THE OHIO VALLEY-GREAT LAKES ETHNOHISTORY
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Amherst to Col.
Henry Bouquet
(New York, Aug. 7, 1763)
Amherst, Sir Jeffery in: [B. M., Add.
MSS. 21634, f. 343, L. S.] and in
Stevens et all. The Papers of
Col. Henry Bouquet,
Series 21634, 1940,
pp. 231-232.
p. 232.
I Have a Letter from Mr. Croghan, wherein he gives it as his Opinion, that as soon as you Arrive at Fort Pitt, the Delawares & Other Indians on this Side the Lakes, will Remove with their Familys over the Lakes: My Answer is, that I Wish there was not an Indian Settlement within a Thousand Miles of our Country; for they are only fit to Live with the Inhabitants of the Woods, being more nearly Allied to the Brute than the Human Creation.
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