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Letter to Johnson
(New York, April 7, 1772)
Gage, Thomas in: The Papers
of Sir William Johnson,
vol. 8, p. 441.
p. 441.
TO THE EARL OF HILLSBOROUGH
In Doc. rel. to Col. Hist. N. Y., 8:290-93, and Doc. Hist. N. Y., 2:989-93; Q, 2:573-75, is a letter of April 4th to the Earl of Hillsborough, conveying the news of the death of Thomas King, Indian chief, at Charles Town, S. C., with an account of King's mission to the western and the southern tribes, and describing fallacious pretensions of the Shawanese, the behavior of a lawless French colony on the Waubache, and the failure of trade regulation by the colonies.
FROM THOMAS GAGE
Contemporary Copy1
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DEAR SIR
Your Favor of 20th: Ultmo: arrived in good time for my transmitting the Kings Orders to the Ilinois, for the removal of the Settlers upon the Ouabache, and a Speech for the Indians is sent with the Order; which has been composed, from the Paragraph of your Letter upon that Subject. I inclose you a Copy of it, which it may be proper to have communicated to your Deputy, as it will be delivered the Indians in your Name and Mine, by the Interpreter or some proper Person at the Ilinois. The Commanding Officer has Directions to that Purpose, and that the Speech is delivered in the Form and Ceremony usually observed on such Occasions. You will be the best Judge whether it should be communicated to other Nations.
A French Proclamation is made out for the Settlers in their own Stile, but you may be right in your Conjectures of the little Effect to be hoped from it.
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SIR WM: JOHNSON BART:
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1 In William L. Clements Library, Ann Arbor, Mich.
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