THE OHIO VALLEY-GREAT LAKES ETHNOHISTORY
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Carleton to Hamilton
(Quebec, Feb. 2, 1777)
Carleton, Guy in: Haldimand
Papers, B121, p. 6 and in
Michigan Historical
Collections, vol. 9,
pp. 345-346.
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Quebec, 2d February, 1777. |
Lt Gov Hamilton
I am persuaded you will exert your best endeavors from the King's service, to your own prudence and judgment, at this distance much must be left.
The Legislative Council is met, but the time will not at present admit of any regulations being made for distant or remote situations while the commotions continue, the power of the sword is chiefly and indeed only to be trusted to. The keeping the Indians firm to the King's interest ought to be your first and great object when the troubles are composed, tho' not till then your presence here may be necessary towards putting your settlement into some sort of order, and I shall be glad to see you; in the (page 346) meantime I hope you will think of, and prepare materials for that purpose. One or two points that I wished to mention had very near escaped me. Whenever you hold a council with the savages upon any matter of importance, a copy of the minutes, or at least the substance, ought to be transmitted here, at the same time it is very proper you communicate to the King's servants co-operating with you, whether in the military or Indian departments at the neighboring posts, everything that may affect their particular or the general interests of the State; it is of consequence to the King's service, that one general and uniform Plan of Policy be adopted for the numerous Tribes inhabiting the present extensive Limits of this Province.
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