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Croghan to Gage
(May 26, 1765)
Croghan, George in: Public Record
Office, Colonial Office, 5:83 f.
697 and in British
Series, vol. II,
pp. 22-23.
Extract of
a Letter from Mr Croghan, Deputy Agent of Indian Affairs,
to His Excellency Major General Honble Thomas Gage.
Dated, Scioto River, 26th May 1765.
As soon as I Set out from Fort Pitt, I spoke to the Shawnese about the French Traders that was yet at their Towns, near the Plains of Scioto, & told them, they must Send Some of their Warriors to bring those French Traders to the Mouth of the Scioto that I might take them to the Illinois, as they had no right now to Trade with any Indian Nations without a permission from your Excellency, which they Agreed to do, tho' with some Reluctance, and this day a Number of the Shawanese Arrived here & brought with them Seven Frenchmen Traders, which was all that was in their Towns, & delivered them to Me, which I take to be a further proof of this Nations Sincerity. There is yet Five Frenchmen Amongst the Delawares, to whom I have Wrote, to Set Off Immediately to the Illinois, & the Shawnese has undertaken to bring them down, so that there will be no French Traders amongst those Nations Unless Your Excellency thinks proper to give them, Liberty hereafter.- Those Shawnese inform Me, that the Ottawas, and Pouteatamies, residing near St. Josephs, and the Twightwees Seem Discontented, and look on themselves as Neglected by the English, not having received any Message from Us, Since Colonel Bradstreet was at Detroit; And Say, there is now near Two Hundred of those Nations at the Mouth of the Miami's River, waiting to See Me, so that I hope I shall be able to Settle Matters with them, & reconcile them to His Majesty's Interest.- Lieut Fraser passed by this the Sixth of April, I Hope He is got Safe to the Illinois; I Expect in Eight Days to be at the Ouabache, where (page 23) the Nations residing on that River is to Meet Me: And from thence I will Send Your Excellency a Copy of my Transactions with those Nations.
Endorsed: Extract of a Letter from Mr Croghan Dep: Agent for Indian Affairs to His Excelly Gen Gage Dated Scioto River 26th May 1765 In Majr Genl Gage's Letter of the 10th Augt 1765. Informing of the State of Indian affairs in that Quarter. Inclosure. 3 in No. I Bundle E.
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