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St. Clair to Gov. Penn
(Ligonier, Aug. 25, 1774)
St. Clair, Arthur in: Smith, W. H.,
St. Clair Papers, 1882,
vol. 1., pp. 340-343.
p. 342.
An express arrived a day or two ago from Detroit. Mr. Conolly had applied to the commanding officer at that post to stop the trade with the Shawanese; but this he refuses, both as they have no prospect of war, and that for such a step he must have the orders of the Commander-in-Chief at least. He says all the Indians in that country seem to be peaceably disposed. A letter by the same messenger, from a merchant at Detroit to a merchant at Pittsburgh, give a quite contradictory account of matters; says the Indians in that country will all join the Shawanese; that some of them have come in from the frontiers of Virginia, and have brought scalps; that the general rendezvous is appointed on the Wabash, and that they expect but a very short time to have any intercourse with them, and desires him to write to Simons, at Lancaster, not to send the goods he had ordered.
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