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Letter to Johnson
(New York, Sept. 3, 1770)
Gage, Thomas in: The Papers
of Sir William Johnson,
vol. 7, pp. 871-873.
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I understand by Mr. Campbell's letter of the 9th July That you have been good enough to advance my Brother thirty pounds Sterling, which I could wish it Would ever ly in my Power to merit your Service.
Sir Inclos'd is a Draft for thirty Pounds Sterling on Danl. Campbell Esqr. at Sight and I return you my harty Thanks, for your kindness.
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I am Sir |
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With respect your |
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COLLIN ANDREWS |
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The Honbl
SIR WILLIAM JOHNSON Barrt.
INDORSED:1
Detroit 3d 7br, 1770
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Mr. Collin Andrew's letter
wth. a Draft on Mr. Campbel
for 30 Sterlg
FROM THOMAS GAGE
A. L. S.2
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New york Sept. 3d, 1770. |
DEAR SIR,
I am to thank you for your Letters of the 1st and 22d: of August, with the Proceedings at your late Congress; which I am (page 872) sincerely glad has been finished so much to your Satisfaction. I have not yet had time to peruse the Proceedings, but hope the Calling the Nations of the ouabache to a Serious Account, may bring them to their Senses without the Necessity of Spilling Blood; and think it might be usefull were they made Sensible that the lenient Measures hitherto pursued in their respect is entirely owing to your Management. They accuse us of setting Some Nations upon them by whom they have been Struck, and when they see the Danger they have escaped thro' our Means, they may be better disposed towards us, and behave better than they have lately done, for you will remember the Attacks upon our Traders, and plundering their Stores at Post Vincent.
Three white Men have been killed Some Leagues above Fort Chartres in the House of one Hanson a Trader. My Letter does not mention of what Nation the Indian were, who committed the Murhter, they were Suspected to belong to the ouabache, but other Accounts Say, they were of a Nation near Lake Michigan, no doubt the Pouteatamies, who every year have done Mischief at the Illinois; and have committed Such repeated Murthers in different Places as to deserve a Serious Talk and to be brought to a strict Account for their Actions: which I am to beg you to take into Consideration.
Mr Croghan has informed me of the Disorders on the Frontiers near Fort-Pitt, and I must confess I am as much at a Loss as Matters stand, to fall upon any Means to restrain the Licentiousness of the Frontier People, as to check the violence and Brutality of a drunken Indian. I understand the Disturbances took their Rise from Rum.
Mr. Croghan informs me he has
drawn on me for a Sum of Money expended at Fort-Pitt, which is not as Indian
affairs now Situated, in my Power to defray and I have desired him to transmit
his Account to you to be inserted in the Expences of your Department.
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1 In Johnson's hand.
2 In Harvard College Library, Cambridge, Mass.
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