M. de la Jonquiere adds that the Savages were instigated to -this attack by the English. The Iroquois who were on a complimentary visit at Montreal were surprized at it and assured M. de Longueuil that it could only be Colonel Amson [Johnson'?] who could have induced them.
He omitted
nothing to persuade those same Iroquois to undertake this expedition and to prevent them going to
compliment the Governor, having offered them Belts which they refused.
COL. JOHNSON TO GOV. CLINTON, 18 AUG. 1750. [Lond. Doc. XXIX.]
The next thing of consequence he (an Indian Sachem) told me was, that he had heard from several Indians that the Governor had given orders to the Priest who is now settled below Cadaraqui
means possible to induce the five Nations to settle there, for which end they have a large magazine of all kinds of clothing fitted for Indians as also Arms, Ammunition Provision &c which
to use all
they distribute very liberally.
THE SAME TO THE BOARD OF TRADE, 28 AUG. 1756. [ Lond.
Doc. XXXIII. ]
The Onnondagas and Oneidas are in the neighbourhood of Swegatchie a French settlement on the River St. Lawrence, whither numbers of those two Nations have of late years been debauched and gone to live.
Tho' our Indians do not now resort to those places as frequently and familiarly as l
Equal to $653.23.
EARLY SETTLEMENT AT OGDENSBURGH.
they formerly did, yet some among them do occasionally visit there, when the French and the Indians in their interest poison the minds of ours with stories not only to the disadvantage of our good intentions towards them, but endeavour to frighten