[1101] There is a contemporary MS. record of this conference in the Prince Collection, Boston Public Library. (Catal., p. 158.)
[1102] For the movement instituted by Spotswood, and his inspection of the country beyond the Blue Ridge, see chapter iv., and the authorities there cited.
[1103] See chapter vii.
[1104] See chapter ii.
[1105] This Indian confederacy of New York called themselves Hodenosaunee (variously spelled); the French styled them Iroquois; the Dutch, Maquas; the English, the Five Nations; the Delawares, the Menwe, which last the Pennsylvanians converted into Mingoes, later applied in turn to the Senecas in Ohio. Dr. Shea, in his notes to Lossing’s ed. of Washington’s diaries, says: “The Mengwe, Minquas, or Mingoes were properly the Andastes or Gandastogues, the Indians of Conestoga, on the Susquehanna, known by the former name to the Algonquins and their allies, the Dutch and Swedes; the Marylanders knew them as the Susquehannas. Upon their reduction by the Five Nations, in 1672, the Andastes were to a great extent mingled with their conquerors, and a party removing to the Ohio, commonly called Mingoes, was thus made up of Iroquois and Mingoes. Many treat Mingo as synonymous with Mohawk or Iroquois, but erroneously.”
[1106] The inscription on Moll’s Map of the north parts of America claimed by France (1720) makes the Iroquois and “Charakeys” the bulwark and security of all the English plantations. This map has a view of the fort of “Sasquesahanock.” A map of the region of the Cherokees, from an Indian draught, by T. Kitchen, is in the London Mag., Feb., 1760.
[1107] Chapter vii.
[1108] This fort had been built in 1739, and called Fort St. Frederick. G. W. Schuyler (Colonial N. Y., ii. pp. 113, 114) uses the account of the adjutant of the French force, probably found in Canada at the conquest. The fort stood on the west side of the Hudson, south of Schuylerville, while Fort Clinton, built in 1746, was on the east side. (Ibid., ii. pp. 126, 254.) A plan of this later fort (1757) is noted in the King’s Maps (Brit. Museum), ii. 300. See no. 17 of Set of Plans, etc., London, 1763.
[1109] American Mag. (Boston), Nov., 1746.
[1110] Chapter ii. p. 147.