The Continental Congress seeks to keep the…

July 1775 CE

The Continental Congress seeks to keep the Six Nations out of the war.

In July 1775, Samuel Kirkland, a missionary who is influential with the Oneidas, brings to them a statement from Congress that "we desire you to remain at home, and not join either side, but to keep the hatchet buried deep."

While the Oneidas and Tuscaroras remain formally neutral, many individual Oneidas express sympathy with the rebels.

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Utica Oneida New York United States View →

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Benedict Arnold View → Ethan Allen View → George Washington View → Guy Carleton, 1st Baron Dorchester View → Guy Johnson View → Philip Schuyler View → Thomas Gage View →

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Iroquois (Haudenosaunee, also known as the League of Peace and Power, Five Nations, or Six Nations) View → Oneida people (Amerind tribe) View → Tuscarora (Amerind tribe) View → New York, Province of (English Colony) View → Britain, Kingdom of Great View → British people View →

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American Revolutionary War, or American War of Independence View → Quebec, Invasion of (1775) View →

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Conflict View → Government View → Custom and Law View →

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