THE OHIO VALLEY-GREAT LAKES ETHNOHISTORY
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Patrick Henry
to Clark
(Williamsburgh, Jan. 15, 1778)
Henry, Patrick in: Draper MSS.,
48J17 L. S. and in Illinois
Hist. Coll., 8, G. R. C.,
Virginia Series 3,
p. 38.
p. 38.
Subjects of this Commonwealth; and for this we think You may safely confide in the Justice & Generosity of the Virginia Assembly.
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TO GEORGE ROGERS CLARK Esq
PATRICK HENRY TO CLARK, January 15, 1778.
[Draper MSS., 48J17.- L. S.]
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WMSBURGH Jan. 15th 1778 |
SIR
Colo David Rogers is to go to New Orleans on the Business of Trade I mention'd to you, & I have opened the secret Nature of your Expedition to him as it was necessary for his safety.1 I wish I had known of his being acquainted with all the places we are going to. He is intimately acquainted in all the Country having been often times through every place there & can give you valuable Intelligence & Advice. I wish you to avail yourself of his Counsel & proceed as you find the Interest of your Country directs when you get to the place you are going to. What I have in View is that your Operations should not be confin'd to the Fort & the Settlement at the place mention'd in your secret Instructions, but that you proceed to the Enemy's Settlements above or across, as you may find it proper.
Colo Rogers will be in Danger as he
comes up the River Homewards unless he can fall in with your party & return
with them.
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1 Colonel David Rogers, accompanied by twenty-eight men, was sent to New Orleans with special dispatches to the Spanish governor. He was ordered to bring to Fort Pitt goods which it was expected would be assigned to Virginia by Governor Galvez. Two boat-loads of goods were secured. At the Falls of the Ohio, Colonel Rogers received a re-enforcement of men sent by Clark. Upon reaching a point a little above the mouth of the Licking they were attacked, October 4, 1779, by a large force of Indians. Thirteen men only, of the seventy in the company, escaped. (See Memoir, post, 302. For a complete account, see Butler, Hist. of Kentucky, 102 et seq.) Colonel Rogers was born in Ireland. He came as a youth to America and settled at Oldtown, Md., where he became a merchant. In 1775, he founded a settlement on the Ohio, five miles above Wheeling. He was a member of the Virginia legislature in 1776, was re-elected the following year, and was appointed county-lieutenant of Ohio County in 1777.
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