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Letter to Johnson
(New York, June 1, 1767)
Gage, Thomas in: The
Papers of Sir William
Johnson, vol. 5,
pp. 322-323.
p. 323.
having never heard a Syllable about this Matter; But I Shall Notwithstanding Continue My Orders to the Officers Commanding to support them in their Duty, and to give them every Assistance they shall require when Necessary to Enforce Obedience to the Regulations for the Trade.
By a Letter from Detroit I find that Captain Turnbull has already delivered all the Presents in his Possession to Mr. Hay. You will possibly have heared from thence of the Murder of One Jadt a Frenchman killed near the Miamis by a Seneca Indian, Son of one Koasdaess, as they write his Name, and of the French at the Miamis, Encouraged by that Nation, killing the Seneca in Revenge for the Loss of their Countryman.-
I Say nothing of the Cash You are in want of, as Capt. Maturin7 Writes to You particularly upon the Subject.-
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7 Captain Gabriel Maturin.
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