The Ordeal of the Longhouse: The Peoples of the Iroquois League in the Era… (1992)

An interesting history of the Iroquois from first contact (Hudson, 1609) down to Johnson (1740).
Richter adds a useful context, the role of French Canada. For most of the histories centered here in the Valley "Canada" is decidedly offstage - raiding parties come down from Canada and vanish again, Jesuits appear in the Valley and are martyred; I've never before seen such a balanced explanation that shows how the Iroquois were caught between the contending colonial empires right from Day One.

Various tidbits gleaned: First mention I've seen in a book of 'Lawrence'. Several of the survivors of the Massacre grew up to be interpreters. Several of these interpreters were Dutch-speakers who had no English. The role of 'Corlaer' then fell to the first Peter Schuyler. The Mohawks were down to as a few as 130 warriors by the 1690s. ( )