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- GLC#
- GLC03107.02120-View header record
- Type
- Documents
- Date
- 1715/08/29
- Author/Creator
- Sachem of the 5 Nations, fl. 1711-1717
- Title
- Propositions to Governor Hunter with an answer
- Place Written
- Albany, New York
- Pagination
- 2p. : docket : Height: 32.7 cm, Width: 20.8 cm
- Primary time period
- Colonization and Settlement, 1585-1763
- Sub-Era
- Native Americans
The Sachems explain that they have received word from the Far Nations that they desire to make peace with Governor Hunter and the 5 Nations, and also that they wish to travel and trade with freedom. Governor Hunter replies that the accepts the propositions of the Far Nations, and states that friends of the 5 Nations will be looked upon as friends of the English.
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