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Indian Intelligence
(July 11, 1763)
In: The Papers of Sir William
Johnson, vol. 4,
p. 169.
p. 169.
TO JEFFERY AMHERST
In Doc. Rel. to Col. Hist., N. Y., 7:532-33, is a letter to Sir Jeffery Amherst, dated July 11, on the fall of Venango and other forts, hostility of the Chenussios, loyalty of the Onondagas and a coming conference at the German Flats.
INDIAN INTELLIGENCE
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[July 11, 1763] |
Intelligence from the Waweotonan1 Indian
The S Joseph Indians, Puttewatimies & Ottawas, with a tribe of the Chepwas, from Mitchilimacina, with an Indian calld the Grand Sota at their head, are much disafected to the English Interest & Threaten to renew the War. They have been at the Ilinois, & received large Presents privatly from the French, & is to attempt their first stroke at Mitchilimacina. This Intelligence ahs been Confirm'd to me, by the twightwees from Meamies who say those disafected Tribes ask'd them to be Concern'd with them.
INDORSED: Intelligence from Michilimackinac
TO CADWALLADER COLDEN
A. L. S.2
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Johnson Hall July 13th, 1763- |
DEAR SIR
It gave me great Satisfaction to hear of your entering again upon the Administration,3 with which I was only acquainted the day before the receipt of your kind favour of ye 2d.4
The present unhappy troubles in which ye
Westeren Inds & ca
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1 Wawiaghtonon, Ouiatonon, a French town in Indiana, at the junction of the Tippecanoe and Wabash rivers.
2 In the New York Historical Society, New York City.
3 By the departure of Governor Robert Monckton, who had sailed for England.
4 See Collections of the New York Historical Society, 1876, Colden Papers, p. 216-17.
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