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Excerpt from Life of Tecumseh and of His Brother the Prophet: With a Historical Sketch of the Shawanoe Indians
The origmal seats of the Shawanoes have been placed in different sections of the country. This has doubtless been owing to their very erratic disposition. Of their history, prior to the year 1680, but little is known. The earliest mention of them by any writer whose work has fallen under our observation, was in the beginning of the seventeenth century. Mr. Jetfer son, in his Notes on Virginia, says that when captain John Smith first arrived in America, a fierce war was 1aging against the allied Mohicans, residing on Long Island, and the Shawanoes on the Susquehanna, and to the westward of that river, by the Iroquois. Cap tain Smith first landed on this continent in April, 1607. In the following year, 1608, he penetrated down the Susquehanna to the mouth of it, where he met six or seven of;.their canoes, filled with warriors, about to attack their enemy in the rear. De La'et, in 1632, in his enumeration, of the different tribes, on either side of the Delaware river, mentions the, shawanoes. Charlevoix speaks of them under the name of Cha; ouanons, as neighbors and allies in 1672, of the Ah dastes, an Iroquois tribe, living south of the Senecas. \vhether any of the Shawanoes were present at the treaty* made in 1682, under the celebrated Kensington elm, between William Penn and the Indians, does not positively appear from any authorities before us; that such, however, was the fact, may be fairly inferred, from the circumstance that at a conference between the Indians and governor Keith, in 1722, the Shawa noes exhibited a copy of this treaty' written on parch ment.
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