85. Agariata boasted of having murdered M. de Chazy, the nephew of the Marquis de Tracy. The French Governor was

de Courcelle.

(34) The Dutch had one breach with the Mohawks in 1625, when Van Krieekebeck, the Commandant at Albany, joined the Mohegans against them and was killed.

(35) De la Potherie, Hiftoire de l'Amérique Sept. ii, 87-111. Nicholas Perrot, Moeurs, Couftumes, &c.

(36) 1679.

(37) Lake Erie.

(38) This account of the lofs of the Griffin is from De la Potherie ii. 35-40.

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(39) They had been fupplied with them nearly fifty years before. Rel. N. F. 1643, p. 62.

(40) See New York Colonial Documents ÍII. 256, ix. 227.

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(41) They were Pifcattaways, the Susquehannas had just been conquered by the Iroquois. (See N.Y. Col. Doc. iii. 323, Hiftorical Magazine II. 294.)

(42) New York Colonial Doc. iii. 277. Campbell's Virginia.

(43) These are the Canageffe of p. 31, and the name is preserved under the form of Kanhawa.

(44) Dongan brought out English Jefuits to replace the French, in order to bind the Five Nations. to the English intereft. (N. Y. Doc. Hift. iii.) The French naturally endeavored to turn the war parties away from themselves.

(45) A treaty between the Five Nations and Maryland in Auguft, 1682, will be found in N. Y. Col. Doc. iii. 321-328.

(46) Affarigoa means Cutlass or Big Knife, and the Dutch word Hower having this fignification, the Dutch interpreter gave it as the meaning of Howard! (N. Y. Col. Doc. v. 670.)

(47) An account of the origin of the Laprarie and Caughnawaga miffions will be found in a History of the Catholic Miffions among the Indian Tribes of the United States, New York, 1855, p. 296.

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(48) Father Lamberville was the only French misionary at the time in New York, and that he was able to influence the five different tribes in oppofition to all the efforts of the authority of New York is not very probable.

(49) Milet was taken prifoner by the Oneidas at Fort Frontenac in 1690, after Denonville entrapped the Iroquois Sachems, and was long in great danger; but his knowledge of the language and long acquaintance with the tribe faved him. After he was adopted and regarded as a Sachem, his influence was much dreaded by the English, and a long correspondence ensued, his friends feeking to prolong his captivity and his enemies to release him. An account of his captivity is printed in the Cramoify feries. He there fays that he was adopted as “Otaffeté, which is the ancient name of one of the first founders of the Iroquois Republic,” p. 38. Morgan, p. 64, gives as the first Oneida Sachem, Hodafhateh, "a man bearing a burden.”

A Huron tribe of

(50) Colden is here in error. the town of Scanonaenrat, or St. Michael's, containing many Chriftians, joined the Senecas, and feveral miffionaries, Garnier, Fremin, Rafeix, Pierron, labored in the Seneca country.

(51) The Sieur de Salvave. See his Inftructions. in N. Y. Documentary Hiftory, i. 70.

(52) Charlevoix, Histoire de la Nouvelle France, i. 490, fays 700 militia, 130 regulars, 200 Indians, chiefly Iroquois of Sault St. Louis, and Hurons or Lorette. The official return of the troops taken at

Fort

Fort Frontenac, August 14, 1684, including regulars, militia and Indians, was 34 officers, 782 men. De Meules, the Intendant, fays 900 men and 300 Indians.

(53) Suppofed to be Salmon river, Ofwego county, N. Y. It is faid, on p. 79, to be "thirty miles from Onondaga." De la Barre, however, fays "four leagues," Charlevoix "four or five leagues from the mouth of their river." i. 493.

(54) Arnold Cornelifon Viele was a citizen of Albany and a well known Indian interpreter. For his fervices in the latter capacity he obtained a grant. of land from the Mohawks, September, 1683, a little above Schenectady. The tract was called Wachkeerhoha. (O'Callaghan.)

(55) Charles Le Moyne, the founder of one of the illuftrious houfes of Canada, to which Iberville, Bienville and the Barons Longueuil belonged.

(56) Father John de Lamberville. His Iroquois name of Taorhenfere, incorrectly given Twirhaerfira on p. 80, means "the man that looks up at the sky." The names given to Miffionaries were retained for fucceffors, and the late Mr. Marcoux, miffionary at Sault St. Louis, Canada, bore this fame name.

(57) Father James de Lamberville.

(58) Called Tegannehout by the French. He was a Seneca ambaffador arrested at Quebec by De la Barre. (N. Y. Col. Doc. ix. 239.) He was at the conference at La Famine, or Hungry Bay.

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