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Gayarre (search for this): chapter 7
w-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, 1763. They say we mean to make slaves of them &c. &c. We had better attempt something now, to recover our lib
M. Neyon (search for this): chapter 7
m the Lord of Life; it is I who made all men; I wake for their safety. Therefore, I give you warning, that if you suffer the Englishmen to dwell among you, their diseases and their poisons shall destroy you utterly, and you shall all die. M. de Neyon à M. de Kerlerec, au Fort de Chartres, le ler Decembre, 1763. The Master of chap. VII.} 1763. May. Life himself, said the Pottawatamies, has stirred us, up to this war. The plot was discovered in March by the officer in command at Miami; owards a general pacification proceeded from the French in Illinois. De Neyon, the French officer at Fort Chartres, sent belts and messages, and peace-pipes to all parts of the continent, exhorting the many nations of savages to bury the hatchet, and take the English by the hand, for they would never see him more. Neyon et Bobe à Kerlerec, Dec. 1763. Neyon a Kerlerec, 1 Dec. 1763. Return of the killed, wounded and missing in the action on the carrying-place, at Niagara, 14 Sept. 1763
Jeffery Amherst (search for this): chapter 7
n, commanding officer at the Detroit to Sir Jeffery Amherst, Detroit, 20 April, 1763. They say we ms, and end in their destruction. Letter of Amherst to Major Gladwin, May, 1763. But Pontiac,tawas, and elected their chief; Gladwin to Amherst, 14 May, 1763. respected, and in a manner adoLieut. Governor Hamilton of Pennsylvania to Gen. Amherst, 7 July, 1763. Amherst to Hamilton in reply, 9 July, 1763. Hamilton to Amherst, 11 July. Amherst to Hamilton, 16 July. Lieut. Colonel Roberependence on them, &c. &c. Compare Bouquet to Amherst, 11 August, 1763: Had the Provinces assisted rvation of his post. Col. Bouquet to Sir Jeffery Amherst, 11 August, 1763. The garrison consistearrison was surprised Major Gladwin, to Sir J. Amherst, Detroit, 18 August, 1763. by the appearant disaster could reach New-York, the anger of Amherst against the bloody villains knew no bounds; from me a reward of one hundred pounds; Sir J. Amherst to Major Gladwin, 10 August, 1763: You wil[8 more...]
Etherington (search for this): chapter 7
d gave room for the cabins of a few traders, and a fort with a garrison of about forty Captain Etherington to Major Gladwin, Michilimackinac, 12 June, 1763. Etherington's account, contemporary anEtherington's account, contemporary and official, reports but thirty-five privates. souls. Savages had arrived near it, as if to trade and beg for presents. From day to day, the Chippewas, who dwelt in a plain near the fort, assembled to play ball. On the second day of June, Yet, on the second instant—Capt. Etherington.—Henry's Travels and Adventures in Canada and the Indian Territories, between the years 1760 and 1776. The autnk it better to stoop to truth, and follow the authentic contemporary account. The letter of Etherington, as published in Parkman's Pontiac War, 596, reads, Yet, on the 4th instant. they again engag unceasing passionate pursuit. On that day the squaws entered the fort, and remained there. Etherington, the commander, with one of his lieutenants, stood outside of the gate watching the game, fea
Signed Jefferson Amherst (search for this): chapter 7
your hands of the 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 series of alternate murders, in which the more experienced Indian excelled the white man. The Senecas, against whom Amherst had specially directed unsparinAmherst had specially directed unsparing hostilities, lay in ambush for one of his convoys about three miles be- chap VII.} 1763 Sept. low Niagara Falls; and on its return down the carrying-place, fell upon it with such suddenness and vigor that but eight wounded men escaped with their lives, while seventy-two were victims to the scalping-knife. The first effective measures towards a general pacification proceeded from the French in Illinois. De Neyon, the French officer at Fort Chartres, sent belts and messages, and peace-pipes
Daniel Collet (search for this): chapter 7
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 where the great canal which unites the waters of Lake Erie and the Wabash leaves the waters of the Maumee, stood Fort 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
George Croghan (search for this): chapter 7
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 nuer, was a large stockade, about twenty-feet high and twelve hundred yards in circumference, Rogers: Concise Account, 168. inclosing, perhaps, eighty houses. Croghan's Jour. in Craig, i. 414. It stood within the limits of the present city, on the river bank, commanding a wide prospect for nine miles above and below. CroghaCroghan's Jour. in Craig, i. 414.> The garrison was composed of the shattered remains of the eightieth regiment, Mante's History, 485. reduced to about one hundred and twenty men and eight officers. Cass: Discourse before the Michigan Historical Society, from an ancient Diary. Carver, 155, says, 300. Two armed vessels lay in the r
M. Kerlerec (search for this): chapter 7
ife; it is I who made all men; I wake for their safety. Therefore, I give you warning, that if you suffer the Englishmen to dwell among you, their diseases and their poisons shall destroy you utterly, and you shall all die. M. de Neyon à M. de Kerlerec, au Fort de Chartres, le ler Decembre, 1763. The Master of chap. VII.} 1763. May. Life himself, said the Pottawatamies, has stirred us, up to this war. The plot was discovered in March by the officer in command at Miami; Ensign Holmestowards a general pacification proceeded from the French in Illinois. De Neyon, the French officer at Fort Chartres, sent belts and messages, and peace-pipes to all parts of the continent, exhorting the many nations of savages to bury the hatchet, and take the English by the hand, for they would never see him more. Neyon et Bobe à Kerlerec, Dec. 1763. Neyon a Kerlerec, 1 Dec. 1763. Return of the killed, wounded and missing in the action on the carrying-place, at Niagara, 14 Sept. 1763
Winchester (search for this): chapter 7
western foot of 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 propriet
Bouquet (search for this): chapter 7
and left behind them a tomahawk, Ecuyer to Bouquet, 30 May, 1763. as their declaration of war. FMaryland was able to offer aid. Amherst to Bouquet, 25 August, 1763. The undecided strife betweeo sort of dependence on them, &c. &c. Compare Bouquet to Amherst, 11 August, 1763: Had the Province hundred and thirty men, Capt. Ecuyer to Col. Bouquet 26 June, 1763. officers and all included, a two hundred women and children. Ecuyer to Bouquet, 26 June, 1763. On the twenty-first of June, mself was struck on the leg by an arrow. Col. Bouquet to Amherst, 11 August, 1763. Weyman's New-ay of July, when they vanished from sight. Bouquet was at that time making his way to relieve Foto return. Leaving the wagons at Ligonier, Bouquet, on the fourth of August, proceeded with the d the excellent conduct of the officers. Col. Bouquet to Sir Jeffery Amherst: Camp at Edge Hill, were utterly routed and put to flight. But Bouquet in the two actions lost, in killed and wounde[14 more...]
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