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VGW(PU.776.001
5 Jan 1776:13 (49 Supplement)
Extract of a letter from general Schuyler, dated Albany,
December 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 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 that 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. This famous belt they have delivered up, and
we have now a full proof that the ministerial servants have
attempted to engage the savages against us.
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