The Six Nations

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Excerpt from The Six Nations: An Address Delivered Before the Chautauqua Society of History and Natural Science at Its Semi-Annual Meeting Held in Jamestown, January 29, 1885It is less than ninety years Since the entire portion of western New York, covering over six million acres of land in the present counties of Chautauqua, Cattaraugus, Allegany, Steuben, Erie, Wyoming, Living ston, Ontario, Yates, Niagara, Genesee and Monroe, and the western portions of Wayne, Schuyler and Chemung, were in the undisputed pos session and control of the Six Nations of New York.Massachusetts Claimed title to these lands by grant of King James I of England to the Plymouth company, made in 1628, extending westward to the Pacific ocean.New York Claimed title to the same territory by grant |from Charles II to the Duke of York and Albany, in 1663, the western boundary of which grant was not specifically defined.These con¿icting Claims between New York and Massachusetts were settled by commissioners on the part of each state, at Hartford, Decem ber 16, 1786, by Massachusetts ceding to New York the government, sovereignty and jurisdiction of such lands, and by New York ceding in terms its right of preemption of the soil of the native Indians and all other estate (except of sovereignty and jurisdiction) to Massachusetts, its grantees and assigns forever.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.