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Peters to Monckton
(Philadelphia, Sept. 4, 1760)
Peters, Richard in: Aspinwall Papers,
Coll. of the Mass. Hist. Soc.,
vol. IX, 4th series,
pp. 313-315.
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PETERS TO MONCKTON.
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PHILADELPHIA 4 Septr 1760. |
SIR,
Yours of the 21st Aug came here the 29th. Your Indian Treaty has ended well and I congratulate you thereon. (page 314) The ready manner in which all the Tribes of Western Indians have acknowledged that the Ohio Lands belong to the Six Nations will cut off abundance of trouble and dispute which was expected would arise from their affecting to aim of an Independcy & the Ownership of Lands. This I have heard has been given out in Speeches by very principal Indians, but such an open & unsought Acknowledgment of the Right of the Six Nations puts an End to all fears of this sort.
Is there no way of bringing Mr Langdale to a sense of himself? The Govr is vastly displeased at such Conduct & his Constituents by their Instructions have not given him the least Countenance. Pity but he should smart a little.
Monsieur Belletr, who I suppose commands at Detroit, was very unpolitick in his measures & will I hope be made to repent it. If the Party do not cool before they get to Detroit, they may do abundance of mischief as it may well be thought that many have retreated there imagining they would be safer, & have carried their fears and wretchedness along with them.
King Teedyuscung has shewed himself to be what he always was- but the people who put his Mask on at first had craft enough to hold it on when they were present. Now yt he had not his advisers with him nature lost place & he was seen to be a senseless, low, drunken wretch.
It gives me pleasure to find the Communication shorten so much as to admit of your having a Letter in 14 days from Oswego.
A small touch of a sore throat obliges me to keep in my Chamber so that I know not what the Gov will do as to the recruiting of the Provincials for the Winter. The Assembly sits on Monday & will I am afraid be in an ill humour at their having their Acts of Assembly reported against. No news of General Amherst since he left Oswego.
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