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Letter to Croghan
(Fort Pitt, Sept. 20, 1767)
McKee, Alexander in: The
Papers of Sir William
Johnson, vol. 5,
pp. 686-687.
[ I] spoke to him upon the occasion who will try to get you a [ ] If through any means this should happen to fail you, I [ com]mand my services for any other place which it will [ ] obtaining as I should be very sorry you reaped [ ] [ ] no Vacant Crown Lands worth taking up [ 1]
ALEXANDER MC KEE TO GEORGE CROGHAN
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SIR
On the 17th. Instant arrived Devereaux Smith a Trader who went form hence to the Ilinois last spring, he left Fort Chartres the 27th July, and on his way up the River found a Battoe with some Goods which appeared to have been robb'd of part of her Cargo; the particulars of which I must beg leave to refer you to his information, which I herewith inclose you.2 - The same day Monsr. Maisonville & Aron a Mohawk came here from D'troit, Mr. Maisonville informs me that on his way to D'troit he was told that a Party of Ten Chipawas from Saganas Bay had returned form War; as had been suppozed from against the Southern Indians, but sundry Goods being seen with them confessed to have Murdered Eleven White Men in two Battoes, & plundered [ ] It is said some of Pondiacs relations were in [ ] But Maisonville will be able to acquaint you of the truth of this as well as anything else you may [ ] necessary to Know relative to it.- And also of the present Dispositions of the Nations amongst whom he has ben;- Those of the Wabash he says are much dissatisfied & he seems to think that an Uneasiness is amongst them in general;- The Meeting I informed you of in my last to be held at the Lower Shawanese Town,3 can not be so soon as the Shawanese expected, as the (page 687) Nations that are to Assemble there Mr. Maisonville tells me were not collected together;- when he passed the Miamies; Be pleased to ask him what he Knows of their intentions by this meeting, as he seems to hint to me he has some thing to acquaint you of relative to it.-
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JEHU HAY TO GEORGE CROGHAN
A. L. S.
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[Detroit Sepr., 21, 1767] |
[ 4] [ ] Some of the Material [ ] [ ] you by Letter, if you think I am to minutes [ ]equence pray let me know. You'l see at what [ ] I have given any presents; except it be now & then some [ all] of which I have kept Memorandums.
I have promised two Medals to two St Joseph Chiefs which you'l [ ]kd when they came here, in the Transactions of the 11 of July. I also told that [ ]
[] place when they came in about the English
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1 Several lines missing.
2 Extract from Journal of Devereaux Smith, July 17, 1767, q. v.
3 On the Scioto river, in Ohio.
4 (1, p. 687) Several lines missing.
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