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Letter to Yeates
(Fort Pitt, Oct. 2, 1777)
Hand, Edward in: Thwaites &
Kellogg, Frontier Defense
on the Upper Ohio,
pp. 118-120.
Dear Yeates- From Intelligence recd. Yesterday from the Delaware at Coochachunk, I find that the Tweetees, Wyachtanas, & Kickapoos, have returned (page 119) the Tomahawk, and that the Tribe of Delawares headed by Wendaughaland are Waivering. The Regular Troops at Detroit, amt. to no more than 70, & the Militia to 300, so that we need not dread a Visit from that Quarter, though the People here are well Disposed, savage like, to Murder a defenceless unsuspecting Indian...
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