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Letter to Johnson
(Miamis, July 15, 1766)
Cole, Edward in: The Papers
of Sir William Johnson,
vol. 12, pp. 143-144.
risk, it seems difficult to prevent them, indeed I might say impossible, unless some Rules more strict than what are at present, can be formed for the trade. The Officers Commanding at the posts will have Orders to give what support and Assistance is in their power to the Commissarys, who will be allowed their Quarters and provisions &ca. The Medals will be finished in a few days, and as well done as they can be here.
Estimates are demanded, and I shou'd be obliged to you for a List of the several Deputy Commissary's Interpreters &ca in your Department with their Yearly Sallaries. These will be sufficient I presume for the treasury, as more compleat Estimates are sent by You every year as I understand to the Board of Trade.
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SIR WILLIAM JOHNSON Bt.-
I have forgot to acknowledge your Acct. which came inclosed in your letter. This with the Other will be paid as soon as you can find Means to draw, or get it sent to You.
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FROM EDWARD COLE
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DEAR SIR
I shall Leave this to morrow, Upon my arrival here The Chiefs, Sent for me, to take me by the hand, and well come me to their (page 144) Villige, and made a speach in which they Declared their firm Resolution to adhear Strictly to the peace they had made, then I acquainted them, where I was goeing, and my business, and gave them, a little milk. they Seem'd much pleased with the new regalations and now hoped every thing would go wright.
By a Shawanese that past through here Some days past, I shall be at the Illinois near as Soon as Mr. Croghan, who is to meet Some Indians at the mouth of the Ouiabache which will Detain him Some days.
I hope soon to write you from the Illinois, and in the interim with my Compts. to your Family,
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FROM BENJAMIN POMEROY
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HONRD. SIR-
I came here at the desire of the Board of Correspondents of the Colony of
Connecticut, commissioned by the Society in Scotland, for Indian Affairs, &
particularly of The Revd. Mr. Wheelock,3 in Company with his Son,4 to wait on your Excellency
for your Advice, relative to the Indian Charity School, under his Care. Mr. Whitaker5 writes from England yt it is necessary that a Place for fixing
it, & building for its Accomodation be pitch'd upon; and advises that
several of the most promising be mentioned, out
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1 Printed in Illinois Historical Collections, 11:338-39. Original in New York State Library was destroyed by fire.
2 (1, p. 144) In Dartmouth College Library.
3 (2, p. 144) Eleazar Wheelock.
4 (3, p. 144) Ralph Wheelock.
5 (4, p. 144) Rev. Nathaniel Whittaker, Wheelock's friend, who in December 1765, in company with Samson Occum visited England and Scotland to raise money for Wheelock's school.
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