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Letter to Johnson
(New York, Dec. 11, 1771)
Gage, Thomas in: The Papers
of Sir William Johnson,
vol. 8, pp. 343-344.
p. 343.
FROM THOMAS GAGE
A. L. S.1
|
New York Decbr. 11th 1771 |
DEAR SIR
It gives me much Pleasure to find by your Letter of the 16th: Ulmo: that you are returned safe from the upper Country, and so well satisfied with your Negotiations with the Six Nations. Maisonville can doubtless be of use if he is hearty in our interest, and you have taken the best Method to make him Faithfull; I therefore trust that you will receive usefull and certain Intelligence from him of the Machinations of our Enemys.
I have Intelligence form Fort-Pitt repeating what was sent from Detroit about scalps taken at the Ilinois and the Capture of a white-man, by name Finley, with Information given 26th Septr. by two Wyandots from Sandusky, that eleven villages of the ouabache, Miamies, and Lake Michigan Indians have determined to attack the Troops at the Ilinois in the spring, and that a Party from each of those Villages was already gone to hunt about the Falls of the ohio, in order to be ready to fall upon any Boats going down the River.
In my letters of the 10th: and 24th: of
September last, I wrote upon the hostile Proceedings of most of those Tribes,
and concerning the best Method to chastise them and bring them to Reason, which
I fear Nothing but Chastizement will do. You will oblige me in your opinion
upon what I wrote to you on those Heads, and whether any steps could or ought
to be taken therein till the six Nations are informed of Thomas King's
Negotiations, or of the Proceedings of the Deputys now sent to Scioto.2 It is plain
that something must be done, and if advice nor measures will not have effect,
the sooner Measures are taken to oppose Hostilities the better.
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1 In Historical Society of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pa.
2 See Johnson to Hillsborough, April 4, 1772, in Doc. Rel. to Col. Hist. N. Y., 8:290-91.
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