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I have nothing more to inform you off if any- 

 thing material occurs, which I really expect in a day 

 or two, I will inform you by Express. 



I am &c 



HENRY BIRD. 

 To CAPT. LERNOULT. 



(Copy.) 



Tune 1 2th, UPPER ST. DUSKI. 



SIR, 



Couriers after Couriers arrive with accounts of 

 the Rebels advancing to destroy the Savage Villages 

 now all their corn is planted 



APPENDIX E TO CHAPTER VIII 



(State Department MSS. ; No. 48, Vol. "Memorials &c. In- 

 habitants of Illinois, Kaskaskias and Kentucky.") 



THE Petition and prayr. of the people of that 

 Part of Contry [sic] now Claim'd. by the State of 

 Virginia in the Countys of Kaintuckey and Ilinois 

 Humbly Sheweth That we the leige Subjects of 

 the United States Labour under many Greivences 

 on acount of not being formd. into Seperate State 

 or the Mind and Will of Congress more fully known 

 respecting us And we Humbly beg leave to Pre- 

 sent to the Honorable Continental Congress our 

 Humble Petition seting forth the Grievences and 

 oppressions we labour under and Pray Congress 

 may Consider Such our greivances and grant us 

 redress. 



