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La Salle's fort at, ib.; French garrison 150; French fort at, 154, 158; abandoned, 168; condition in 1688, of fort, 169; names ol the officers then at fort, ib.; height of the falls of, 283; the French erect another fort at, 290. Nicolls, Gov. to M. de Tracy, 53; served in the French army, ib.; his report on the state of the his charter to N. York, 389. prov., 59 erection of at,

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O. cation of the conduct of the, previous to the burnObservations of Wentworth Greenhalgh among the ing of the German Flatts, 336. Five Nations, 15. Officers, civil, in 1693, 197; of the militia in 1700, Onondagas, numerical strength of the, at different periods, 15, 21, 24, 44, 468; papers relating to the names of the, 229. Ogdensburgh, papers relating to an early French first French settlement among the, 27; Father Le settlement at, 275. (See, Presentation.) Moine's mission to the, 29; first adult baptism Oneagorah, Oneigra, Onyegra. (See Niagara.) among the, 31; the French invited to settle among Oneida, strength of the, in 1677, 15; in the year the, 33; discovery of the salt springs of the, 34; 1736, 21; in 1763, 24; speech of a chief of the, Jesuit missionaries proceed to the, 35; conspiracy 33; number of the, in 1661, 44; sue for peace from of the, against the French, ib.; surprise of the, on the French, 4V; treaty between the French and learning of the withdrawal of the, 40; the council the, 51; acknowledge themselves subjects of France, of the, assert their freedom, 76; negotiations be52; Father Milet, missionary among the, 74; numtween Father de Lamberville and the, 86, 88; the, ber of the, capable of bearing arms in 16S5, 123; pursuade the Senecas to accept their mediation, 87; M. de Vaudrueil leads an expedition against the, decline Gov.