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June 20th, 1763 AD (search for this): chapter 7
assure you we will take care of, and keep them safe. Intelligence delivered, with a string of wampum, by King Beaver, with Shingas, Weindohela, &c. &c., Delaware chiefs, at Tuskarawa's, 27 May, 1763, 11 o'clock at night. Bouquet to Amherst, 10 June, 1763. Amherst to Secretary of State, 27 June, 1763. The next day Indians massacred and scalped a chap. VII.} 1763. May. whole family, Ecuyer to Bouquet, 29 May, 1753. Letter from Fort Pitt, of 2 June, in Weyman's New-York Gazette, 20 June, 1763. Ecuyer's Message to the chiefs of the Delawares. sparing neither woman nor child, and left behind them a tomahawk, Ecuyer to Bouquet, 30 May, 1763. as their declaration of war. Fort Ligonier was threatened, and the passes to the eastward were so watched, that it was very difficult to keep up any intercourse while the woods resounded with the wild death halloos, Declaration of Daniel Collet, horse driver, 30 May, 1763. which announced successive murders. Near Fort Wayne, just w
1768 AD (search for this): chapter 7
r the surrender of Canada, they were about 2500 in number, there being near 500 that bore arms, and near 300 dwelling houses. or as three or four hundred French families; Journal of George Croghan, 17 August, 1765: The people here consist of three or four hundred French families. Craig's Olden Times, 414. yet an enumeration, in 1764, proved them not numerous, Mante's History of the War in North America, 525. with only men enough to form three companies of lnilitia; Ibid, 515. and in 1768 the official census reported but five hundred and seventy-two souls, State of the Settlement of Detroit, in Gage to Hillsborough, No. 2, of 15 May, 1768: Number of souls, 572; cultivated acres, 514 1/2; corn produced yearly, 9789 French bushels; horned cattle, 600; hogs, 567.—an account which is in harmony with the best traditions. Mss. in my possession, containing the Recollections of Madame Catharine Thibeau; About sixty French families in all, when the English took possession of the
May 30th (search for this): chapter 7
d put his men on their guard; but an Indian woman came to him, saying that the squaw in a cabin, but three hundred yards off, was ill, and wished him to bleed her. He went on the errand of mercy, and two shots that were heard told how he fell. The sergeant following, was taken prisoner; and the soldiers, nine only in number, and left without a commander, capitulated. Account of the Loss of the Post of Miamis, by a soldier of the 60th Regiment, who was one of the garrison. On the thirtieth of May the besieged garrison of chap. VII.} 1763. May. Detroit caught a hope of relief, as they saw a fleet of boats sweeping round the point. They flocked to the bastions to welcome their friends; but the death-cry of the Indians announced that the English party, sent from Niagara to reinforce Detroit, had, two nights previously, just before midnight, been attacked in their camp, on the beach, near the mouth of Detroit River, and utterly defeated, a part turning back to Niagara, the larger
June 24th, 1763 AD (search for this): chapter 7
ve prevailed with six different nations of Indians, that are ready to attack you, to forbear till we came and warned you to go home. They have further agreed to permit you and your people to pass safe to the inhabitants. Therefore, brother, we desire that you may set off to-morrow, as great numbers of Indians are coming here, and after two days we shall not be able to do any thing with them for you. Speech of The Turtle's Heart, a principal warrior of the Delawares, to Capt. Ecuyer, 24 June, 1763, at nine in the morning. The brave commander, in his reply to this second summons, warned the Indians of their danger from three English armies, on their march to the frontier of Virginia, to Fort Pitt and to the north-west. Answer of S. Ecuyer, captain commanding. A schooner, with a reinforcement of sixty men, July. had reached the Detroit in June; at daybreak of the twenty-ninth of July the garrison was surprised Major Gladwin, to Sir J. Amherst, Detroit, 18 August, 1763. by
1765 AD (search for this): chapter 7
tors of this mischief. The Iroquois, especially the Senecas, Sir Jeffery Amherst to Sir William Johnson, New-York, 29 May, 1763. The Senecas seem to have a principal hand. * * * Other tribes enter into plots against their benefactors, &c. &c. who 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 Louisiane, II. 131. The work of Gayarre is one of great merit and authority, built firmly upon trustworthy documents. they had been chap. VII.} 1763. May. soliciting the north-western nations to take up arms. The English mean to make slaves of us, by occupying so many posts in our country, said the lower nations to the upper. Major Gladwin, commanding officer at the Detroit to Sir Jeffery Amherst, Detroit, 20 April,
1764 AD (search for this): chapter 7
