 | Francis Jennings - History - 1984 - 468 pages
...stated at their treaty with Lord Howard, of Effingham, in 1684: “We have put our Lands and our Selves under the Protection of the great Duke of York, the Brother of your great Sachem.. . . [We now] put the Susquehana River above the Wasuhta [the falls] and all the rest of our... | |
 | Sandra M. Gustafson - Language Arts & Disciplines - 2000 - 320 pages
...after Odianne's performance, a spokesman for Onondaga and Cayuga headmen concurred with his actions. "Wee have putt all our land and our selfs under the...great Duke of York, the brother of your great Sachim," the orator declared. "We have given the Susquehanne River which we wonn with the sword to this Government... | |
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Wee have putt all our land and our selfs under the Protection of the great Duke of York, the brother of your great Sachim; We have given the Susquehanne River which we wonn with the sword to this Government and desire that it may be a branch of that great... 
