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Letter to Johnson
(New York, April 29, 1774)
Haldimand, Frederick in: The
Papers of Sir William
Johnson, vol. 8,
pp. 1136-1137.
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SIR WILLIAM JOHNSON'S RECEIPT
The Johnson Calendar, p. 5333, lists a receipt of Sir William Johnson, April 28, 1774, for 11,207 36/56 dollars to Thomas Barrow. Destroyed by fire.
FROM FREDERICK HALDIMAND
Contemporary Copy1
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New York April 29th: 1774. |
SIR
Mr: Hay, as I mentioned it to you formerly is now going to the Illinois to procure a true account of the State of that Country, it's Inhabitants and the Settlement at Poste Vincennes and as some few presents to the Indians may facilitate his Success and procure him a better reception amongst the Wabosh Indians, he may meet with, I wou'd beg of you to give him what you may think conducive to the success of his undertaking, and to point out to him such measures as your knowledge will Suggest you to be proper on such an errand as he is going upon.
I send by him a Proclamation to Detroit and the Illinois, in order to prevent as much as lays in my power the ill effect which the late irregular Proceedings of Mr: Murray2 and others might (page 1137) produce, I beg you will cooperate with me, in acquainting all the Nations of Indians within the meaning of the Royal Proclamation of 7th October 17633 with His Majesty's Gracious intention to prevent any fraudulent purchases from them and not to permit any of His Subjects to go to settle amongst them and to encroach on their hunting grounds which are intended to be reserved to their Sole use and benefit, and I send you herewith a Copy of the Proclamations to make such use as you shall think most advantageous for His Majesty's Service.
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SIR WILLIAM JOHNSON Bart:
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TO FREDERICK HALDIMAND
A. L. S.4
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Johnson Hall April 29th, 1774 |
DEAR SIR
You would have a Copy of the principal
transactions at the Meeting with the Indians by this opertunity, but that a
Con-
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1 In British Museum. Additional Manuscripts 21670. fo. 131, London, England. The signed letter in the Johnson manuscripts in the New York State Library was nearly destroyed by fire.
2 William Murray, representing the Illinois Company, made purchases of the Indians in 1773.
3 (1, p. 1137) Printed in Documents Relating to the Constitutional History of Canada, 1759-1791 (Canadian Archives, 1907). See also Doc. rel. to Col. Hist. N. Y., 7:478-79.
4 (2, p. 1137) In British Museum. Additional Manuscripts 21670. fo. 135, London, England.
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