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| Field name | Value |
|---|---|
| Collection Reference Number | GLC03107.02091 |
| From Archive Folder | The Livingston Family Papers [034] 1707-1709 |
| Title | Examination of an Onondaga Indian |
| Date | 17 July 1709 |
| Document Type | Government document |
| Content Description | The Onondaga Indian relates news he heard from a Seneca that a company of Indians were discussing plans to attack the Five Nations. He also states that two nations of Indians from Maryland have all been killed by a pestilential disease. Page 2 contains an account of a meeting of the Commissioners of Indian Affairs, in which it is resolved to send a group of Christians and Indians to the Senecas to inform them of the lies the French have told them. Pages 2 and 3 contain an account, dated 19 July 1709, of an Onondaga and Oneida that travelled to Canada to order the Indians there to return home and support the English expedition against Canada. Marked as a true copy and signed by Robert Livingston. |
| Subjects | Mohawk Indian Religion Health and Medical Disease Death American Indian History Military History Government and Civics Canada France Spying Global History and Civics |
| People | Livingston, Robert (1654-1728) |
| Place written | Albany, New York |
| Theme | Native Americans; Health & Medicine; Government & Politics; Religion; Foreign Affairs |
| Sub-collection | The Livingston Family Papers |
| Copyright | The Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History |
| Module | Settlement, Commerce, Revolution and Reform: 1493-1859 |