This is a message posted at the Tuscaroras.com discussion forum by Teresa Morris on February 26, 1998.

Captain John Mt. Pleasant was of the English Army and his Oneida wife had a son named John Mt. Pleasant II.

He was raised at the TUSCARORA VILLAGE.

The Seneca Tribe at Genesee sold some of their land to Robert Morris. The Niagara Tuscaroras were going to lose their homes. They complained they were being treated unfairly and not receiving what was due to them. Morris held for them 2 sq miles as the Senecas gave then another square mile next to this property.

1801 and 1802 Longboard and Sacarusa went to NC to see if they could obtain any money for lands that use to be occupied by their people. With the help of the NC legislature they were able to arrange for migration of additional Tuscarora and also L E A S E their C A R O L I N A lands. They received $13,722 in a land fund. General Dearborn, Secretary of War in 1804 was then able to purchase 4,249 acres from the Holland Land Company. This helped increase the reservation in Niagara County to 6,249 acres, 10 square miles.

With the NY Tuscarora living in peace and possession of lands they could call home another chapter begins. The forsaking of old Tuscarora traditions and subscribing to oral instructions for Christianity.