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George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 5, 13th edition., Chapter 7: (search)
were very much enraged against the English, Speech of the Miami chief, 30 March, 1763. joined with the Delawares and Shawnees, and for two years Speech of Pontiac. Harangne faite à la Nation Illinoise, èt an chef Pondiak, &c. &c. 18 Avril, 1765. Aubry to the French minister, 16 May, 1765. Gayarre Histoire de la Louisianerepeated, a contemptible figure. The mischief would recoil on themselves, and end in their destruction. Letter of Amherst to Major Gladwin, May, 1763. But Pontiac, the colossal chief of the North West, the king and lord of all that country; Rogers: Account of North America. a Catawba William Smith to H. Gates, 22 Novethe nations who have so unjustly and cruelly committed depredations. * * I have thought proper to promise a reward of one hundred pounds to the man who shall kill Pontiac, the chief of the Ottawas—a cowardly villain, &c. &c. Signed Jeff. Amherst. Had this spirit prevailed, the war would have for ever continued in an endless ser
George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 5, 13th edition., Chapter 9: (search)
re he arrived on the last day of October, he bore a letter of the nature of a proclamation, informing the inhabitants of the cession of Canada to England; another, addressed to twenty-five nations by name, to all the Red Men, and particularly to Pontiac, chief of the Ottawas; a third to the commander, expressing a readiness to surrender to the English all the forts on the Ohio, and east of the Mississippi. The next morning Pontiac sent to Gladwin, that he accepted the peace which his father, tPontiac sent to Gladwin, that he accepted the peace which his father, the French, had sent him, and desired all that had passed chap. IX.} 1763. Oct. might be forgot on both sides. Major-General Gage to Secretary Halifax, 23 Dec. 1763. Friendly words were exchanged, though the formation of a definitive treaty of peace was referred to the Commander-in-Chief. The savages dispersed to their hunting grounds. Nothing could restrain the Americans from peopling the wilderness. To be a freeholder was the ruling passion of the New England man. Marriages were
George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 5, 13th edition., Chapter 18: (search)
nge. But Fraser, who arrived from Pittsburg, brought proofs that the Senecas, the Delawares, and the Shawnees, had made peace with the English. It was not the Illinois who declared war against the English, tile chiefs of the Kaskaskias then said. We took up the hatchet, solicited by our elder brothers, the Delawares, the Senecas, the Shawnees, and the Ottawas. Let them make peace: we ourselves have none to make; we follow as they shall lead. I waged chap. XVIII} 1765 this war, said Pontiac, because, for two years together, the Delawares and Shawnees begged me to take up arms against the English. So I became their ally, and was of their mind; and resisting no longer, he who was in a manner adored by the nations round about, plighted his word for peace, and kept Fraser to Gage, 18 May. it with integrity and humanity. A just curiosity may ask, how many persons of foreign lineage had gathered in the valley of the Illinois since its discovery by the missionaries. Fraser wa