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Capt. Croghan to
Col. Henry Bouquet
(Shippensburgh, June 11, 1763)
Croghan, George in: [B. M., Add. MSS.
21649, f. 160, L.] and in Stevens
et all. The Papers of Col. Henry
Bouquet, Series 21649, part I,
1942, pp. 143-144.
. . . from all these Letters I have from Fort Pitt that the Indians seem to have commited any Hostilities thereabouts but the Delawares, and from the [other] Speeches of the Beaver and his Council to Calhoon it Seems as if they intend to deny that they (page 144) were conserned with this great Breach of faith shou'd their [plottings] miscarry and not be able to accomplish their desires, & so Solicet their [person]. As the Acct of Defeat at Niagara by the Otaways & Cheepaways we have nothing for it but what the Delawares tell us, and by all accounts from Susquahanah and Mr Hunters Letter to Col. Burd from fort Augusta it appears to me that the [. . .] and Tuscarawas [. . .] aquainted with the [. . .] about the [. . .] of this Month, when a Delaware [. . .] all the [. . .] of the Ohio to the Great [Isl. . . ble] that the other Nations will Join the Del[ . . .] Success[es] against the small out Posts and then no Doubt they will fall upon the Frontiers with out they meet a Sufficient Check Soon. As to Detroit if those Nations, which the Delawares say had At[tempted] it, prove so it must fall, as the [. . .] very large without the French engage heartily & assist the Troops which I fear they will not, as I have been convinced near these twelve Months past that the French at the Illenoiis has been Spiriting up the [Ind]ians to Cut of our out Posts, all which Intelligence [you] know I remited to General Amherst, [. . .] doubt the French at Detroit were preva[iled . . . the] the designs of the ottaway's and Cheepaways, as now they have great influence over those Nations.
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