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that alarm that created us so much trouble, she car- 

 ries one six pounder, six four pounders & two two 

 pounders & Row's eighty oars, she had at the big 

 Bone Lick one hundred men but being chiefly 

 draughts from the Militia many of them left her on 

 different parts of the River. One of the Prisoners 

 mentions the arrival of Boats lately from Fort Pitt 

 & that Letters has pass'd between the Commanding 

 officer of that place & Mr. Clark intimating that 

 preparation is making there for another Expedition 

 into the Indian Country, we have since our arrival 

 heard some thing of this matter and that the par- 

 ticulars has been forwarded to you, a Detachment of 

 Rangers with a large party of Delawares, & Shaw- 

 anese are gone that way who will be able to discover 

 the truth of this matter. 



I am this day favored with yours of the 6th Augt. 

 containing the report of Isaac Gians concerning the 

 Cruelties of the Indians. It is true they have made 

 sacrifices to their revenge after the massacre of their 

 women & children some being known to them to be 

 perpetrators of it, but it was done in my absence or 

 before I could reach any of the places to interfere. 

 And I can assure you Sir that there is not a white 

 person here wanting in their duty to represent to 

 the Indians in the strongest terms the highest ab- 

 horrence of such conduct as well as the bad conse- 

 quences that may attend it to both them & us being 

 contrary to the rule of carrying on war by Civilized 

 nations, however it is not improbable that Gians 

 may have exaggerated matters greatly being noto- 



