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Col. Bouquet to Sir
Jeffery Amherst
(Fort Pitt, Aug. 27, 1763)
Bouquet, Henry in: [B. M., Add. MSS.
21634, f. 366, C.] and in Stevens
et all. The Papers of Col.
Henry Bouquet, Series
21634, 1940,
pp. 250-251. p. 250.
I have the honor to Send you a Copy of his Letter to me, and other Papers, which I suppose have already been Sent you by the way of Niagara, in which Case I would beg the favor to have them returned to me.
This Express Says that after he lefft the Detroit he was informed by some Wyandots, that Major Rogers with 300 Men had been Attacked at the mouth of the river by the Poutewatamis, had beat them, & got into the Fort, and that he himself saw the Sloop Sailing up the River. That At Sandusky he found that the Detachment had burnt the Indian Village, near the Place where the Fort had Stood.
That when he was coming here with the first Letters The Delawares would not let him pass: But were so dejected at present by their Loss in the Engagement, that they had not attempted to Stop him, tho' they wanted to have the Letters.
That one Hundred Warriors of the Shawanese were on their Way to their Towns from the Detroit where they had spirited the revolted Indians to continue the War, & that the Delawares were preparing to join the Shawanese.
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