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Ensign Holmes to
Col. Henry Bouquet
(Miamis, March 17, 1762)
Holmes, Robert in: B. M., Add. MSS.,
21648, f. 68 , A. L. S., and in Stevens,
et all., The Papers of Col. Henry
Bouquet, Series 21648,
part I, pp. 52-53.
p. 52.
. . . As for the Indins they Bring In so Littel Meat that I Canot Get it as fast as the Men Requires it and what thy Bring I have to pay an Extrequent price for what I Shall Do I Canot tell. they are Contunuly tormenting me for presents. I have Good them allwis put of with trifels as yet teling them that I had Root to the Genral in Reguards of them but had not Recevd aney ansuer yet I Roott to mr Crohan Last fall But I have not recevd aney ansuer yet in Reguards to the Indins.
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