Documentary History of the State of New York, Vol. I
It doth not appear upon Record that the Connoge Indians are to this day satisfied.)
In the year 1750 Connageriwa a Sachim of the Six Nations living on the Ohio came at the head of a Deputation from thence to Mr. Croghan's house, and told Mr. Peters he was sent down from Ohio
made on the East side of the Susquehannah the year before, from the Onondaga Council and said they were entitled to part of the
to enquire about the purchase they had heard the Governour had
goods paid for those Lands as well as the Onondaga Councill, but they had received no part.
That they were come down to desire the Governour to purchase no more Lands without giving them notice and desired the Governour might send that Belt of Wampum to the Onondaga Council and let them know what the Ohio Indians had said on this head. Gave a large Belt. The Indians of the Six Nations who were settled on the Ohio were so dissatisfied with the Albany purchase made by the Proprietary Agents and saw such bad consequences arising from it that they left the Ohio and returned to their own Country. In a Speech of the Six Nations at a publick meeting with Sir William Johnson on the 3d July 1755
They said Brother, You desire us to unite and live together and draw all our allies near us, but we shall have no land left either for ourselves or them, for your people when they buy a small piece of land of us, by stealing they make it large We desire such things may not be done and that your people