When my son Thomas was three or four years old, I was married to an Indian, whose name was Hiokatoo, commonly called Gardow, by whom I had four daughters and two sons. I named my children, principally, after my relatives, from whom I was parted, by calling my girls Jane, Nancy, Betsey and Polly, and the boys John and Jesse. Jane died about twenty-nine years ago, in the month of August, a little before the great Council at Big-Tree, aged about fifteen years. My other daughters are yet living, and have families. * * * * * CHAPTER VI. Peace amongst the Indians.--Celebrations.--Worship. Exercises.--Business of the Tribes.--Former Happiness of the Indians in time of peace extolled.--Their Morals; Fidelity; Honesty; Chastity; Temperance. Indians called to German Flats.--Treaty with Americans.--They are sent for by the British Commissioners, and go to Oswego.--Promises made by those Commissioners.--Greatness of the King of England. Reward that was paid them for joining the British. They make a Treaty.--Bounty offered for Scalps. Return richly dressed and equipped.--In 1776 they kill a man at Cautega to provoke the Americans. Prisoners taken at Cherry Valley, brought to Beard's Town; redeemed, &c.--Battle at Fort Stanwix.--Indians suffer a great loss.--Mourning at Beard's Town.--Mrs. Jemison's care of and services rendered to Butler and Brandt. After the conclusion of the French war, our tribe had nothing to trouble it till the commencement of the Revolution. For twelve or fifteen years the use of the implements of war was not known, nor the war-whoop heard, save on days of festivity, when the achievements of former times were commemorated in a kind of mimic warfare, in which the chiefs and warriors displayed their prowess, and illustrated their former adroitness, by laying the ambuscade, surprizing their enemies, and performing many accurate manoeuvres with the tomahawk and scalping knife; thereby preserving and handing to their children, the theory of Indian warfare. During that period they also pertinaciously observed the religious rites of their progenitors, by attending with the most scrupulous exactness and a great degree of enthusiasm to the sacrifices, at particular times, to appease the anger of the evil deity, or to excite the commisseration and friendship of the Great Good Spirit, whom they adored with reverence, as the author, governor, supporter and disposer of every good thing of which they participated. They also practised in various athletic games, such as running, wrestling, leaping, and playing ball, with a view that their bodies might be more supple, or rather that they might not become enervated, and that they might be enabled to make a proper selection of Chiefs for the councils of the nation and leaders for war.