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Deposition of John Patton
(March 8, 1752)
Patton, John in: Public Record
Office,
78-293:192-198 and in Pease and
Jenison, French Series,
III, pp. 490-503.
John Patton, born at Wilmington in the province of Newcastle in Pennsylvania, declares that he has always lived in that part of the world and that he has traveled much in the country (page 491) round about; that he was trading with the Indians in the vicinity of the source of the Miami River, which falls in to the Ohio; that on the river first named are settled the Indians called the Miami; that he know all that country very well; it belongs to the Five Nations, called the Mingo, and known to the French as the Iroquois, and extends divers leagues toward the Mississippi from the place where he was trading.
That November 20, 1750 a party of about twenty French soldiers, armed, commanded by Captain Villiers and Lieutenant Montigny, appeared at the place in the woods where the said Patton was, there being five or six Indian cabins in which were his goods: That having found the deponent, they secured his person and seized his goods which consisted of deerskins and furs which he had bought of the Indians, and of hardware, cloth, and other goods and property which he traded to the Indians for (page 492) their peltry and fur; That the French indeed did not take the deerskins but cut and spoiled them, trampling them under foot and throwing them about.
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