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Col. Mercer to
Gen. John Stanwix
(Pittsburgh, Aug. 6, 1759)
Mercer, Hugh in: B. M., Add. Mss.
21655, f. 69, C and in Stevens, et
all.The Papers of Col. Henry
Bouquet, Series 21655,
1943, p. 67.
p. 67.
Since my last to Colonel Bouquet of the 1st Inst nothing material has happened here. The Wiandots from Venango arrived the 3d and next Day the Beaver & a Number of his People came in to hold a Conference with them, and the other Western Tribes, for settling the affair of the Delawares interfering, in Opposition to our Messages, at Venango. This continues and I can See no hopes of an End to it, the expensive Consumption of Provisions; by which it is put out of my power to save an Ounce between the Convoys. . .
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