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Account Acct acquainted America arrived Batteaus Baynton Wharton Belt Boats Cahokia Capt Captain Chartres Chiefs Colonel Colony Commander Commissary contrevents Copy Creek Croghan Delawares Deputies desire Detroit deux encamped Endorsed English Expence Farmar Father ferrures Fort de Chartres Fort Pitt Forts Franklin French Garrison Gen¹ George Croghan give Governor honor humble Servant hundred Illinois Country Indian Affairs informed Inhabitants Island Johnson MSS Kaskaskia Lakes Land Letter Lieut Livres Lord Lord Shelburne Lordships Majesty Majesty's March Miles Mississippi Morning Mouth Navigation Number O'Clock obliged Officers Ohio Orleans party Peace Peltry Pensacola Philadelphia pierre de taille Pitt Pondiac Prairie du Rocher present Province Provisions qu'il received Regiment River Samuel Wharton sent Service settled Settlement Shawanese Shelburne side Sir William Johnson Six Nations Stirling taille garnies take possession Thomas Gage THOS GAGE thro toises Trade Tribes Troops Village Wharton & Morgan York
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Page 234 - America do presume for the present, and until our further pleasure be known, to grant warrants of survey or pass patents for any lands beyond the heads or sources of any of the rivers which fall into the Atlantic Ocean from the west or northwest...
Page 380 - George the Second by the Grace of God of Great Britain France & Ireland King Defender of the Faith &c...
Page 235 - And we do further strictly enjoin and require all persons whatever, who have either wilfully or inadvertently seated themselves upon any lands within the countries above described, or upon any other lands, which, not having been ceded to, or purchased by us, are still reserved to the said Indians as aforesaid, forthwith to remove themselves from such settlements.
Page 213 - I am, with great regard, dear Sir, Your most obedient humble servant, B. FRANKLIN.
Page 193 - In Witness whereof they have hereunto set their Hands & Seals the Day & Year first above written — EDWARD MORTON (seal) Sealed & delivered in the Presence of Us — THOS LAURENCE Junr CORNELIUS BARNES.
Page 73 - I am with great Regard Dear Sir, Your most obedient humble servant THOS GAGE T.
Page 46 - I have settled my peace with you before I came here, and now deliver my pipe to be sent to Sir William Johnson, that he may know I have made peace, and taken the king of England for my father, in presence of all 'the nations now assembled, and whenever any of those nations go to visit him, they may smoke out of it with him in peace.
Page 248 - REASONS FOR ESTABLISHING A BRITISH COLONY AT THE ILLINOIS WITH SOME PROPOSALS FOR CARRYING THE SAME INTO IMMEDIATE EXECUTION.
Page 53 - Country & notwithstanding they are at present convinced, that it was for their own Interest, yet it has not changed the Indians affections to them, they have been bred up together like Children in that Country, & the French have always adopted the Indians customs & manners, treated them civily & supplyed their wants...
Page xvii - His Britannic majesty, on his side, agrees to grant the liberty of the Catholic religion to the inhabitants of Canada ; he will, consequently, give the most precise and most effectual orders, that his new Roman Catholic subjects may profess the worship of their religion, according to the rites of the Romish Church, as far as the laws of Great Britain permit.