+BRITISH QUEEN Deed in Trust from three of the Five Nations
of Indians to the King.
[From the Original Roll In the
Secretary of State's Office, Albany, N. Y.]
TO ALL PEOPLE to whom this present
Instrument of Writing shall Come WHEREAS the Sachims of the five Nations did
(on the 19th Day of July in the year of Our Lord one Thousand Seven hundred And
one in a Conference held at Albany Between John Nanfan Esqr late Lievt Governr
of the Province of New York) Give and Render up all their Land where the Beaver
Hunting is which they won With the Sword then Eighty Years ago to CORACHKOO our
Great King Praying that he might be their
Protector and Defender there. For which they desired that their Secretary might
then draw an Instrument for them to Sign & Seal That it might be Carried to
the King as by the minutes thereof now in Custody of the Secretary for Indian
Affairs at Albany may more fully and at Large appear.
WE Kanakarighton & Thanintsaronwee
Sinneke Sachims, Ottsoghkoree Dekanissoree & Aenjeweeratt Cayouge Sachims,
Kachjahadorodon & Sadegeenaghtie Onnondage Sachims of our own Accord free
and Voluntary will Do hereby Ratify Confirm Submit and Grant and by these
Presents do (for our Selves our heirs and Successors and in behalf of the whole
nations of Sinnekes Cayouges & onnondages) Ratify Confirme Submit and Grant
unto Our Most Sovereign Lord GEORGE by the grace of God King of great Brittain
France and Ireland Defender of the Faith &c his heirs and Successors for
Ever all the Said Land and Beaver hunting to be Protected & Defended by his
Said Majesty his heirs & Successors to and for the use of us our heirs
& successors and the said Three nations.
AND we Do allso of our own Accord free
and Voluntary will Give Render Submit and Grant and by these presents do for
our Selves our heirs & Successors Give Render Submit and Grant unto Our
Said Sovereign Lord King GEORGE his heirs and Successors for Ever all that Land
Lying and being Sixty miles distance taken Directly from the water into the
Country Beginning from a Creek Call'd Canahogue on the Lake Osweego, all along
the said lake and all along the narrow passage from the said Lake to the Falls
of Oniagara Called Cahaquaraghe and all along the River of Oniagara and all
along the Lake Cadarackquis to the Creek Called Sodoms belonging to the Senekes
and from Sodoms to the hill Called
Tegerhunkserode Belonging to the
Cayouges, and from Tegerhunckseroda to the Creek Called Cayhunghage Belonging
to the Onnondages all the Said Land being of the Breadth of Sixty English miles
as aforesaid all the way from the aforesaid Lakes or Rivers Directly into the
Country and thereby Including all the Castles of the aforesaid Three Nations
with all the Rivers Creeks and Lakes within the Said Limits to be protected
& Defended by his said Majesty his heirs and Successors for Ever To and for
Our USE our heirs & Successors and
the Said Three Nations IN TESTIMONY
whereof We have hereunto Sett our Marks and Affixed our Seales in the city of
Albany this fourteenth Day of September in The thirteenth year of his Majestys
Reign Annoqe Domini 1726
The Mark of KACHJAKADORODON
a Sachim of the onnondage [L.S.]
The Mark of SADEGEENAGHTIE
A Sachim of onnondage [L.S.]
The Mark of OTTSOGHEOREE
Sachim of the Cayouges [3] [L.S.]
The Mark of DEKANISOREE
Sachim of the Cayouges [L. S.]
The Mark of AENJEWEERATT
A Sachim of the Cayouges [L. S.]
The Mark of KANAKRIGHTON
a Sachim of the Sinnekes [L.S.]
The Mark of THANINTSARONWER
a Sachim of the Sennekes [L.S.]
Signd Seald and Deliverd in the
Presence of us.
PHILIP LIVINGSTON
PIETER VAN BRUGH
MYNDERT SCHUYLER
LOURENS CLAESEN
Endorsed —
RECORDED in the Secretarys Office of
the Province of New York this Ninth day of November One Thousand Seven hundred
and Twenty Six in a Book of patents No 13. In Testimony whereof I have hereunto
Set my hand the day and Year abovesaid
Is. BOBIN D. Secry
1. Of the Tribe of the Deer.
2. Of the tribe of the Wolf.
3. Of the tribe of the Bear.
4. Of the tribe of the Wolf.
5. Of the tribe of the Turtle.
6. Of the tribe of the Plover.
7. Of the tribe of the Beaver.
The above Deed included the country East from Cleveland, Ohio, to Salmon River,
in Oswego county, N. Y. — ED.
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