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Letter to Farmar
(New York, March 12, 1766)
Gage, Thomas in: (Letter to Farmar
(copy)), Clements Library,
Gage Papers, American
Series, vol. 49,
Reel #10.
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Sir
I am to Acknowledge the Receipt of your Letters of the 16th of May & 1st of June from the Camp at New Orleans, and that of the 12th of August from the Natchs, with their Several Inclosures. As the matters contained in your Letters from New Orleans are mostly relative to the Information you received from Lieut. Fraser & Ross, and an Account of the treatment they had Undergone, as likewise the Disposition of the Savages which had Obliged them to quit the Ilinois, they now require no particular Answer; In relation to Lieut Ross, He, no doubt merits a Consideration for the fatiguing and Dangerous Journey he Undertook. I came now to your Letter of the 12th August, inclosing Two Court of Enquiries, relative to the Conduct of Mr Pittman the Engineer, and can not but Express to You my Dissatisfaction, upon every Occasion from your Quarter, to find matters of Complaint & Contestation, and that the King's Service is not carried on there, as in other parts, with such a Spirit of Harmony and good will to Each Other as alone can tend to the Success there of: I have not as yet Examined them, nor do I know when I Shall have leisure so to do.
In respect to Mr Anderson, he has wrote What he had no Authority to do, whether from Misapprehension or not I can't Say; I am Convinced You did not draw firemoney for him, & of Course could not Pay him, He may have been told, that he ought to have been Paid at Mobile during the time of his Service there, but never that he had been drawn for. He Shall be Spoke to, & Set right upon this head.-
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Major Farmar
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