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Sir William Johnson to
Sir Jeffery Amherst
(Johnson Hall, Oct. 6, 1763)
Johnson, Sir William in: [B. M., Add. MSS.
21634, f. 414, C.] and in Stevens
et all. The Papers of Col. Henry
Bouquet, Series 21634, 1940,
(Extract), pp. 282-283.
This Morning a Seneca Chief of Canadasegey the first Castle of that Nation, and which has not been Concerned in any of the Hostilities; arrived here and gives me the following Information, which he had from a Party of Warriors Just Returned with some Scalps, & Prisoners from the Cherokee Country, Vizt "That on their way home they met a Large (page 283) Body of Several Nations Assembled at a Village of Delawares on the River Adjuketa, which Emptys into Muskingum or Elk River, where they Saw the Ottawawa Confederacy Deliver the War Hatchet, Bow & Arrows to the Delawares; And desire they would use the same with Vigour against the English, who were about taking away their Country. That they then pointed out the Forts Pitt & Augusta as the greatest Eye Sores to the Indians in them parts; therefore desired they would loose no time in Distressing and Attacking them, on which they would all Joyn in a Body & proceed towards Philadelphia, that while the Delawares were Engaged in that Affair, they, the Ottowas, Twighties, Hurons &ca woud Demolish Detroit & Niagara. The Delawares thanked them for looking upon them now as Men, and told them, they would, by their Actions, show them they were worthy of the Confidence reposed in them.- After which the Huron Speaker addressed the Shawanese, and warmly Repremanded them for their backwardness in Sending their time hitherto so Idly, in Treaties & Conferences, with the English, to prevent which they, the Ottowawa Confederacy, Plucked the Horns from their Heads (i.e. removed everything but War from the thoughts of their Sachims) and made them become Warriors, desireing they would Exert themselves in Conjunction with the Delawares to which they Agreed."
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