The old New York frontier : its wars with Indians and Tories, its missionary schools, pioneers, and land titles, 1614-1800 . f the Sus-quehanna is) from agreeing to any line that mightbe deemed reasonable. They had publicly de-clared to several gentlemen that they had takeninfinite pains with the Indians to obstruct the lineand would continue so to do. He added that theNew Englanders had had missionaries for sometime amongst the Oneidas and Oghwagas and Iwas not ignorant that their old pretension to theSusquehanna lands was their real, though religionwas their assumed, object. Johnsons corresp
The old New York frontier : its wars with Indians and Tories, its missionary schools, pioneers, and land titles, 1614-1800 . f the Sus-quehanna is) from agreeing to any line that mightbe deemed reasonable. They had publicly de-clared to several gentlemen that they had takeninfinite pains with the Indians to obstruct the lineand would continue so to do. He added that theNew Englanders had had missionaries for sometime amongst the Oneidas and Oghwagas and Iwas not ignorant that their old pretension to theSusquehanna lands was their real, though religionwas their assumed, object. Johnsons correspondence with the British Minis-ter, Lord Hillsborough, discloses some of the pecul-iar circumstances in which Johnson negotiated thistreaty. The King, George III., was indisposed topay so large a sum as $50,000. He thought thedemands of the savages very unreasonable, andwas unwilling that the mother country should have any part or expence of a measure calculated forthe local interests of particular colonies. Johnson,however, had been obliged to proceed on his ownresponsibility before the letter, containing the Kings102. THE FORT STANWIX DEED views, arrived. He wrote to the Minister that thesum paid was the most moderate that could havebeen offered for so valuable and extensive a afterward proposed a method by which the Crowncould be reimbursed for its outlay. It was that allgrants of land be subject to a tax of $50 for eachthousand acres. A million acres thus would yieldthe sum of 150,000. The original purpose of the Crown had been tocontinue the line northward from Owego. Afterthe treaty, Johnson explained that he had found itextremely difficult to get the line so far to thewestward from its vicinity to their own towns, andindeed the whole of the line as it approached themcost me more pains and trouble than can be con-ceived. In this statement we see reasons for thepeculiar course of the line as it ran from Owego to theDelaware, and thence to the Unadilla River, ins
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