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Akouehen, And after having communicated by the mouth of their Orator and Chief Soenres, theobject of their Embassy by ten talks expressed by as many presents, and having handed to us theletters from the officers of New Netherland , have unanimously requested, acknowledging the force ofhis Majesty’s arms and their weakness and the condition of the forts advanced towards them, andmoreover aware that the three upper Iroquois Nations have always experienced great benefit fromthe protection which they formerly received from the said Lord the King, that his Majesty would bepleased to extend to them the same favour by granting them the same protection, and receiving themamong the number of his true subjects, demanding that the Treaties formerly made as well by thesaid Nations as by theirs, have the same force and validity for that of the Mohawks , who have re-quired of us to solicit this with great importunity, as they should have themselves done by means oftheir Ambassadors had they not been apprehensive of bad treatment at our hands, ratifying on theirpart all the said treaties in all their points and articles, which have been read to them in the Iroquois tongue by Joseph Marie Chaumont, priest, member of the Society of Jesus ; adding, moreover, to allthe said articles what the protest effecting in good faith what they offered by their said presents,especially to restore all the Frenchmen, Algonquins and Hurons whom they hold prisoners amongthem of what condition and quality they may be, and as long as any are detained there, even on thepart of the Mohawks , to send families from among them to serve, like those of other nations as themost strict hostages for their persons and dispositions to the orders of those who shall in thisCountry have authority from the said Lord the King whom theyacknowledge from this time as theirSovereign; demanding reciprocally among all other things the restoration to them in good faith, ofall those of their Nation who are prisoners at Quebec, Montreal and Three Rivers, that French fam-ilies and some Black gowns, that is Jesuits be sent them, to preach the gospel to them and to makeknown to them the God of the French whom they promise to love and adore; also that tradeand commerce be open to them with New France, by the Lake du Saint Sacrement , (L. George) withthe assurance on their part that they will provide in their country, a sure retreat as well to the saidfamilies as to the trading merchants, not only by preparing cabins to lodge them in, but also by as-sisting to erect forts to shelter them from their common enemies the Andastaeronnons and others.And that the present Treaty , made on their part in ratification of the preceding, may be stable andknown unto all, they have signed it with the separate and distinctive marks of their Tribes, afterwhich what they solicited from the said Lord the King was granted to them in his name by MessireAlexandre de Prouville , Knight, Lord de Tracy member of the King’s Councils, &c. (as above) inthe presence and assisted by M. Daniel de Remy Siegneur de Courcelles, King’s Councillor, &c., &c.,and of M. Jean Talon also Councillor, &c. who have signed with the said Lord de Tracy ; and asWitnesses, Francois le Mercier, Priest, Member and Superior of the Society of Jesus at Quebec andJoseph Marie Chaumont likewise Priest and Member of the said Society, Interpreters of the Iroquois and Huron languages. Done at Quebec the 12 July, 1666.