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An Enquiry into the Causes
of Alienation
Charles Thomson1 in: An Enquiry into the Causes
of the
Alienation of the Delaware and Shawanese Indians
from the British Interests,
London (1759), p. 15.
p. 15.
(page 15) Gov. Keith (1722) said "he
heard the Tweektwees [Miami] were coming as Enemies against this country, which
he thought must be false as he had never hurt the Tweektwees.
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1 [Charles Thomson was a friend of Franklin's. Early member of APS- Secy. 1769-70. Councillor 1781-83. Lived to be 95- died 1824. His portrait is in Independence Hall, by West?- EWV.]
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