 | William Edward Hartpole Lecky - 1898 - 556 pages
...them an elaborate account of the motives which had united them against England. They added, however: ' This is a family quarrel between us and Old England. You Indians are not eoncerned in It. We do not wish you to take up the hatchetagainst the King's troops. We desire you... | |
 | Lloyd Dean Smith - 1900 - 182 pages
...American Archives, 11.1116. 2. Id., II.1879. Indians are not concerned in it. We don't wish you t •> take up the hatchet against the King's troops. We desire you to remain at home and not join either side, but keep the hatchet buried deep. In the name and behalf of all our people, we ask and... | |
 | Bayard Tuckerman - 1903 - 302 pages
...Francis, Oliver Wolcott, and Volckert P. Douw. They held a council in the summer, taking the ground: "This is a family quarrel between us and Old England. You Indians are not concerned in it. We do not wish you to take up the hatchet against the King's troops. We desire you to remain at home,... | |
 | 1906 - 1328 pages
...CUYLER. 1775. you, and that you will now open a good ear and listen to what we shall further say to you. This is a family quarrel between us and Old England. You Indians are not concerned in it. We do not want you to take up the hatchet against the king's troops. We desire that you remain at home... | |
 | 1907 - 740 pages
...Indians from the British cause. In an address to the Six Nations Congress clearly defined its policy. "This is a family quarrel between us and old England. You Indians are not concerned. We do not wish you -to take up the hatchet against the King's troops."10 To support this policy, commissioners... | |
 | Oscar Jewell Harvey - 1909 - 682 pages
...that fire must be fought with fire. As early as the year 1775 Congress said to the Six Nationsf: ' This is a family quarrel between us and Old England. You Indians are not concerned in it. ' * * * Three years afterwards, when it was thought best to employ some Indians, General Schuyler wrote... | |
 | Ellen Chase - 1910 - 456 pages
...privileges, the very same for which our forefathers left their native land and came to this country. . . . This is a family quarrel between us and Old England....troops. We desire you to remain at home and not join either side; but keep the hatchet buried deep. Meanwhile much had been written to England. April 26th,... | |
 | Grace Greylock Niles - 1912 - 638 pages
.... our plantations, our houses and goods, whenever they please, without asking our permission. . . . This is a family quarrel between us and Old England! You Indians are not concerned in it. We do not want you to take up the hatchet against the king's troops. We desire that you remain at home... | |
 | William T. Hagan - 1976 - 68 pages
...commissioners asked only for Iroquois neutrality: "This is a family quarrel between us and Old England. . . .We desire you to remain at home, and not join on either side." Little Abraham, a Mohawk chief who was a principal Indian spokesman at Albany, informed the Americans... | |
 | Joey Lee Dillard - 1985 - 322 pages
..."A Speech to the Six Confederate Nations" with terms borrowed from Indian English (Ward 1952: 143): This is a family quarrel between us and Old England. You Indians are not concerned in it. We don't want you to take up the hatchet against the King's troops. We desire you to remain at home and not... | |
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This is a family quarrel between us and Old England. You Indians are not concerned in it. We do not wish you to take up the hatchet against the King's troops. We desire you to remain at home, and not join on either side, but keep the hatchet buried deep. 
