The Texture of Contact: European and Indian Settler Communities on the Fro

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The Texture of Contact European and Indian Settler Communities on the Frontiers of Iroquoia, 1667–1783 David L. Preston Portions of chapter 2 originally appearedas“GeorgeKlock,the Canajoharie Mohawks, and the Good Ship Sir William Johnson: Land,Legitimacy,andCommunity in the Eighteenth-Century MohawkValley,”NewYorkHistory 86, no. 4 (2005): 473–99. Portions of chapter 3 originally appeared as “Squatters, Indians , Proprietary Government, and Land in the Susquehanna Valley,” in Friends and Enemies in Penn’sWoods:Indians,Colonists,and theRacialConstructionofPennsylvania ,ed.WilliamPencakandDaniel K. Richter (University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2004), 180–200.© 2009 by the Board of Regents of the University of Nebraska All rights reserved Manufactured in the United States of America Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Preston, David L. (David Lee), 1972– The texture of contact : European and Indian settler communities on the frontiers of Iroquoia, 1667–1783 / David L. Preston. p. cm. — (The Iroquoians and their world) Includes bibliographical references and index. isbn 978-0-8032-1369-2 (cloth : alk. paper) 1. Iroquois Indians—Government relations. 2. Iroquois Indians—History—18th century . 3. Iroquois Indians—History —17thcentury. 4.Europe— Colonies—America. 5. United States—History—Colonialperiod , ca. 1600–1775. 6. Iroquois Indians—Canada—History— 18th century. 7. Iroquois Indians —Canada—History—17th century. 8. Frontier and pioneerlife —UnitedStates.9.Frontier and pioneer life—Canada. I. Title. e99.i7p75 2009 974.7004'9755—dc22 2009012833 Set in Quadraat. ...