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Letter to Johnson
(Ontario, Aug. 4, 1766)
Mac Leod, Normand in: The Papers
of Sir William Johnson,
vol. 12, pp. 150-151.
pp. 150.
FROM NORMAND MAC LEOD
Copy1
|
Ontario, the 4th. August 1766 |
SIR
A little after your departure, Pondiac and the rest of the Upper Nations sent the Interpreter to me to acquaint me, that the Mishilimackina Man was a great war Chief, that they were sorry that he had not been taken more notice of by you, as he was the only one of his Nation that came down. I told them it was not your fault as he was not represented to you as a man of such consequence, in short to please them I gave him a Silver gorget and two wrist bands, at which they all seem'd to be much pleas'd. I gave Pondiac four pounds of brown sugar to make him some toddy and a bottle of Madura, they seem'd to be extremely pleas'd and kept constantly telling me, they would never forget the promises they had made you and went off in the Evening very well satisfied.
Last Night one Monsieur Dejean arriv'd here from Detroit, he tells me that it's firmly believ'd at that place, that Pondiac is to receive ten Shillings sterling a day from the Crown of Great Britain, it seems this report has been used by his Enemys, to Create a Jealousy amongst the Indians that will end in his ruin. The Frenchman offered to lay me a beat that Pondiac would be killed in less than a year, if the English took so much notice of him. * * *
Mr. Newkerk2 one of
the traders here was with me Just now desiring liberty to go amongst the
Indians. I told him it was impossible to grant his request, he told me it was
very hard the English should be prevented when a French Man had liberty to
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1 In Oneida Historical Society, Utica, N. Y. Original was destroyed by fire. According to Johnson Calendar, p. 321, the missing portions indicated by asterisks in this copy dealt with "gifts to the Senecas, difficulties of MacLeod's situation, and dislike of the upper nations for Mr. [Jehu] Hay as commissary."
2 John Newkirk.
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