THE OHIO VALLEY-GREAT LAKES ETHNOHISTORY
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T. Wharton
to B. Franklin
(August 14, 1765)
Wharton, Thomas in: Amer.
Phil. Soc. Franklin Papers,
1:156 and in Alvord &
Carter, British Series,
Vol. II, pp. 73-75.
since my last We have further Occasion to dread the Mischevious Consequences which must (if not timely Prevented) flow from the Conduct of those wretched frontier Inhabitants) Our Governor has received a Letter from Thomas Magee informing Him, that some of those People had kill'd an Indian Lad, & that the Delawares had declared, unless they received Satisfaction for the Murther & a stop was put to those practices, as well as the abuses they suffer, (page 74) by some of those People, Carrying out of bad Liquours & other Goods, they should be under the absolute necessity, of entring into another War, Nor can I learn that any steps are taking to sett this Matter right.
Three days past, advice was receiv'd from George Croghan, that in Pursuing his Passage down the Ohio, He was sett upon, by a party of Indians belonging to Pondiac, in which engagement He lost Three of the Shawanese Chiefs, that Himself & Nephew were slightly wounded, that as soon as Pondiac's People knew who they were, they expressed great Concern at what had hapned, & promis'd to give Him no further Obstruction in his Passage; He was then within two or three days March of the Illinois and doubted not of succeeding in the Engagement He had undertaken.
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