APPENDICES 



APPENDIX A TO CHAPTER III 



(Haldimand MSS. Series B, Vol, 123, p. 302.) 



SIR, 



My Letter of the 22nd & 23rd of July informed 

 you of the reports brought us of the Enemy's mo- 

 tions at that time which was delivered by the Chiefs 

 of the standing Stone Village & confirmed by Belts 

 & Strings of Wampum in so earnest a manner that 

 could not but gain Credit with us. We had upon 

 this occasion the greatest Body of Indians collected 

 to an advantageous peice of ground near the Pica- 

 wee Village that have been assembled in this Quar- 

 ter since the commencement of the War & perhaps 

 may never be in higher spirits to engage the En- 

 emy, when the return of Scouts from the Ohio in- 

 formed us that the account we had received was 

 false; this disappointment notwithstanding all our 

 endeavours to keep them together occasioned them 

 to disperse in disgust with each other, the inhabi- 

 tants of this Country who were the most immedi- 

 ately interested in keeping in. a Body ware the first 

 that broke off & though we advanced towards the 

 Ohio with upwards of three hundred Hurons & Lake 

 Indians few of the Delawares, Shawanese or Min- 

 goes followed us. On our arrival at the Ohio we 

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