THE OHIO VALLEY-GREAT LAKES ETHNOHISTORY
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Albemarle to Holdernesse
(March 8, 1752)
Albemarle in: Public Record Office,
78-243:173-175 and in Pease and
Jenison, French Series,
III, pp. 488-490.
p. 489.
. . . I enclose a Copy of that paper for Your Lordship's Information in which are collected the Several Heads of Complaint, contained in Governor Clinton's letter, and the others that accompanied it; Your Lordship will observe; that tho', according to Mr Clinton's Notes in Mor de la Jonquiere's Letter to him, he is of opinion, as to the Prisoners taken by the French, that it would seem that the Governor of Pensilvania is the most proper person to make remarks on that part of the Letter, as the prisoners belonged to that Government, (which remarks have not been sent me, if made) yet as he has said a little before, that the Country, in which the Prisoners were taken, belonged to the five Nations, and that great part of the River Ohio was actually within the Grant to the Proprietors of Pensilvania, I have chose not to wait 'til an answer from the Governor of Pensilvania can be had (which We could always have recourse to) but to lay hold of that, not to lose time, to deny the Power the French Governor pretends to have, of giving Ordinances forbidding the English to trade in those parts, the Infraction of which occasioned the seizing of those people whom Governor Clinton demands of him, with a Satisfaction for the Seizure and Confiscation of their Effects (and which I have repeated as Your Lordship directs) As I thought this Argument sufficient for the present to overturn those of the French Governor's, which turn upon that Principle; and to condemn his Conduct, in which I hope I shall not be disapproved.
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