For interest after the wars in Canada, which resulted in the capture of Quebec from the French, there was a peace treaty drawn up in 1763 in Paris. At this not only were the new British Territories in Canada and on the Eastern Seaboard of America defined but the Indian Nations were protected by reserving the entire area West of the Appalachian Mountains. At that time the whole area where the Fox Cottage came to stand was in the lands of the Iroquois Nations a confederacy which from 1702 comprised 6 Nations.
This land was very fertile, attractive to settlers and the restrictions placed upon settlements in the Indian territories were one of the contributory causes to the ensuing war, because, strangely enough the British resisted any breach of this 1763 Proclomation. However, the support of the Iroquois Nations to the British cause, in the American War of Independence changed the situation dramatically. After the attritional wars of independence and the Indian wars the settlers moved in to take over these lands. It may be of interest that one of the leaders of the Iroquois Confedarcy was educated at Ofxford Unniversity. Many of the confederacy were re located by the British Government to Canada after Independence, to avoid reprisals.
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