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A26123 An account of the treaty between His Excellency Benjamin Fletcher Captain General and Governour in Chief of the Province of New-York, &c. and the Indians of the Five Nations viz. the Mohaques, Oneydes, Onnondages, Cajonges and Sennekes, at Albany, beginning the 15th of August 1694.; Treaties, etc. Iroquois Indians, 1694 Aug. 15 New York (State). 1694 (1694) Wing A411; ESTC W16312 16,145 42

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