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An Abridgment
of the Indian Affairs
(Feb. 12, 1726 - April 21, 1726)
Wraxall, Peter in: Harvard Historical
Studies, vol. XXI, pp. 161-163.
. . .12 Febry 1725/6. The Commissrs being informed that the Six Nations expected an Answer to their Above Message about Selling Rum at Onondaga & if they dont receive One are detirmined to put their Resolutions in force, and the Commissrs finding it impossible to prevent Rum being carried up there in order to push a Trade with the far Indians, they dispatch Laur. Claasse the Interpreter to Onondaga to acquaint the 6 Nations that the Trade with the fra Indians cannot be carried on without Rum, (page 162) but that none should be sold to [the] any of the Six Nations & that the Govr expects they will not molest the Traders who are going up & that when he meets them at Albany he will endeavour to settle this Affair to their Satisfaction.
The Interpreter is also instructed that if he hears confirmed that some French are settled in the Sennecas Country he is to proceed thither in order to enquire for what Ends & Designs they are suffered to live there.
16 March. Laurence Claasse returns & reports to the Commissrs that (p. 145) The Sachems of the Mohowks told him that they could give no Liberty that Rum should be sold to the Farr Indians in their Country but promised they would neither hinder or molest any of the farr Indians or Traders in their going up or coming down.-. . .
. . . (p. 146) The 21. April 1726. I find Major Abraham Schuyler was by Govr Burnets Orders Dispatched amongst the 6 Nations as a Resident amongst them to watch the Motions of the French, to support our Trade with the Far Indians & to Prevent the Traders from abusing & imposing on them &c. . . .
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