policy, the Necariages, a remnant of the once powerful Hurons, or Wyandots, had been induced to visit Albany, in 1723, and to

ask to be received as the seventh nation.

The commissioners of

Indian affairs accepted them as such, 2 but the confederates never

acknowledged them. When the Mississagies tendered a similar alliance, however, they were received by the confederates, and at a conference, held at Albany on the 23d of August, 1746, were The al publicly acknowledged by them as the seventh nation. liance did not long continue.

When the war of 1 755 broke out,

it

WS found that the Six Nations were at war with their new allies. A more permanent acquisition was that of the Ochtayhquana5 wicroonsf a Tuscarora clan, who appeared on the Susquehanna river, in the present county of Broome, ih 1 722, arM around whom

subsequently gathered several Mahican families who had previ " dis ously found homes with the Mohawks, but who had become " of that tribe ; satisfied with the ruling politics Skaniadaradigk*In 1740, George Clark, then acting governor, secured the assent of the " take Six Nations to the proposition to into the covenant chain all the nations of Indians lying to the westward and southward as far as the Mississippi," as the " most likely way to establish an uni versal peace among all the Indians and as

to

make it lasting."

Schoolcraft the Necariages as the seventh nation, but admits that they were never The fact appears to be that so received. no nation was ever received into the con Colonial History , v, 695.