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Gen. Lewis to
Col. William Fleming
(Fort Pitt, Aug. 14, 1778)
Lewis, Andrew in: Draper Ms.,
2U44, Autograph Letter Signed,
in Kellogg, Frontier Retreat
on the Upper Ohio, and in
Wisconsin Hist. Colls.,
vol. 23, pp. 127-128.
pp. 127.
COMMISSIONERS AT FORT PITT
[Gen. Andrew Lewis to Col. William Fleming. 2 U44. A. L. S.]
|
FORT PITT August ye 14th 1778 |
SIR:
I arrived here on the 1st Day of this
mo. after being detained several Days by rains & high waters and matters I
believe will turn out much as I expected. The Indian Agent at Congress. No
Indians Assembled. The Instructions for y Commissioners not come to hand. My
Brother Tho'1 who is with me in room of Mr Walker, & I
have wrote Congress, & here we must wait an Answer. By a speech White Eyes
has sent to this place, to Mr Morgan ye Agent we larn
that at a Treaty held at Detroit all ye Tribes, The Delawares
excepted, has received the Hatchet, & promised to use it against us, &
that he every Day expected the Hatchet sent to his Nation who the other Nations
thratned to striek in case they did not except of it, & seemed to intimate
that unless they were aided by a sufficient force they would be compeled to act
against us. This is the prospect we have at present & nothing remains but
to prepaire in every quarter for their resception for before the War be carryed
in to their Country with a suffician force in vaine will it be to expect any
Degree of safety & I am sorry to have it to tell you that there are no
force at this place equale to acting in ye offencive way nor even to
afford the necessary protection to ye settlements agasent to this
Post, no less than 4 or 5 murders has been commited near to this place since I
came too it, & ye Enemy has on all ocations got off with
Impunity. General McIn[t]osh has not above 200 effective men
exclusive of Militia who are stationed at small Forts for ye
protection of ye Inhabitants. From every circumstance Congress has
lay asid the thought of carrying on ye Expedition this Year, tho
they have not given ye General that notice. In a Letter I have wrote
General Washington, as well as in the Letter we wrote Con-
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1 For Thomas Lewis see Dunmore's War, 312, note 30.
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