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MS-W.776.001
12 Jan 1776:23 (255)
Extract of a letter from General Schuyler Albany, December
14, 1775
"The Indians delivered us a speech on the 12th in which they
related the substance of all the conferences Col Johnson had
with them the last summer concluding with that at Montreal,
where he delivered to each of the Canadian tribes a war belt
and the hatchet who accepted it, after which they were
invited to feast on a Bostonian and drink his blood. An ox
being roasted for the purpose, and a pipe of wine given to
drink, the war song was sung. One of the chiefs of the six
nations, that attended at the conference, accepted a very
large black war belt with a hatchet depictured in it; but
would neither eat nor drink, nor sing the war song."
. . . [3 more lines] Published by the order of the Congress
Charles Thompson, Secretary.
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