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PP-P.776.003
1 Jan 1776:24 (5/219)
Extract of a Letter from General Schuyler, dated Albany, Dec
14.
The Indians delivered us a speech on the 12th, in which they
related the substance of all the conferences Col. Johnson
had with them 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 depicted on it; but
would neither eat, nor drink, nor sing the War Song. This
famous belt they had now delivered up, and we have now a
full proof that the Ministerial servants have attempted to
engage the savages against us.
Published by order of Congress
Charles Thomson, Secretary.
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