VII.} 1763. May. souls, of whom five hundred were men able to bear arms, Rogers: Account of North America, 168. When I took possession of the country, soon after the surrender of Canada, they were about 2500 in number, there being near 500 that bore arms, and near 300 dwelling houses. or as three or four hundred French families; Journal of George Croghan, 17 August, 1765: The people here consist of three or four hundred French families. Craig's Olden Times, 414. yet an enumeration, in 1764, proved them not numerous, Mante's History of the War in North America, 525. with only men enough to form three companies of lnilitia; Ibid, 515. and in 1768 the official census reported but five hundred and seventy-two souls, State of the Settlement of Detroit, in Gage to Hillsborough, No. 2, of 15 May, 1768: Number of souls, 572; cultivated acres, 514 1/2; corn produced yearly, 9789 French bushels; horned cattle, 600; hogs, 567.—an account which is in harmony with the best traditio
May 27th (search for this): chapter 7
hia. Fort Pitt, 29 May, 1763. had already been launched upon the Ohio, to bear the English in triumph to the country of the Illinois. For three or four weeks bands of Mingoes and Delawares had been seen hovering round the place. On the twenty-seventh of May, these bitterest enemies of the English exchanged with English traders three hundred pounds worth of skins for powder and lead, and then suddenly went away, as if to intercept any attempt to descend the river. On the same day, an hour beort Miami, garrisoned also by an ensign and a few soldiers. Those who were on the lakes saw at least the water course which would take them to Niagara. Fort Miami was deep in the forest, out of sight and hearing of civilized man. On the twenty-seventh of May, Holmes, its commander, was informed that the fort at Detroit had been attacked, and put his men on their guard; but an Indian woman came to him, saying that the squaw in a cabin, but three hundred yards off, was ill, and wished him to bl
June 22nd, 1763 AD (search for this): chapter 7
the Alleghanies, the outpost of Fort Pitt. They passed the mountains, and spread death even to Bedford. The unhappy emigrant knew not if to brave danger, or to leave his home and his planted fields, for wretchedness and poverty. Nearly five hundred families, from the frontiers of Maryland and Virginia, fled to Winchester, unable to find so much as a hovel to shelter them from the weather, bare of every comfort, and forced to lie scattered among the woods. Letter from Winchester of 22 June, 1763, in Weyman, 238, 3, 2, of 4 July, 1763. Correspondence of Lieut. Governor Fauquier of Virginia with the Board of Trade. To the horrors of Indian warfare were added new dangers to colonial liberty. In Virginia nearly a thousand volunteers, at the call of the Lieutenant Governor, hastened to Fort Cumberland and to the borders; and the Lieutenant Governor of Maryland was able to offer aid. Amherst to Bouquet, 25 August, 1763. The undecided strife between the proprietaries and the as
June 23rd, 1763 AD (search for this): chapter 7
te, 29 August, 1763, 246, 2, 3. This continued through the last day of July, when they vanished from sight. Bouquet was at that time making his way to relieve Fort Pitt and reinforce Detroit. His little army consisted chiefly of the remains of two regiments of Highlanders, I have therefore ordered the remains of the 42d and 77th regiment, the first consisting of 214 men, including officers, and the latter of 133, officers included, which will march this evening. Amherst to Bouquet, 23 June, 1763. who, having been wasted by the enfeebling service of the West Indies, were now to brave the danger of mountain passes and a slow and painful journey through the wilderness. He moved onwards with but about five hundred men, driving a hundred beeves and twice that number of sheep, with powder, flour, and provisions on pack-horses and in wagons chap. VII.} 1763. July. drawn by oxen. Between Carlisle and Bedford they passed the ruins of mills, deserted cabins, fields waving with the har
1763 AD (search for this): chapter 7
he country which for ages had been chap. VII.} 1763. May. his own. Hutchinson to Richard Jackso ler Decembre, 1763. The Master of chap. VII.} 1763. May. Life himself, said the Pottawatamies, haGen. Gage, 15 May, 1765. according chap. VII.} 1763. May. to the morals of the wilderness; of a coven so high as twenty-five hundred chap. VII.} 1763. May. souls, of whom five hundred were men abl11 July, 1763. of artillery, there chap. VII.} 1763. May. were but two six-pounders, one three-pou boats round the promontory of Mi- chap. VII.} 1763 May. chigan. On the morning of the twenty-fiftth of May the besieged garrison of chap. VII.} 1763. May. Detroit caught a hope of relief, as theythe most exciting sport of the red chap. VII.} 1763. June. men. Each one has a bat curved like a c Pennsylvania brought upon it once chap. VII.} 1763. June. more the censure of the king Secreta to a peaceful rivulet the name of chap. VII.} 1763. July. The Bloody Run, in memory of that day. D[14 more...]
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