MR. JOHN CRANE,
New York City.
MR. STEPHEN J. GEOGHEGAN,
New York City.
MR. JOSEPH FORSYTH SWORDS,
New York City.
FOUR MEMBERS OF THE EXECUTIVE COUNCIL.
SOME PRE-REVOLUTIONARY IRISHMEN.
BY HON. JOHN C. LINEHAN, CONCORD, N. H.
Two hundred and fifty years ago, the Five Nations, better known later as the Six Nations, was the most powerful confederacy of Indians in North America. The governor of the province of New York, in a communication to the committee of trade dated February 22, 1687, said, “The Five Nations are the most warlike people in America. They go as far as the South sea, the Northwest passage, and Florida to war. They are so considerable that all the Indians in these parts of America are tributary to them.” To gain the friendship of these people, was the constant aim of the French in Canada, and the English in New York and New England.