Documentary History of the State of New York, Vol. I
Some Iroquois, to the number of eight or ten men have retired to tills quarter. Their device is without doubt, like that of the village from which issue the Deer, the Plover, &c, as hereafter,
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Lake Ontario, or south of Frontenac. There are no more Iroquois settled.
The Mississagues are dispersed along this lake, some at Kente, others at the River Toronto, and finally at the head of the Lake, to the number of one hundred and fifty in all,
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and at Matchedach,
The principal tribe is that of the Crane. North of Lake Ontario.
The Iroquois are in the interior and in five villages, about fifteen leagues from the Lake, on a pretty straight line, altho' one days journey distant from each other.
This nation,
though much diminished, is still powerful. South of Lake Frontenac.
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The Onondagoes number two hundred warriors. top of a mountain,
The device of the village is a Cabin on the
The Mohawks, towards New-England, not far from Orange (Albany) are eighty men, and have for device of the village a Battefeu [ a Steel ] and a flint, The Oneidas, their neighbours, number one hundred men or a hundred warriors,
This village has for device a Stone in a fork of a tree, or in a tree notched with
some blows of an axe. The Cayugas form a village of one hundred and twenty warriors. a very large Calumet,
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Their device generally is
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The Senecas form two villages in which are three hundred and fifty men. big Mountain,