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Letter to Johnson

(New York, Oct. 20, 1773)

Haldimand, Frederick in: The
Papers of Sir William
Johnson, vol. 8,
pp. 905-906.

p. 905.

(page 905)

INDORSED:1

 

 

 

 

Octbr. 16th, 1773
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Mr Van Eps Letter

 

FROM FREDERICK HALDIMAND

Contemporary Copy2

New York October 20th, 1773.

Copy)

DEAR SIR

I have now before me your Several Letters of September 30th and 7th and 15 October yet unanswered, I am glad to find that you joined in Opinion with me, concerning Mr. Murray's Purchase of Lands in the Wabash, and that your ideas on that Subject and Similar Transactions, correspond with my own in our representations to the Secretary of State, I have had an Opportunity to see Maisonville, whose Account has been Satisfactory with respect to Kennedy, I have 'ere now, had unfavorable Accounts of him, he lived on the Mississipi, and is not to be depended upon, this is a hint I thought necessary to give you, to set you on your Guards in case you might be inclined to employ him in any thing.

You will now receive the Warrant for the Amount of the half Years Account of Disbursements to 24th September, which cou'd not be sent by last Post, having received your Letter too late to Answer it that Day.

I wait with impatience to know the resolution of the Senecas, respecting their late Murder on Lake Ontario, I am very certain that you will do all that lays in your Power to obtain a proper
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1 In Johnson's hand.

2 In British Museum. Additional Manuscripts 21670. for. 91. London, England.

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