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Bouquet to Forbes
(Reas Town Camp, Aug. 20, 1758)
Bouquet, Henry in: B. M., Add. MSS.
21640, f. 147, and in Stevens, et all.
The Papers of Henry Bouquet,
vol. II, 1951, pp. 391-399.
pp. 397.
You render the most important service to our
colonies by the treaty11 which you have so wisely appointed. I hope that you will be
able to prevail on the plenipotentiaries to carry to it plans suitable to the
critical circumstances in which we find ourselves; and that, for once in their
lives, they will forget their jealousies and their petty provincial interests,
for the general good of their fatherland. The inactivity of the Indians will be
the first advantage we shall receive from it, and if you should accomplish
nothing more, I believe that on this occasion you do them a service more
important than a victory.
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11 Fourth Easton Council, planned for September, but finally held from October 8-26.
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