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(January 15, 1767)
Johnson, Sir William in: P. R. O.,
C. O., 5.68, f. 167 and in
Alvord & Carter, British
Series, Vol. II, Illinois
Historical Collections,
Vol. 11, pp. 485-487.
pp. 485.
I have Just received the Agreable news of Mr Croghan one of my Deputys having surmounted all the Difficulties which the French created to obstruct his transactions at the Illinois. He has at length in a public Congress there with Eight Nations divided into 22 Bands convinced them of the falsity of the stories with which they were formerly led away by the French and which is still daily practiced by them as Agents for the Spaniards, and having given them a present with repeated Assurances of His Majestys good intentions towards them with all which they appeared extremely well pleased, a Peace was publickly made between the English & them, & notwithstanding the French (who failed this year in Spiriting up any Tribes to attack him as they did last Summer) had interest enough to keep three Nations from attending the Congress, yet the favourable Reports of the rest, supported by the good conduct of the Six Nation Deputys who accompanied him, induced those three to come and ratify what the rest had done before his departure from the Ilinois.
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