THE OHIO VALLEY-GREAT LAKES ETHNOHISTORY
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Morgan to His Wife
(June 29 - July 8, 1766)
Morgan in: Woodbridge Mss. and
Alvord & Carter, British Series,
Vol. II, Illinois Historical
Collections, Vol. 11,
pp. 315-317.
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SCIOTO RIVER, July 1st, 1766. |
We arrived here Sunday afternoon and pitched our tents on a fine ground on the edge of the river. About two hundred Indians had been waiting here several days to receive us.
Mr. Croghan has had several conferences with them in all which he is much pleased. They never were more heartily disposed to continue a peaceable correspondence with their fathers the English.
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CAMP FOUR MILES
BELOW SCIOTO, |
The Moment I had finished the above I was called to supper and the next morning and since then I have been so much engaged That I have not had time to speak to you. Mr. Croghan did not finish treating with the Indians untill last Thursday night. They have fixed on a number of their Chiefs to accompany Mr. Croghan. How many others will offer their services to go along I do not know, but I suppose we will have at least fifty in all.
He has made them presents to the amount of 1800 all of which he bought of me and yet you cannot perceive any have been taken out of my boats, so deep are they yet loaded.
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