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Capt. Croghan to
Col. Henry Bouquet
(Fort Bedford, June 17, 1763)
Croghan, George in: [B. M., Add.
MSS. 21649, f. 177, A. L. S.]
and in Stevens et all. The Papers
of Col. Henry Bouquet, Series
21649, part I, 1942,
pp. 160-161.
p. 160.
. . . the Dallaways in My opinion are y pople who has begun this Indan Warr, & if ye Ottoways and Cheepways has attackt Detroit I Blive it will be found that ye French was Aquainted with there Designs. I imagine ye Dallaways will Romuve over ye Lackes or over ye Misisipia. Phaps this May be a Stroke of policey in ye french to gett as Many Indian Nations as they Can to go to ye Cuntry over Misisipia wh they have to pople as Well to Make themselves Respectable with thire Indian Aleys as to Seceuer as Much of the Indian Trade as they Can.
the Dallaways you are Sencable have Nott behaved so Well as they Did before post went amungst them to his Majestys Trupes & Sence the last Treaty att Lancaster they May be Said to have behaved with Insolance this you are well aquainted with & I wish ye Quakers Maint find that thire Interfearing with Indian affairs May have Don More hurt to his Majestys Indian Intrest & given them a great Dislike to his Trupes than any Setlments that I or any other pople have Made there
I am of opinion if the Six Nations knew any thing of this Eruption they keept itt Secarett in order to Break of any Connections between us and ye Dallaways as I am Certian they have been for Some years past Very Jelouss of the Dallaways being Rased So high by ye Quakers of Phille however time will Evence to ye publick whether I have acted with Imprudence in My department or Nott as far as I was Limeted.
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