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Letter to Johnson
(August 8, 1769)
Croghan, George in: The
Papers of Sir William
Johnson, vol. 7,
pp. 77-79.
FROM GEORGE CROGHAN
A. L. S.
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Augst the 8th, 1769 |
[ ] SIR
yesterday Evening I was Informd. of your honers Return home & hope you and the Gentlemen with you are in Good (page 78) Helth. I have had a Voilant fitt of ye. Gout with a hurt in My foot wh. has Confind. Me to My Hutt Sence ye. friday after your Honer Sett of on yr. Journay yett am only able to hoble about the Room when I Shall be able to Walke or Ride Seems very uncertian.
Mr. Metcalf is Return. & has finished the Boundary Line. Inclosed I Send your Honer a Leter wh. I had from Mr. Wharton for yr. perruseal with one from Farrel [Wa]de Incloseing Me A Leter for you and [ ] Leters I have had from Mr. Hay att [De]troit with Some Acounts, wh. he had Drawn on Me for Mr. Hay Takes No Not[ice ] I Wrote him the 29th of Feby last [ ] that to Desist from acting as Comisary [ ] Surprises Me I Sent the Leter by the [ ] Fort Pitt with Some others to Detroit [ ] have Received answers to My other Leters [ ] am Sorry his Should Miscarrey. I Wrote h[im] Likewise ye. 2d. May Last by a boat then [ ] to Detroit which he has Nott Received [ ] Likewise unlucky, I will be Glad [ ] from yr. Honer whether those acounts [are to] be paid or No & whether I May Write ye. G[entlemen] who has the Drafts to Wate on you with [ ] as they Seem Impaicent to know how [they are ] to be paid.
I have A Leter from Mr. Baynton wh. [ ] Me that the Interpreters & Smiths have [drawn] on Me from Fort Chartres for thire [ ] pay from ye. 24th Sepr. to ye. 24th March [amounting] to 231:9:6 & am att a Loss whet [ ] yr. honor has been in the Six Nation [coun]try. I have had Some Leters from Ohio [ ] Some Information from an Indian [fro]m thence all wh. Say that there is a Great Number of Senecas & Some Cayugoes gon there this Spring Some to Setle amoungst the Dalloway & Some with ye. Shannas and that ye. Sinecas there, Shannas & Dallaways has had a Councel with ye. Tweetwees Waweattenas Pyankeehy, (page 79) Musquetomeys & 1 who Live on the Wabauch & have agreed that in Case any Diferance Should hapen between any of them & any other Nation that the whole Should Rise up as on Man and Strike there has been some boats of [Mor]gans Cutt of on the ohio this Spring [a] Store of his plundred att post Vincent [a] White Man Killd. att Fort pitt by a Sineca Indian two More White men Killd. Neer the [ ] kill by Indians, which if True, all [ ] Curcumstances I think foretell a Broyle Neer att hand in that quarter [ ] your honer has had beter Intileg[ence of] those Maters where you have been.-
Doctor Lavine presents his Complement[s to your] Honer I had allmost Cured. him of his [ ] with Eating Nothing Butt homany [ ] Drinking the Broath Butt a Love Fitt [has] Thrown him Into a Relipss & am Now [ ] Cartian Nothing Butt a ground Swe[at will] Cure him as Soon as I am able to Croyle [out] of this Hutt I will Do myself ye. plesh[ure of] Wateing on you, and am with Great [ ]
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your Honors Most o[ ] |
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GEO: CRO[GHAN] |
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A Son of Sinica Georges has
been Killd. by a White Man
Near Weoman-
To the Honble. SIR WILLIAM JOHNSON Barrt.
FROM ALLAN GRANT
A. L. S.
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[Ontario, Aug. 8, 1769] |
[ ] [ ] as
possible [ ] [ ]h as all the Indians have don that same
in [ ] their meeting their Friends on the way [ ]
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