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Pontiac War
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Schoolcraft,
Henry R. in: "Discourse |
(VII) Page 63. PONTIAC WAR.- The following facts are mentioned in the British annual Register for 1763.
"On Lake Erie, with a crowd of canoes, they (the Indians) attacked a schooner, which conveyed provisions to the fort of Detroit, but they were not so successful. Though in their savage navy they had employed near 400 men, and had but a single vessel to engage, they were repulsed, after an hot engagement, with considerable loss. This vessel, was to them, as a fortification on the water, and they could not make their attacks with so much advantage as upon the enemy by land.
Subsequent numbers of the same work state- That on the 3d of April, 1764, Sir William Johnson concluded, at Johnson Hall, on the Mohawk, preliminary articles of peace and friendship with 8 deputies of the Seneca nation, which was the only one of the Iroquois, who had joined Pontiac.
In August 1764, General Bradstreet granted 'Terms of Peace' to certain deputies of the Delawares, Huron and Shawnee tribes, at Presque Isle, (Penn) being then on his way to relieve Detroit. By this treaty, they agreed to deliver up all the English prisoners.
In October of the same year Col. Bouquet, granted similar terms to an other deputation of Shawnees, Delawares, and other tribes who had been active in the war, at Tuscarawas, (now in Ohio.)
The delivery of the English prisoners was subsequently made by the western Indians, and gave rise to the exibition of a feeling of attachment to these prisoners, which in striking contrast to their usual cruelty in war.
Most of these prisoners had been adopted as children, or received as members of Indian families. 'From every inquiry that has been made 'adds the editor,' it appears that no woman thus saved, is preserved for base purposes, or need fear the violation of her honor. No child is otherwise treated by the persons adopting it, than the children of their own body. The perpetual slavery of those captivated in war, is a notion which their barbarity has not yet suggested to them. Every captive whom their affection, their caprice, or whatever else leads them to save, is soon incorporated with them, and fares alike with themselves.
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