Source O'Callaghan, E. B. (Ed.). (1855). Documents Relative to the Colonial History of the State of New York, vol. 5. Albany, NY: Weed, Parsons, & Co., 800–801.
Deed in Trust from three of the Five Nations of Indians to the King. 1726
[From the Original Roll In the Secretary of State's Office, Albany, N. Y.]
TO ALL PEOPLE to whom this present Instrument of Writing shall Come WHEREAS the Sachims of the five Nations did (on the 19th Day of July in the year of Our Lord one Thousand Seven hundred & one in a Conference held at Albany Between John Nanfan Esqr late Lievt Governr of the Province of New York) Give & Render up all their Land where the Beaver Hunting is which they won With the Sword then Eighty Years ago to CORACHKOO our Great King Praying that he might be their Protector & Defender there. For which they desired that their Secretary might then draw an Instrument for them to Sign & Seal That it might be Carried to the King as by the minutes thereof now in Custody of the Secretary for Indian Affairs at Albany may more fully & at Large appear. WE Kanakarighton & Thanintsaronwee Sinneke Sachims, Ottsoghkoree Dekanissoree & Aenjeweeratt Cayouge Sachims, Kachjahadorodon & Sadegeenaghtie Onnondage Sachims of our own Accord free & Voluntary will Do hereby Ratify Confirm Submit & Grant & by these Presents do (for our Selves our heirs & Successors & in behalf of the whole nations of Sinnekes Cayouges & onnondages) Ratify Confirme Submit & Grant unto Our Most Sovereign Lord GEORGE by the grace of God King of great Brittain France & Ireland Defender of the Faith &c his heirs & Successors for Ever all the Said Land & Beaver hunting to be Protected & Defended by his Said Majesty his heirs & Successors to & for the use of us our heirs & successors & the said Three nations. & we Do allso of our own Accord free & Voluntary will Give Render Submit & Grant & by these presents do for our Selves our heirs & Successors Give Render Submit & Grant unto Our Said Sovereign Lord King GEORGE his heirs & Successors for Ever all that Land Lying & being Sixty miles distance taken Directly from the water into the Country Beginning from a Creek Call'd Canahogue on the Lake Osweego, all along the said lake & all along the narrow passage from the said Lake to the Falls of Oniagara Called Cahaquaraghe & all along the River of Oniagara & all along the Lake Cadarackquis to the Creek Called Sodoms belonging to the Senekes & from Sodoms to the hill Called Tegerhunkserode Belonging to the Cayouges, & from Tegerhunckseroda to the Creek Called Cayhunghage Belonging to the Onnondages all the Said Land being of the Breadth of Sixty English miles as aforesaid all the way from the aforesaid Lakes or Rivers Directly into the Country & thereby Including all the Castles of the aforesaid Three Nations with all the Rivers Creeks & Lakes within the Said Limits to be protected & Defended by his said Majesty his heirs & Successors for Ever To & for Our USE our heirs & Successors & the Said Three Nations IN TESTIMONY whereof We have hereunto Sett our Marks & Affixed our Seales in the city of Albany this fourteenth Day of September in The thirteenth year of his Majestys Reign Annoqe Domini 1726
