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Indian Intelligence
(Fort Stanwix, Sept. 30, 1768)
In: The Papers of Sir William
Johnson, vol. 12,
pp. 601-603.
to inform You of the Arrival of the Whole at this place within a few Days, and remain with the most perfect regard
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His Excellency
GENERAL GAGE-
In the body of the letter I forgot to mention that I have received some intelligence from a Delaware I think I may Credit, the particulars of wh. I also enclose.-
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INDIAN INTELLIGENCE
Contemporary Copy1
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Intelligence Received from a Delaware Indian just arrived here from Fort Chartres in the Illinois Country which Place he left about one hundred and ten days agoe.
He informs me that while he was there he took several oppertunitys of Conversing with the Cheifs of the Huskuskees, and other Tribes of Indians who live in that Country. That he found (page 602) them much in the french and Spanish Interest. That they looked on them as one People and that hey informed him a war would soon break out in that Country with the french & Spaniards, and the English, and that all the Nations living on the Mississipie, with the Chocktaws had Engaged to join the French and Spaniards.
That the Spaniards were building a strong Fort Near the Missurie and intended to build two more as Soon as that was Finished.
He says while he was there he went to See the Corn Cob, a Shawannise Chief, who has lived long with the French, and is well acquainted with all the Councils of the French and Indians in that Country, and he Confirmed Every thing the other Indians had told him, and added tho' the English thought the several tribes of Indians thereabouts were their friends they would find themselves mistaken for to his knowledge they had all engaged to Assist the French and Spaniards as far as St. Joseph's, and were Ready to strike the English as soon as the French and Spaniards let them know they were Ready.
While he was at Fort Chartres and Englishman with three Indians arrived there from the Sea Side with Letters for the Commanding Officer of that post (by the description of the place they came from, I immagine it must be Pensacola) after the Commanding Officer perused his Letters he says he desired him to prepare himself to return to Fort Pitt the Next day as he wanted to send letters there, and he says the Officer told him that he Expected the French and Spaniards there to fight with the English as they were preparing at New orleans in order to Come up the river for that purpose.
This Indians says he set off the Next day with letters for Fort Pitt and as he passed through the Nations living on the Oubache he says he found the English had no freinds amongst them but the Twigtwees and Weoughtanons, and while he was at Weoughtanon2 a Party of the Kicapos past by there with two (page 603) English scalps which they had taken at Fort Chartres after he Left it.
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AGREEMENT BETWEEN MOHAWK AND STOCKBRIDGE INDIANS
Contemporary Copy3
Copy of Agreement between the Mohocks
& Stockbridge
Indians made in the Presence of Sir William Johnson Bart.
at
Fort Stanwix September the 30th,
1768.-
We the Sachims, Chiefs, and Warriors of the Mohocks assembled this day at
Fort Stanwix together with the Indians of Stockbridge in the Presence of Sir
William Johnson Bart. his Majesty's
Superintendant of Indian Affairs, Do at the Desire of the Stockbridge Indians,
and in consequence of a former Promise made them in public Meeting, Now,
Declare, and make known to all People that we do freely, and Unanimously Yeild
up, and Quit any Claim we may have had to Lands on the East Side of Hudson's
River, or to any Pretensions they the Stockbridge Indians may have along the
East bounds of our Just and true Claim which is bounded by Hudson's River
upwards to Fort Edward, thence to Wood Creek, and from thence along the Same to
Lake Champlain, and down the Same to the Mouth of Otter Creek, the
Country to the Westward of which that has not been fairly disposed of by us, or
our Ancestors, remaining in us, as the rest formerly did. All which the
Stockbridge Indians do acknowledge, Neither are they ever after to dispute any
Sales of Lands formerly made to the Eastward of Hudson's River, by the
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1 In William L. Clements Library; inclosed in Johnson to Gage, Sept. 30, 1768.
2 Ouiattanon, present day LaFayette, Indiana.
3 (1, p. 603) In Canadian Archives, Indian Records, Vol. 8.
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