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Lieutenant Lindesay's Report
of Indian News &c.
(Oswego, Feb. 5, 1751)
Lindesay, Lieutenant in: Documents
Relative to
the Colonial History of the State of New
York (Lon. Docs.:
XXX),
vol. VI, pp. 706-707.
pp. 706-707.
. . .
May 4th Came here a Mesasagah Canoe (with Indians) who came and saw me and told for News, that there was an Army passed Cataracque, in order to build a Fort where Joncaire was, and to run off the Shawanahs, Chanundadies, and Twig-Twee Indians (who live at Kyahagah on the Drafts of Ohio & Ohio) and with whom the Philadelphians trade, and to drive them from thence, and that there was a good many Indians to go with said army. I told them as they had entered into an Alliance with the five Nations in defence of said Indians, and opposed the views of the French, which was to make slaves of all Indians. Adrawanah being here I sent for him, and made them repeat the News to him, who seemed much troubled with it. I did all I could to shew the Frenches Views in all their doings, and to shew that they treated the five Nations and all other Indians, as their Slaves, who had neither liberty nor property.
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