While we know our northern friends may not feel it, in the South, Spring is
here. So we thought we'd share a few of our gardening sites appropriate
for this time of the year. Along with gardening, there's grilling, and getting
ready to diet so that you can fit back into that bathing suit this summer!
General Putnam, who
was then at Philadelphia, told me there was to be a council at Fort
Stanwix, and the Indians requested me to attend on behalf of the Six
Nations, which I
Corn Plant, Ki-on-Twog-Ky
did,
and there met with these commissioners who had been appointed to
hold the council. They told me that they would inform me of the
cause of the revolution, which I requested them to do minutely.
They then said that it originated on account of the heavy taxes that
had been imposed upon them by the British Government, which had been
for fifty years increasing upon them; that the
Americans had grown weary
thereof and refused to pay, which affronted the King. There had
likewise a difficulty taken place about some tea which they wished
me not to use, as it bad been one of the causes that many people had
lost their lives, and the British Government now being affronted,
the war commenced and the cannons began to roar in our country.
"General Putnam then told me at the Council at Fort Stanwix that
by the late war the Americans bad gained two objects:
they had established themselves an independent nation and had
obtained some land to live upon, the division line of which from
Great Britain runs through the Lakes. I then spoke and said I wanted
some land for the Indians to live on, and General Putnam said it
should be granted, and I should have land in the State of New York
for the Indians.
He then encouraged me to use my endeavors to pacify the
Indians generally, and as he considered it an arduous task, wished
to know what pay I would require. I replied that I would use my
endeavors to do as he requested with the Indians, and for pay
therefore I would take land upon which I now live, which was presented to
me by Gov. Mifflin. I told General Putnam that I wished the Indians to
have the privilege of hunting in the woods and making fires, which he
likewise assented to.
