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Letter to Johnson
(New York, April 7, 1774)
Haldimand, Frederick in: The
Papers of Sir William
Johnson, vol. 8,
pp. 1118-1119.
FROM FREDERICK HALDIMAND
Contemporary Copy1
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New York 7th, Apl. 1774. |
DEAR SIR
I have to acknowledge the receipt of your two letters of the 19th & 31st ulto. together with your half Year's Acct. for which I have order'd a Warrant & sent you herewith will be disposed of as usual, as I observe that there is an augmentation in the list of Salaries. I suppose that your appointment of Mr Hay as Commissary at Detroit has occasioned it.
I am very glad to See the readiness with which the Six Nations at your request, have agreed to interpose their influence to prevent the Cherokees joining with the Creeks, but as it is probable Still that matters Shall be accommodated with the latter, I can not but commend greatly Your prudence in putting off their mediation as long as there is a possibility of not wanting it. I have hopes that we may be able to do without as I can not find that the Creeks have committed any more hostilities. Since Jan last, the letters I daily expect from Mr Stuart, will determine nearly what can be expected and the turn that that affair will take. I shall transmit you the earliest intelligence of it, that if a rupture shou'd take place you may cooperate with in the means to endeavour to obtain a Satisfaction adequate to the offense, the departure of the Shawanese portends no good. I shou'd be glad to be informed, where they have fixed their residence and doubt not your being able to check their evil designs.
Mr. Jehu Hay being a person on who's knowledge and good Sense & judgment I have great reliance I have prevailed on him to go to the Illinois, to procure an exact description of that country and it's inhabitants. I shall by him Send a proclamation relative to the incroachments attempted by some of our people (page 1119) on the Wabash & shall give the Strictest orders to the Commy. officer to prevent any such attempts by all the means in his power.
Sir John having determined to return home I send this by him & must express my Sorrow of having had so little of his company, he has so many friend here, that it was not in my power to Shew him the civilities which I wou'd be glad to shew any time to the son of a person for whom I have so much regard. Permit me to conclude with the assurances of the great esteem with which I am
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FROM RICHARD MOSLEY
In the Johnson Calendar, p. 532, is entered a letter of April 11th from Richard Mosley, New York, declaring his gratitude for kindness experienced at Johnstown (printed in Doc. Hist. N. Y., 4:504; Q. 4:312).
FROM JOHN MONIER
A. L. S.
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Albany 11th April 1774 |
SIR
I have your letter of Yesterday. I Recd. your Pork &c and have already sent sufficient forward
to satisfy the Hungry Copper Coulerd Gentry who I find are Troublesome to you
on a late occasion, and by their making some retaliation it seems as if they
were bro. to a just sense of their misconduct, happy for some of us, that you
Sir, is so Indefatigable in your Troblesome Department.
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1 In British Museum. Addition Manuscripts 21670. fo. 125, London, England.
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