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George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 3, 15th edition., Chapter 20: (search)
ed exclusively by the French. But the fixed hostility and the power of the Five Nations left no hope of success in gaining safe intercourse by the St. Lawrence. To preserve the avenue to the west by the Ottawa, Pijart and Charles Raymbault, in 1640, on their pilgrimage to the Huron country, attempted the conversion of the roving tribes that were masters of the highways; and, in the following 1641. May 8. year, they roamed as missionaries with the Algonquins Relation 1642 p. 152. of Lake Nipissing. Towards the close of summer, these wandering Ibid. p. 153. tribes prepared to celebrate their festival of the dead,—to gather up the bones of their deceased friends, and give them jointly an honorable sepulchre. To this ceremony all the confederate nations were invited; and, as they approach the shore, on a deep 1641. Sept. bay in Lake Iroquois, their canoes advance in regular array, and the representatives of nations leap on shore, uttering exclamations and cries of joy, which th
George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 3, 15th edition., Chapter XXIII (search)
a part of the domain of the Five Nations, and therefore subject to England. Again: at the opening of the war of the Spanish succession, the chiefs of the Mohawks and Oneidas had 1701 appeared in Albany; and the English commissioners, who could produce no treaty, had seen cause to make a minute in their books of entry, that the Mohawks and the Oneidas had placed their hunting-grounds 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