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DELAWARE COUNTY 141 tions — inhabiting the greater part of New York^ and a portion of Pennsylvania and Ohio. Their names were Mohawks, Onondagas, Senecas, Oneidas, Cayugas, and Tnscaroras, the sixth, and a small tribe that emigrated from the south, and was admitted into the confederacy, the Onondagas giving them land, and they enjoyed equal privileges with the other tribes. These tribes were also in alliance with others of Canada, Ohio, and elsewhere. There was a small number of Indians, from different places, settled on or about the Susque- hanna or Delaware rivers, on lands allotted them by the Six Nations, and living under their immediate direction. The names of some of these were Nanticokes, Conoys, Tutecoes, Saponeys, Dela wares, &c., &c. FIRST WHITE PROPRIETORS OF THE SOIL. Patents were granted in 1770 for the tract of country, beginning one mile west of the river Susquehanna, and thence to the west Mohock') branch of the Delaware, which includes the present town of Franklin, to the following named indivi- duals, viz : Henry White, John De Berniere, Robert and John Leake (or Lake,) Jas. Clark, Chas. Babington, and August Provost. Several of those grants were of from twenty to forty thousand acres each, and were afterwards surveyed, sub-di- vided and sold to different proprietors, or divided among the different heirs of the original proprietors, so that when sold to actual settlers, very little of the land was conveyed in the name of the grantees. The line between Franklin and Daven- port is the north line of the Henry White tract, and it is upon the same that the village of Delhi is situated. The Leake (or Lake) tract occupies the central part of the town, the junction of the two branches of the Ouleout being nearly equally dis-