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George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 3, 15th edition., Chapter XXIII (search)
un der the protection of the English. Immediately their hunting-grounds were interpreted to extend to Lake Nipissing; and, on old English maps, the vast region is included within the dominions of England, by virtue of an act of cession from the Iroquois. But as a treaty, of which no record existed, could nardly be cited by English lawyers as a surrender of Chap XXIII} lands, it was the object of Governor Burnet to obtain a confirmation of this grant. Accordingly, in the treaty 1726 Sept 14. concluded at Albany, in September, 1726, the cession of the Iroquois country west of Lake Erie, and north of Erie and Ontario, was confirmed; and, in addition, a strip of sixty miles in width, extending from Oswego to Cuyahoga River at Cleveland, was submitted and granted, by sachems of the three western tribes, to their sovereign lord, King George, to be protected and defended by his said majesty, for the use of the said three nations. The chiefs could give no new validity to the alleged