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Letter to Johnson
(Detroit, May 16, 1770)
Bruce, Thomas in: The
Papers of Sir William
Johnson, vol. 7,
pp. 675-676.
are now, more unanimous than I ever knew them & in general very sensible of the notice you have taken of them. As soon as I am furnished with the proper lists of the inhabitants within the district of my Regiment I shall not fail to make the return to the Adjutant-General immediately.
The favorable attention you have been pleased to give to the desires of the people here in general as well as the particular notice you have taken of me & my family merits & deserves my acknowledgements & be assured, Sir, that I shall be happy to manifest the sense I have of those obligation upon every occasion- & am,
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P. S. Quarter-master Hugunine1, Ensigns Thurston2 & Hurd3 are still to be qualified. Two of them were sick when the rest of the officers were qualified & the other was out of the way.
To the Hon. SIR WILLIAM JOHNSON- at Johnson Hall.
FROM THOMAS BRUCE4
A. L. S.5
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SIR
It is with great pleasure that I have the honor of acquainting you that all the Indians in this country have remained in perfect tranquillity all this winter, nor do they at present seem in the least inclin'd to raise any disturbances. Tho' I find it has been (page 676) customary almost every spring to spread about reports of their bad intentions, I have not heard any which seem worth attending to, if any thing should happen, I shall take the first opportunity of informing of it.
I have the honor to be
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your most obedient |
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To
SIR WILLIAM JOHNSON
Baronet
INDORSED:6
Detroit May 16 177
Majr Bruce's letter
TO CHRISTOPHER SERVIS
A. Df. S.
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According to your desire I have taken under Consideration the affair you mentioned to me this Day and in answer thereto, I shall in a few words tell you the result thereof, and that on the most equitable manner I could with any Justice to my Family think of Vizt.- I will give you Two Hundred Pounds in money, and Fifteen Hundred Acres of Land on both Sides of the Adagaghtinge7 Creek, any where between the place where the Germans formerly made Canoes to go to Pensilvania, and that place where John Bartholomew has taken up his Land which must be all together, or in one body, and not in separate places.-
For which you will give me your Right Title & Improvements where you now
live, together with a Crop of Wheat of 40 Skipples Sowing left on the Land, and
the fences in proper order, as well as Houses &ca.
If you approve of this proposal, I will
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1 Abraham Hugunine, second lieutenant in Cornelis Van Schaack's regiment at Kinderhook.
2 Job Thurston.
3 Wallace Hurd.
4 Hon. Thomas Bruce, Lieutenant Colonel, 65th regiment.
5 In Historical Society of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pa.
6 (1, p. 676) In Johnson's hand.
7 (2, p. 676) Charlotte river, a tributary of the Susquehanna.
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