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Deposition of Thomas Bourke
(March 2, 1752)
Bourke, Thomas in: Public Record
Office, 78-243:198-199 and
in Pease and Jenison,
French Series, III,
pp. 503-505.
Thomas Bourke, native of Ireland, went to Pennsylvania about the year 1739, and has always since lived in that part of the world.
He says that he knows very well the country of the Five Nations Indians, called the Mingo or the Iroquois, with whom he has traded; that in the month of November, 1750 the deponent and two other Englishmen named Luke Erwin and Joseph Faltener were arrested by a detachment of about fifty French soldiers, commanded by Captain Baugier, Lieutenant Courtemanche, and another officer whose name he does not know, at (page 504) a place called Cuyahoga, about ten leagues from the fort which the French have built on Lake Sandusky, which is joined to the Great Lake Erie;
That this country is in the territory of the Five Nations which further extends divers leagues about it: . . .
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