When Agnese, a Kahnawà:ke Mohawk woman, traveled through the Adirondacks in the summer of 1742, she connected two colonial centers of trade across imperial borders and through traditional Haudenosaunee (Iroquois) territories. Agnese carried a pack of beaver pelts down from Montreal and returned with red fabric and fine laces.
This trade was illegal for Agnese’s trade partners — one a French widow, the other Robert Sanders (1705 – 1765), a future mayor of Albany, NY.
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