Strategic Alliances and Trail of Broken Treaties 1700-1799

1797

Seneca are deceived into selling territory

Cornplanter, a Seneca Chief. Image: F. Bartoli; New York Historical Society
Cornplanter, a Seneca Chief. Image: F. Bartoli; New York Historical Society

They are deceived into selling all their territories in western New York and northwest Pennsylvania.

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