THE OHIO VALLEY-GREAT LAKES ETHNOHISTORY
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Letter to Johnson
(New York, Sept. 24, 1771)
Gage, Thomas in: The Papers
of Sir William Johnson,
vol. 8, pp. 277-279.
Goes up I will Show you a Letter as I got from the Honerabele Henry wite Conserning the Lands there and then I whould Be glad for your advice in it how to act farther so Sir I Remane in Haste your most
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To SIR WIM. JOHNSON
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TO THE EARL OF HILLSBOROUGH
In the Johnson Calendar, p. 493, is listed a letter of September 24th to the Earl of Hillsborough, recommending Rev. Charles Inglis's memorial touching the Christianization of Indians and commending Rev. Dr Cooper, Presd't of N. York Colledge (printed in Doc. Hist. N. Y., 2:987-88; Q, 2:572.)
FROM THOMAS GAGE
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DEAR SIR
I conclude that Mr. Croghan has transmitted You Mr: McKee's Report from Sioto; by which You will see there was some Foundation for the Intelligence given by Mohicon John; and that the Plot proceeded from the Quarter the Six Nations suspected, what they told you at their last Meeting seems to agree with Mc. Kee's Discoverys amongst the Western Indians; but they appeared so convinced that it was a Measure approved (page 278) of by the whole Confederacy, that they had Doubts about Thomas King's Messages, or that he was empowered to speak to them in the stile he delivered his Messages; and to know the Truth, proposed sending to the Senacas. The Pouteatamies and Nations of the ouabache pretended, for I believe it only a Gasconade, to set the English and Six Nations at Defiance, but I hear nothing of the Forts the French are reported to be building for their Reception. They made the Usual Complaints of the Quantity of Rum brought by the Traders, I wish most Sincerely that it could be prevented; I will do my utmost When the Commissioners from the Several Provinces meet to regulate the Trade, which I am informed they are to do.
The Pouteatamies did Mischief at the Ilinois in the Spring and the Kikapous killed a White Man and a Negro, and made another White Man Prisoner, about Six Miles from Fort-Chartres, on a Plantation of Baynton and Company, on the 17th of July. The Prisoner, by name Fintey, has contrived to get a Letter by means of the French Traders to the Commanding Officer of the Detroit, who has transmitted it to me. He says it was resolved to burn him, but that he was Saved thro' the Intercession of the French, of whose Goodness to him he speaks highly. He informs also, that the Indians there, are fully bent for War against the English, that they had killed one Englishman and one Negro on the Same Plantation two Months before he was taken, and some of them were then out. It is possible those that were out intended to intercept a couple of Boats, in which were two or three officers, with out her People comeing up the ohio, on some suspicion of the kind, the Boats pushed up very fast, and were informed at the Mingo-Town that a Party of Forty Kikapous went out with Design of intercepting them.
I wrote to you a few Days ago about he best Means we could fall upon to chastize these Tribes and bring them to Reason, and perhaps you would first choose to know the Answers which Thomas King shall bring from the Western and Southern Nations, before you would resolve upon the Measures you Judge (page 279) proper to take. I have given orders to have the Troops at the Ilinois instructed in scouting and wood Fighting, accompanied by the Most Spirited Indians of the Country and always to have the Troops in readiness; but shall proceed no farther till I hear from you, and have fixed every thing with You and if nothing but Chastizement will do, I think then of writing to Mr: Steuart, to see what use can be made of the Cherokees and Chikesaws.
I am with great Regard,
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FROM WILLIAM ANDREWS
In the Johnson Calendar, p. 493, is listed a letter, dated September 28th, from Rev. Wm Andrews, Schenectady, soliciting patronage of a grammar school which he has opened ()printed in Doc. Hist. N. Y., 4:466-67; Q, 4:290.)
TO CHARLES INGLIS
In the Johnson Calendar, p. 494, is listed a letter of September 28th to
Rev. Charles Inglis, discussing a memorial relative to conversion of Indians,
showing why husbandmen and mechanics should be excluded from them and
mentioning Dr Cooper's merits (printed in Doc. Hist. N. Y., 4:465-66;
Q, 4:289-90.)
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1 In Johnson's hand.
2 In Harvard College Library, Cambridge, Mass.
3 In Johnson's hand.
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