Oswegatchie tribe

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The Oswegatchie was a native tribe located in northern New York. They were primarily emigrants from the Onondaga tribe of the Iroquois Confederacy.

In 1748, about 3000 members of the tribe lived near Fort de La Présentation at what is now Ogdensburg, New York. After all but 400 died of smallpox in 1763, Sir William Johnson re-settled the survivors farther south on the Mohawk River.

Following the American Revolution, the tribe returned north and settled at the St. Regis Reservation on the St. Lawrence River.