Notes On the Iroquois Or Contributions to American History Antiquities And
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355 " Such, madame, is the account of what passed at the taking' of Corlear (Schenectady). The French lost but twenty-one men, namely, four Indians and seventeen Frenchmen. Only one Indian and one Frenchman were killed at the capture of the town. The others were lost on the road. " Golden remarks, that the Mohawks sent a hundred warriors in pursuit, who fell upon the rear of the retreating army, and killed and took twenty-five persons. They also sent an embassy of condolence to Albany, assured ...the inhabitants of their friendship, and ability to defend the frontier, and inspired a renewed feeling of confi- dence, from the bold style and ennobling senti- ments of their address. It was, it is clear from this author, the renegade Caughnawagas, with Agniez at their head, that led the way in this sanguinary attack. ANTIQUE CURRENCY OF THE MANHATTANESE AND THEIR NEIGHBORS. There were two kinds of wampum in early use by the Indians, as a standard of value; the purple or black, and the white. The purple was made from the interior portions of the Venus mercenaria, or common conch.
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