Mr. Colden, the present Lieutenant Governor of New York, in his History of the Five Nations, observes, that about the year 1664, "the Five Nations being amply supplied by the English with firearms and ammunition, gave a full swing to their warlike genius. They carried their arms _as far South as Carolina_, to the Northward of New England, and as _far West as the river Mississippi_, over a vast country,--which extended 1200 miles in length from North to South, and 600 miles in breadth,--where they entirely destroyed whole nations, of whom there are no accounts remaining among the English." In 1701,--the Five Nations put all their hunting lands under the protection of the English, as appears by the records, and by the recital and confirmation thereof, in their deed to the King of the 4th September 1726;--and Governor Pownal, who many years ago diligently searched into the rights of the natives, and in particular into those of the Northern confederacy, says, in his book intituled, the _Administration of the Colonies_, "The right of the Five Nation confederacy to the hunting _lands of Ohio_, Ticûcksouchrondite and Scaniaderiada, by the conquest they made, in subduing the _Shaöanaes_, Delawares (as we call them) Twictwees and Oilinois, may be fairly proved, as they stood possessed thereof at the peace of Reswick 1697."--And confirmatory hereof, Mr. Lewis Evans, a gentleman of great American knowledge, in his map of the middle colonies, published in America in the year 1755, has laid down the country on the _South-easterly side_ of the river Ohio, _as the hunting lands of the Six Nations_; and in his Analysis to this map, he expressly says,--"The _Shawanesse_, who were formerly one of the most considerable nations of those parts of America, whose seat extended from _Kentucke_ South-westward to the Mississippi, have been subdued by the confederates (or Six Nations) _and the country since became their property_. No nation," Mr. Evans adds, "held out with greater resolution and bravery, and although they have been scattered in all parts for a while, they are again collected on _Ohio_, under the dominion of the confederates." At a congress held in the year 1744, by the provinces of Pennsylvania, Maryland, and Virginia with the Six Nations,--the Commissioners of Virginia, in a speech to the Sachems and Warriors of that confederacy, say, "tell us what nations of Indians you conquered any lands from in Virginia, how long it is since, and what possession you have had; and if it does appear, that there is any land on the _borders_ of Virginia that the Six Nations have a right to, we are willing to make you satisfaction."