In 1722 the Tuscaroras, having been formally incorporated into the league, were sharing in councils with the English at Albany. Others of the tribe had settled with the Iroquois of Conestoga in what is now Lancaster County, Pa.; and still others pitched their lodges with Shawanese and Mohawk at Oquaga, now Windsor Broome County, .N Y. In 1736, an enumeration of the Five Nations, made by an officer in French-Canadian service probably either the elder Joncaire or La Chauvignerie-reported 250 men in the Tuscarora village "near the Onondagas." With the Oneidas and Cayugas,.the Tuscaroras were called younger brothers," one of the three younger branches of the Iroquois Confederacy. Their subordinate position was sown in 1726 when there was great turmoil over the building of Fort Niagara When Burnet asked the Six Nations why they had allowed it, he was told, it was the Onondagas who had given consent, while "the Cayuga: and Tuscaroras sat still and heard the Onondagas speak."

The Tuscaroras who had not yet emigrated continued to be involved in troubles to the southward. In 1726 they with some Mohawks Senecas, and Canada Indians, were charged with having raided and killed Indians of other tribes in South Carolina. This again aroused the administrators of New York who never ceased to fear French influence. In 1737 we find Lt. Gov. George Clarke, in council at New York June 30, urging the Six Nations to keep the Shawanese "among yourselves, as you have the Tuskierores to prevent their going to the French" in this he failed, for the Shawanese were, for the most part, under French control, down to the conquest of Canada.

For a good many years, we find the Tuscaroras scattered in many bands living with friendly tribes in several states. A report of 1741 calls them the Tachekaroreina. Six years later the French officer La Chauvignerina boasted at Montreal that the Onondagas Senecas Cayugas Oneidas ''Tescarorins'' were ''all well disposed towards the French.'' Again he said, give pledge of their ''perfect neutrality'' In 1748, Daniel de Joncaire, at Quebec, assured the Governor, La Chauvignerie, before whom he appeared with 80 Indians of the Six Nations that they were ''empowered to speak for the Taskorins," who were friendly to th French.. Such assurances signified little. By this time, such Tuscaroras as were resident in New York were thoroughly in obedience to the stronger tribes of the League. In 1753 Colonel (afterward Sir) William Johnson advised the Oneidas: ''Have your castles as near together as you conveniently can with the Tuscaroras, who belong to you as children'' This relationship, he added, "makes it necessary for me to fix a new string to the cradle which was hung up by your forefathers when they received the Tuscaroras".

In 1755 Tuscaroras and Oneidas served with the English forces at Lake George (Vaudreuit to M. de Machault Sept. 26 1756) and the next year we find Sir William Johnson writing to the Lords of Trade that the Tuscaroras were asking for a garrisoned fort near their town; he saw in this a proof of loyalty.

In Sir William's journal of his negotiations with the Indians, in the summer of 1756, are interesting records, showing the status of the Tuscaroras at that time. That they 'were well trusted may be gathered from the fact that they were employed as spies in Canada. Some 0f them were at a conference in Montreal, where of Vandreuil wrote that the Tuscaroras had ''accepted the hatchet from the English.' Some soldiers or the 44th Regiment, at Schenec-tady, had killed three Tuscaroras; had cut off the head of one of them, called Jerry, and set it on a stake in the camp and had otherwise angered them. Johnson was a good deal disturbed over it, for besides the resentment, the quarrel had aroused several of the Tuscarora chiefs had been so well received at Montreal that he feared they would all go over to the French. At a council at Onondaga and at a camp at Oneida the Tuscaroras showed him a French wampum belt that was virtually an invitation but Sir William, as usual, was equal to the occasion. He spoke to them pleasantly, he gave them presents, and he promised them a fort.

End of part three.