THE OHIO VALLEY-GREAT LAKES ETHNOHISTORY
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Capt. Campbell to
Col. Henry Bouquet
(Detroit, July 22, 1761)
Campbell, Donald in: B.M., Add. MSS.
21647, f. 35, A. L. S. and in Stevens,
et all., The Papers of Col. Henry
Bouquet, Series 21647,
1942, pp. 26-27.
I Wrote you very fully 7 by one of the Seneca Indians, who promised faithfully to deliver it to you,
I now send you A Copy of the last Indian Council, by which youll see the whole designs of the Six Nations laid open, this I hope will put it out of their power to deny their bad intentions.
I am glad the Delaware have hithertoo behaved so well, I am well informed they waited for the result of the Council here, & were to be entirely determined by the part of the Nations here took in the Affair.
The Shawanees who came to the Council at Sandoskye were invited here by the Wiandots to inform them of what had passed at the Council with the Six Nation deputys.
The Wiandots assembled the Other Nations of Detroit & brought the Shawanees with them to me and in my presence, delivered them belts of Wampum telling them they were affraid they had listned too much to the bad Councils of the Six Nations and recommended it to them in the strongest Manner to be friends with the English & by no means to disturb the peace of the Country, that if they continued to hear the bad Councils of the Six Nations against the English, they could look upon them no longer as their friends.
This the Shawanies promised to tell their Chiefs & said they did not doubt but they would pay the greatest regard to their Advice, but at same time Observed that the English had treatned to Kill them for not delivering up their prisoners
I have sent A Batteau to Sandosky for the Ammunition you was so good as send me it will come in good time, as I have been Obliged to buy some from the traders,
(July 22, 1761)
The Indians have constant demands upon me and think themselves intitled to all the favours that we can bestow upon them, for their good behaviour in this last Affair, for which reason I have been Obliged to take more upon me since that time.
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