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CATALOG NUMBER VC 3195
OBJECT NAME report of Native American movements (fragment, draft)
DATE June 3, 1782?
AUTHOR [Philip Van Corltandt I?] [Schuyler? - see top of page 2]
RECIPIENT
MEDIUM paper, ink
PEOPLE “tories”, “indians”, [Oneidas?], Captain T-??,
PLACES Schenectady, “Niagary” (Niagara), “stone ?arabias?”, [Oswego]
KEYWORDS Oneida, Mohawk, Native American, “indian”, prisoners, “tories”,
reports on movements of Native American groups, “Oswagotic”
(like Oswego), “indians of the back nation”, “Cacknawaga” [Caughnawaga?],
they then [illegible - consent?-ed?] should [^ what] [^ that] they should have their / things - and go with them, when they came to the party / they all set smoking and made a reg ring + set them / in the middle of them.
They then took them one in can? a / canoe and went off + met a number of Canoes / with tories, who were for taking them right [^ or] wring / they all went a shore and made a ring + set / them in the midle their was abt 24 tories + 30 In’ds / they did not stay their long, but told them they / must go with them, and took them to were the / river forked about a mile _ were they built a / house to stay all night, when they were there / the white people was a little distant with / the Chiefs _ + made a ring + sent for there men / and put them in the ring _ the head warrior of / the Indians got up + spoke _ and said that it is / the orders of the Commander to take them prisoners / and leave them their till they could go + do their / business _ that they was always [d-??’?] _ when the / came acrofs any [onidas?] before they could do their / business _ after that they might go. They told them / they would go aside + [??] _ they then argued / they would not go with them except they was able / to if they [tryed] to make them, they will strive / to kill some of them sooner than go. _ but [was ??] / not go with them as prisoners if they could help / it. _ they told them they did not come out to go but / to war _ but to hunt, they then left four to Guard / them _ + the others went off _ they kept them four day / + they parted + the four went back.
When the four left them they went a hunting / before they returned [illegible, page creased] discovered the trail / of [there?] horses _ this is five days ago.
When Non [^ they] came to the first [??] from here _ [^ they] discovered two / Indians _ of the [back] nation but could not talk with / them but understood by signs that there was 10 / more _ they discovered a [?-ck?] at a distance / near the [^ a] falls where they supposed they those 10 / was. This is all they discovered _ this is about / of 4 days ago _ the road [?] was about 2 foot they / told them they must mor tell any of the Amer / cans that [illegible, faded] [??] d, Capt’ Ta-[??, faded]
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[?? illegible, faded, ?? Schuyler?] Sunday June 3d 178[2?]
Examination of three [Onides?] who return’d here this day from / [hunting] _ they set out from shenectady about a month ago, and went as far as the Other side of the grand main river _ they were / five days going from fort [Hackaman?] till they came / to this river, where they made a Caoe + lay ?? two / days. _ they were four days after [^ they] made the Canoes till / they came to the falls, [^ one night] were they stoped + two of them / went of to set traps for beaver and the others stayed / at home, _ these two were gone one night _ there was / five Mohawk came there and had two prisoner / boys, _ which they said the took near [stone] [arabias?] / they asked them from were they came from they said / from Niagary, and were from that place 33 days ___ /
They asked them to go long a little way with them / one of then cautioned the other to take care of them / as he said they might have some [rough] design upon / them __ they took their guns + ammunition and went / a little way with them, + the Mohawks went of in / a canoe _ and left them. + they returned to their / hutt and slep till morning _ when one of them went / to the falls to fish. + discovered five Indiains in a Canoe / he immediately returned to his comrades + inform’d / them _ they [^ all] went to see them + went up a mountain / [^ were they] see these Indiains below at a fire _ a little after there / was four guns fired, they run again to look and saw / four Indians in a Canoe _ one of them hallowed to them / and they made their way over to the other shore _ / [^ they then] and told them they should come a shore, + they came / a shore _ and they were of four of the [back] [nation–??] / who came from ofs Ofswagotic , when they parted / the one that could understand a little, said to them / it was hard he could not understand them, their / head man was behind we who could understand / them, with a party of about thirty mohawks + / [^ Ind’s of the] Back nation together, _ they went then to their Cab-?? / with two beaver skins to spread them and [one?] / of them went out to get some bark to spread the / one when they he heard a noise in the back + / discovered a party of [Cacknawaga’s?] who made / up to the fire, an the part consisting of about / thirty, + came from [?Quifsasing?]
After a while they came two or three / of them to fetch them who said their head man wat / wanted to talk with them + that they should take / every thing with them, they told them they would not / they had their traps out and could not
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Kathryn AlexanderLanguage
English
