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An Abridgment
of the Indian Affairs
(June-July, 1723)
Wraxall, Peter in: Harvard Historical
Studies, vol. XXI, pp. 147-148.
. . . 16 June. Some farr Indians who used to Trade with the French [come] arrive at Albany with Furrs to Trade.
I find in the Act of Assembly made against the Canada Trade the commissrs of Indian Affairs were empowered to administer a[n] [promise] Oath to such persons as they suspected to be concerned in said Trade, wch they accordingly did to several among wch Three Persons are recorded to have refused taking the Oath.
12 July 1723. Sundry Indians from several remote Nations come to Albany to Trade & say they are Commissioned by Nations of Indians who live still beyond them to know whether the Road is free & Open for them to come to Albany. They say the French throw all the Stumbling Blocks they can in their way.-
These Indians Complain & the Commissrs write the same to the Govr that the People at Schenectady (a Town of Dutch abt 16 Miles from Albany thro which all Indians from the Westward must pass & where the Water Carriage ends) Steal their Furrs from them & that several Packs had been stole from the Indians wch they could never retrieve. Some of these Poor People came above 600 Miles- to be plundered by Dutchmen in One Town & Cheated by them in Another. And yet these Wretches most of them learn by heart a Catechism of near 300 Pages & will not miss Church two or three times on Sundays upon any Acct- but to get money. . .
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