The Cornplanter Memorial.
AN
HISTORICAL SKETCH
OF
AND OF THE
SIX NATIONS OF INDIANS.
By JAMES ROSS SNOWDEN,
AND THE REPORT OF
Samuel P. Johnson,
ON THE ERECTION OF THE MONUMENT AT JENNESADAGA, TO THE MEMORY OF CORNPLANTER.
HARRISBURG, PA:
SINGERLY & MYERS, STATE PRINTERS.
1867.
NOTE.
Senate of Pennsylvania,
Harrisburg, March 15, 1867.
The report of Hon. Samuel P. Johnson, on the completion of themonument authorized by the last Legislature, to be erected to the memoryof Cornplanter, a Chief of the Six Nations, having been presented tothe Senate, by Senator Brown, of Mercer, the following resolution wasadopted:
Resolved, That one thousand copies of said report, together with the historicalsketch, with accompanying documents, prepared by Hon. JamesRoss Snowden, be printed, and that the thanks of the Legislature be presentedto these gentlemen for the able and satisfactory manner in whichthey have discharged the duties assigned them.
PREFATORY.
A joint resolution of the Legislature of Pennsylvania waspassed on the 7th day of March, 1867, inviting Hon. JamesRoss Snowden to deliver, in the Hall of the House of Representatives,his historical address on Cornplanter, and theSix Nations of Indians.
Pursuant to this resolution, on the 14th of March, the membersof both Houses, and a number of citizens, being convened,Hon. John P. Glass, Speaker of the House of Representatives,was called to the chair