Documentary History of the State of New York, Vol. II

"Braddock, Scarvyade, Coyseuntenego, and two, or three more " Ohio Indians, who had left their Country on the first approach of "the French, in the year 1753, did desire the Government of " Pennsylvania, to build a Fort at Shamokin, in order to Protect " their Interest with the Susquahannah Indians but the request of " those four, or five, dispossessed Indians, can never be fairly " Construed as an Authority of application from the Six Nations, " or any other body of Indians. Neither did those Indians at that " time desire War might be declared against the Ohio Indians. " However this request for a Fort, was not Complied with, at that " time.

In a Message Sir William Johnson received the 23^ May 1756, from the Onandaga Indians, they say as follows --

" Tell our Brother further, that since we took the Hatchet out " of the hands of the Delawares and Shawaneese, they have told "us there is an Army of the English, coming against them (they " mean the Provincial Troops of Pennsyl*. imder Colonel Clapham,) " and that they think it unreasonable, and unnatural for us to hold " them in our Arms, and Prevent their defending themselves, when " People are just on their Backs, to destroy them.

" We are mformed the English are building a Fort at Shamokin. " We can't comprehend the method of making Warr, which is " made use of, by our Bretheren the English ; When we goe to " War, our manner is, to destroy a Nation, theres an "end of it. " But the English Chiefly regard building Forts, which looks, as if " tlieir only Scheme was to take Possession of the Lands.