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John Frazier to Young
(Forks, August 27, 1753)
Frazier, John in: A. T. Goodman,
A Journal of Captain Wm.
Trent. . . 1752. Cincinnati,
Robert Clarke & Co.,
1871, pp. 59-60.
. . . In a letter from John Frazier to an Indian trader named Young, dated "Forks, August 27, 1753," we find the following reference to Trent:
"There is hardly any Indians now here at all, for yesterday there set off along with Captain Trent and French Andrew, the heads of the Five Nations, the Picts, the Shawanees, Owendots, and the Delawares, for Virginia; and the Half King set off to the French fort, with a strong party along with him, to warn the French off their land entirely, which, if they did not comply to, then directly the Six Nations, the Picts, Shawanees, Owendots, and Delawares were to strike them without loss of time. The Half King was to be (page 60) back in twenty days from the time he went away; so were the Indians from Virginia. Captain Trent was here the night before last, and viewed the ground the fort is to be built upon, which they will begin in less than a month's time. The money has been laid out for the building of it already, and the great guns are lying at Williamsburg ready to bring up. The French are daily deserting from the new fort. One of them came here the other day whom I sent to Captain Trent; he has him along with him to Virginia.
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