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Reverend de Lamberville to Reverend de Bruyas

(November 4, 1686)

de Lamberville, Jacques to de Bruyas, Jacques in: Documents Relative to the
Colonial History of the State of New York, (Lon. Doc.: V), v. III, pp. 488-490.

pp. 488, 489.

(page 488)

. . .; all the Onnondagas are on a war expedition in the direction of the cherermona; they are divided into two parties; one of 50 (page 489) which will not be long absent; the other of two hundred with 50 of other tribes. The Senecas wanted me to join them, and said they, themselves, wished to fight against the Tolere tionnontatez(see fn. 1) Ennikaragi(see fn. 2) and the French; for they always imagine that others are plotting against them.

2d. The army of 200 Senecas returns this month of September to the country of the 0mianicks,(see fn. 3) 500 of whom, they say, they brought away (tiré) or took prisoners. Two of theirs were killed in the foray, and 27 when the touloucs(see fn. 4) and Illinois caught them. No truce is to be and Illinois caught them. No truce is to be expected with the Nations in that quarter. The Senecas are to go thither either this expected with the Nations in that quarter. The Senecas are to go thither either this winter or spring with all their forces to recover the Myamicks. . . .
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¹See note, ante p. 443.- Ed.

²"In the beginning of May One thousand Seven hundred and Twenty three a Nation of Indians came to Albany, singing and dancing, with their Calumet before them as they always do when they come to any place where they have not been before. * * * * Towards the end of the same Month Eighty men besides Women and Children came to Albany in the same manner; those had one of our five Nations with them for an Interpreter by whom they Informed the Commissioners that they were of a great Nation called Neghkereages consisting of Six Castles and Tribes, and that they lived near a place called by the French Misclimakinack between the Upper lake and the Lake of Hurons." New-York Council Minutes, XIV., 395, 396; Colden's Five Nations, 8vo., II., 21. In the map prefixed to the latter work, they are called, also, Outaouaes, and occupy in that, and in Mitchell's Map of North America, 1755, the north-west part of the present state of Michigan.- Ed.

³0uimiamies or Miamis.-Ed.

⁴Sic. Probably intended for Outouacs.-Ed.

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