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Croghan to Major Gates
(Fort Pitt, June 17, 1760)
Croghan, George in: Aspinwall Papers,
Coll. of the Mass. Hist. Soc.,
vol. IX, 4th series,
pp. 261-262.
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TO MAJOR GATES.
INDORSED INDIAN INTELLIGENCE FROM CAPT. CROGHAN.
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JUNE the 17th (1760) |
A Weyondott Indian who lives on this side of the Lakes at a place called Chinundeda and came here the 15th, but getting drunk on the other side of the River did not come over till this day, gives me the following Intelligence.
He says it is twelve days since he left his Town,- that a Weyondott Indian from Fort D'Troit came there two days before he set off and informed the Indians that the Commanding Officer of Fort D'Troit had received a Letter from the carrying Place at the Head of Wabash acquainting him that there was a Detachment of French arrived there with Ammunition and Provisions from Mississippi and that the whole Country was raised and on their March up this River to attack this Post, and that they had the Warriors of three Nations of Indians with them, that he the Commanding officer of Fort D'Troit had orders to hold himself in Read- (page 262) iness to March when he received orders, with the Troops and Militia of that Settlement and what Indians he could prevail to join him, and that he had sent his Children the Weyondotts notice thereof that they might prepare themselves. Further that he had received Letters likewise from the Governor of Montreal that there was a large Army coming from there to take Niagara in order to open the passage into this Country that he might come and take care of his Children the Indians, Clothe them and give them his Good advice. The same Messinger told that one of the Mohawks that went from here this Spring to D'Troit was put in Prison by the Commanding Officer and that the Ottawas, Putewatimies and Weyandotts held a grand Council in which it was Determined to Demand the Prisoner and if refused to fall on the Garrison and Murder them all, as there was double the number of Indians that there were of French, accordingly the Indians went and Demanded the Prisoner, which the Commanding Officer refused to deliver. Then the Ottawas and Puttwatimees pushed to put their Design in Execution, but the Weyondotts perswaded them to defer it and make another Trial to get him out before they would shed so much Blood. (inclosed in the following letter)
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BOUQUET TO MONCKTON.
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FORT PITT 20th June 1760. |
SIR,
I arrived the 16th at this Post which does not fully answer my Expectations. The Barracks made of green Wood or bad Bricks want already much Repair and some Parts of the Works raised in haste must be pulled down & be made up again.
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