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Letter to Gage
(Johnson Hall, April 6, 1770)
Johnson, Sir William in: The
Papers of Sir William
Johnson, vol. 12,
pp. 812-814.
Share in the Oneida purchase.- As soon as the Patent for the long Tract is passed Send it up, together with a proper Instrument or Release on parchment for those whose names are put in, in Trust, to Sign.- also the Survey of it, wh. Mr. Wallace promised to Send me some time ago. That Tract will Sell or Settle sooner than any I know. Many People have been speaking to me already for part of it.- Be so good as to desire Mr. Gaine the Printer to Send me pr next Post the Late Acts of Assembly. Excuse all this trouble, & beleive that I am most Sincerely
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W. JOHNSON |
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GOLDS BORROW BANYAR Esqr.
PS. I inclosed yr. letter to Croghan, to Mr. Fry, & desired him to forward it.
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March 30th,
1770 |
TO THOMAS GAGE
A. L. S.1
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Johnson Hall April 6th, 1770 |
DEAR SIR-
I have had the favour of yours2 with the letters from Mr. Stuart3 &ca., as to the pipe therein mentioned, I have had a verry particular Description of it from Several, and find it does not answer that given by him. The principal of ye. Cherokees on this (page 813) Embassy is a Man of some Consequence, well known to be such by the Six Nations, & furnished with Belts from all the Tribes & Towns of that Nation, but from the known Caution of Indians in these Matters, and their apprehension that probably they would have been dissuaded from their purpose, I am not at all surprised at their concealing part of their Errand from Mr. Stuart, which certainly is principally with a design to form an Alliance for carrying on a War against some of the Western Indians &ca.,4 and this is admitted in a great measure in Mr. Camerons5 letter but that it is not against the Chactaws, now I am induced to think that the Chactaws are not the People the Cherokees have for their Object, but that that comes from the Six Nations inclination to carry on a War against them, rather than against the Western Indians, but be this Circumstance as it will, a Union to carry on War in Conjunction is the principal Object of their Embassy.- I should by all means Inform You that I have received secret Intelligence which I think I can rely on, that the Kickappous, Piankashaws & Wawiaghtanoes with some others do intend in the beginning of Summer or sooner to Attempt the Reduction of the Ilinois, this I have had wth. many Circumstances from some Indians of Credit from a Confidence which they repose in me & which has induced them often to Communicate things the Discovery of which has been serviceable to the publick, & therefore I have no reason to doubt their putting it in execution, unless something material should divert them from it.- I now transmit You my Acct. to the 25th Ulto., and hope to be favoured with your Warrant for the Amount of It.- I am with great Truth and Esteem,
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Your most Obedient |
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& verry Humble Servant |
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W. JOHNSON |
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His Excellency GENERAL GAGE-
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1 In William L. Clements Library; draft in mutilated form was printed in Johnson Papers, 7:525-26.
2 March 18, 1770, Johnson Papers, 7:490-91.
3 John Stuart, southern superintendent of Indian affairs.
4 See Johnson to Hillsborough, Feb. 10, 1770, Doc. Rel. Col. Hist. N. Y., 8:203-04.
5 Alexander Cameron, commissary of Indian affairs.
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