Senecan.adj.

c1616 in Documents Colonial Hist. N.-Y. (1856) I. facing p. 11 Sennecas.]

1664 J. Winthrop Let. in Coll. Mass. Hist. Soc. (1863) 4th Ser. VI. 531 3000 of the Seneckes, a people in league with the Mohawkes beyond them, are gathered together.

1684 T. Dongan in Coll. Mass. Hist. Soc. (1871) 4th Ser. IX. 187 I haue perswaded all the considerable Indians, the Maquas, Sineques, Onondages..to give up their lands.

1709 S. Sewall Diary 12 Aug. (1973) II. 624 300 Eastern Indians..were gon to the 5 Nations to pray leave to dwell with them; and..others refusing them, they were gon to the Senecas.

1823 J. F. Cooper Pioneers I. vii. 143 They [sc. the Iroquois] consisted of the tribes..of the Mohawks, the Oneidas, the Onondagas, Cayugas and Senecas; who ranked, in the confederation, in the order with which they are named.

1874 B. F. Taylor World on Wheels i. 31 The painted Senecas and the smoky Onondagas went gliding about like vanishing shadows.

1895 Westm. Gaz. 13 Apr. 6/2 ‘Which..are the Six Nations?’ ‘The Mohawks, the Oneidas, the Onondegas, the Cayugas, the Senecas, and the Tuscaroras.’

1684 New-Hampsh. Hist. Soc. Coll. (1827) II. 199 The sd Mohauck, Senacar, or other Indians, [shall] be paid out of such monies as shall be raised in the sd Province.

1724 H. Jones Present State Virginia i. i. 5 The Senecaa Indians in their War Dress may appear as terrible as any of the Sons of Anak.

1775 J. Adair Hist. Amer. Indians 393 A party of the Senekah Indians came to war against the Katahba.

1900 Congress. Rec. (U.S.) 26 Jan. 1232/2 Among the Seneca Indians a singularly beautiful belief prevailed.

1910 R. Kipling Rewards & Fairies 187 Senecas aren't Hurons, they're Iroquois, of course, and Toby told him so.

1933 L. Bloomfield Lang. iv. 72 The languages of the Iroquois type..Seneca.

1969 Observer 25 May (Colour Suppl.) 61/1 The Iroquois leader Sagoyewatha, known as Red Jacket, was one of the Seneca tribe who fought alongside the British during the American War of Independence.

1976 T. A. Sebeok Native Lang. Americas I. 537 Wright at one time devised a unique set of letters to be used in printing Seneca, but they were never adopted.

1814 J. Bigelow Florula Bostoniensis 245 Seneca grass... An erect, early grass, with a small panicle of short flowers.

1845 A. Wood Class-bk. Bot. ii. 440 Seneca grass.

1795 J. Scott U.S. Gazetteer at Allegany In this county is Oil creek: It flows from a spring much celebrated for a bitumen resembling Barbadoes tar, and is known by the name of Seneca Oil.

1826 Hildreth in Amer. Jrnl. Sci. 10 5 The other [well] discharges..vast quantities of petroleum, or, as it is vulgarly called ‘Seneka oil’.

1833 Hildreth in Amer. Jrnl. Sci. 24 64 This oil..acquired its name of Seneca oil,..from having been first found in the vicinity of Seneca Lake, N. York.

1865 G. W. Gesner A. Gesner's Pract. Treat. Coal (ed. 2) ii. 16 Under the name of ‘Seneca Oil’ which it derived from an Indian tribe, petroleum was formerly collected in Chautauque County, N.Y., and in Crawford County, Pennsylvania, and sold for medicinal purposes.

1910 R. Kipling Rewards & Fairies 161 He took orders for that famous Seneca Oil which he had the secret of from Red Jacket's Indians.

1959 Chambers's Encycl. X. 619/1 In North America crude oil was undoubtedly used by the Indians, and Seneca oil skimmed from the surface of water near Lake Seneca..utilized for rheumatism, coughs, burns, sprains etc.