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Title: Onondaga's centennial. Gleanings of a century
Year: 1896 (1890s)
Authors: Bruce, Dwight H. (Dwight Hall), 1834-1908
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Publisher: (Boston) : The Boston History Company
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a was drowned.Dablons graphic style heightens the interest of the exciting stcry. Inthree weeks they made but forty French leagues, or about a hundredmiles. A little earlier some Seneca ambassadors came to Canada, and one ofthem was shot by the Mohawks, by mistake, while hunting near ThreeRivers; this nearly occasioned war between the two nations. At ThreeRivers a Mohawk chief spoke strongly against the Onondagas. He hadhardly finished, however, when there appeared Jean Baptiste Ochiona-gueras, Onnontagueronnon captain, who having embraced the Faithwithin two years, and from that time having had a heart entirelyFrench, procured by his influence the peace which we have with theupper Eroquois. A Huron who had escaped from Onondaga, also triedto hold back the colony. The Mohawks were enraged over the plan, 1 Living a great interest for their commerce, as the Onnontoeronnonswere always obliged to pass through their country. The colonists were at last ready. The Fathers were Claude Dablon,
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FRENCH COLONY IN ONONDAGA. 67 Francis Le Mercier, Rene Menard, and Jacques Fremin; Brothers Am-brose Broat and Joseph Boursier, with an escort of fifty Frenchmenunder Mons. Du Puys, Father Chaumonot being still at Onondaga.They left Quebec May 17, 1656, the fleet being composed of French,Onondagas, Senecas, and a few Hurons. Some Mohawks maltreatedthe French, Onondagas, and Hurons in the rear canoes, but fear of awar with the Onondagas at last brought them to a better mind. From Montreal an advance canoe was sent to Onondaga, and thetown was left on the 8th of June, the party embarking in twentycanoes. That day the Onondagas retaliated on a party of Mohawks,pillaging their arms and taking what was best of their equipage. Theleague was not yet old enough for perfect harmony. On the way upthe river they met some Andastes, from the distant Susquehanna. The 27th of June we passed the last rapid, which is found midway between Mon-treal and Onontaghe, that is to say at forty or fifty league

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