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- GLC#
- GLC03107.01935-View header record
- Type
- Documents
- Date
- 1684/08/02
- Author/Creator
- Onondaga and Cayuga Sachems
- Title
- "Proposition or oration of the Onnondages & Cayouges Sachims made in the . . .
- Place Written
- Albany, New York
- Pagination
- 2p. : docket : Height: 32.7 cm, Width: 20.6 cm
- Primary time period
- Colonization and Settlement, 1585-1763
- Sub-Era
- Native Americans
. . . Town hall of Albany before the Right hon[or]able the Lord Effingham Govenor of Virginia and Coll. Thomas Dongan Gov[ernor] of New York" In their proposition, the Indians state that since the English now exceed the Indians in number, the English should protect them from French. They go on to express their sense of unity with the English, and their desire to give their land to whichever Sachim they please.
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