THE OHIO VALLEY-GREAT LAKES ETHNOHISTORY
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Letter to Johnson
(New York, Oct. 4, 1767)
Gage, Thomas in: The
Papers of Sir William
Johnson, vol. 12,
pp. 366-368.
p. 367.
the compleating of this Business I can't positively Say, as I have not heared. I suppose Lord Shelburne means the Virginians Seated on the Branches of the Monongahela, by Saying that I would co'operate with you, and give my Assisstance in removing the Southern Encroachments.
You will no doubt have received Advices from the Detroit as well as other Places, not only of the Machinations amongst the Several Nations, but also that Some Indians, Said to be the Chippewas of the Bay of Saquinam, had fallen upon the Crews of two Boats going down the ohio. This News is confirmed by a Trader just arrived at Fort Pitt from the Ilinois, whose Declaration I send you inclosed. Mr. Croghan will have this Intelligence at Fort-Pitt, and act accordingly.
I have Maturely considered every Intelligence in
general that has been transmitted Me concerning the Indians for these two years
past, and have never heared the least complaint about their Trade; Some
Discontent shewn by a few perhaps, that the Traders were not permitted as usual
to go into their Country. Every Precaution and Care has been taken to prevent
any Impositions or Frauds being practiced by the Traders, and Most People have
agreed in general, that they have bought their Goods Much cheaper than they had
done for many year's past. As I have mentioned, I am unacquainted with their
Grievance about the Boundarys. As for their Lands, I know of none but the
Encroachments of the Virginians, and the Affair of the Kayadorosseras Patent
Some of themselves first invited the Virginians there, and when Capt.
Murray4 went to remove them, He could get none but a few of the
Mingoes to accompany him. The Shawnees and Delawares refused, Saying it was
none of their Business, that the Lands belonged to the Senecas, and the Mingoes
a Tribe of that Nation, might See into it. The Insults they have received, by
having so many of their People killed and wounded without any Satisfaction
obtained, are certainly too visible. Of this Matter, and the Affair of
Kayadorosseras, so
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4 Captain William Murray, commandant at Fort Pitt.
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