THE OHIO VALLEY-GREAT LAKES ETHNOHISTORY
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Major McKee to
Col. Henry Bouquet
(For Lower Shawneese Town,
Nov. 8, 1762)
McKee, Alexander in: Stevens,
et all., The Papers of Col.
Henry Bouquet, Series
21648, part II, 1942,
p. 158.
p. 158.
After haveing made the Indians of this Town acquainted with the Bussiness I cam upon; they have held a Council among themselves in which their Chiefs have agreed to sett off from hence in a few days with some Prisoners they have collected and do expect to be at Fort Pitt the 24th instant they have informed me that they will not be able to take up all the Prisoners this fall as a great Numbers of their People is yet sick; but purpose carrying up these who remain early in the Spring.
The 2d instant arrived here fifteen Men from the Twigtwee Country; and give me the following Intelligence.
There haveing been a private Council held last Spring by the Mingoes and the Chiefs of the Delawares it was then agreed between them to Strike the English now liveing in their Country, and in order to get all the other Nations to join them in this undertaking, they had Secretly Sent a large Belt with a bloody Hatchet over the Lakes which had now pass'd through the Several Nations Residing that way, and was lastly delivered to their Nation by some of the principal Men of the Shawanese. But that no Nations had take hold of it but the Mingoes, Delawares, and Shawanese. As for their Nation they are determined on the contrary as the occasion of their coming here at this time was to return the Belt and Hatchet they had received on that Head. This account corresponds with my instructions and thought proper to acquaint you with it
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