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 SECT. II.] ALGONKIN-LENAPE AND IROQUOIS NATIONS. 55 The author of the Preface to the Treaty of Lancaster of 1744 further informs us, that the residue of the Conestogoes (or Susquehannocks), who were carried away by the Five Nations, were adopted by the Oneidas, and, when they had forgotten their language, were sent back to Conestogo, where they were then living and speaking Oneida. We find accord- ingly, in the list of Indians who attended the treaty of Lancas- ter in 1742, four of them designated as Conestogo Indians that speak the Oneida language, and with genuine Iroquois names. Four others are designated as Canoyias or Nanticokes of Con- estogo, where a part had in fact at first removed, and remained some time before they proceeded to the western branch of the Susquehanna. This destruction of the Susquehannocks must have taken place subsequent to the year 1664, since it was effected jointly by Maryland and the Five Nations, and probably before the arrival of William Penn in Pennsylvania (1680). But the records of Maryland are wanted to elucidate their history. It appears, however, that a remnant was left besides those carried away by the Oneidas. A portion probably fled toward the River Delaware, where they are mentioned by some of the early writers, and may subsequently have returned to their abodes. William Penn at an early period, anxious to strength- en his claimjagainst the pretensions of Lord Baltimore, obtained a cession of land on the Susquehanna from the Indians, whoever they may have been, who resided there. And this was confirmed in the year 1701, by a treaty made with the Susquehanna and Potomac Indians, but in presence and under the sanction of an Onondago Chief. At that -treaty Connoodaghtoh is styled King of the Susquehanna, Minqiiaes, or Conestogo Indians ; and those inhabiting the head of the Potomac are called Ganawese. Mr. Heckewelder, speaking of the Conoys, says, that they are the people we call Canais, Conoys, Canaways, Kanhawas, Canwese ;* and, in another place, f that the Canai settled at a distance, on the shores of the Susquehanna and of the Potomac. Colden mentions, under the year 1677, Canagesse Indians, J and in 1684, the Cahnaw T aas,<§> meaning certainly the same people, as Indians friends of Virginia, against whom the Five X Colden, Hist. Five Nations, Part I. Chap. iii. p. 38. § Ibid. p. 57.
 * Historical Account, p. 26. t Ibid- p. 74.