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Letter to Haldimand
(Johnson Hall, Oct. 29, 1773)
Johnson, Sir William in: The
Papers of Sir William
Johnson, vol. 8,
pp. 913-914.
p. 913.
TO FREDERICK HALDIMAND
A. L. S.1
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Johnson Hall Octbr. 29th, 1773 |
DEAR SIR
I am favored with yours accompanying the Warrant for the Amount of my last Accts. for which I am oblidged to You, as also for the Hint you gave me concerning Kennedy. He is a man I never See before, neither shall I employ him; Maisonville I employ, & think I can Confide in him, having tryed him some years, & have had a general good character of him from Officers & others to the Westward.
I have received an Acct. that the Cheifs of the 6 Nations are on their way down about the late Murder on Lake Ontario. It is a perplexing business because their Ideas respecting punishments are so different from ours, at the same time that it is a Duty we owe to the Crown & to the Public to insist on the Satisfaction required by our Laws. You will hear farther from me upon this after their Arrival;
Your Indulgence to Capt. McLeod on my Application is extremely oblidging, He is verry thankfull for it, & I trust that it may not be attended with inconvenience to the Service.
I am glad to hear of the Safe arrival & encrease of Genrl. Gages Family in England, and I am Always with great truth & regard,
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Dear Sir, |
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W. JOHNSON |
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P. S. After finishing the foregoing, I received a letter from Major Basset
with an answer from ye. Poutawatamies of St. Joseph to a
Speech sent by me to them last Spring, in wch. the
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1 In British Museum. Additional Manuscripts 21670. fo. 93, London, England.
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