180 ANGER OF THE INDIANS. [1760-1763. 



injunctions, flinging away flint and steel, and mak- 

 ing copious use of emetics, with other observances 

 equally troublesome, yet the requisition to abandon 

 the use of fire-arms was too inconvenient to be 

 complied with.^ 



With so many causes to irritate their restless and 

 warlike spirit, it could not be supposed that the 

 Indians would long remain quiet. Accordingly, in 

 the summer of the year 1761, Captain Campbell, 

 then commanding at Detroit, received information 

 that a deputation of Senecas had come to the 

 neighboring village of the Wyandots for the pur- 

 pose of instigating the latter to destroy him and 

 his garrison.^ On farther inquiry, the plot proved 



1 WCuUough's Narrative, See Incidents of Border Life, 98. M'Cul- 

 lough was a prisoner among the Delawares, at the time of the prophet's 

 appearance. 



2 MS. Minutes of a Council held by Deputies of the Six Nations, with the 

 Wyandots, Ottaivas, Ojibivas, and Pottawattamies, at the Wyandot town, near 

 Detroit, July 3, 1761. 



Extract from a MS. Letter — Captain Campbell, commanding at Detroit, 

 to Major Walters, commanding at Niagara. 



\ "Detroit, June 17th. 1761, 

 ( two o'clock in the morning. 

 ^'Sir: 



" I had the favor of Yours, with General Amherst's Dispatches. 



" I have sent You an Express with a very Important piece of Intelli- 

 gence I have had the good fortune to Discover. I have been Lately 

 alarmed with Reports of the bad Designs of the Indian Nations against 

 this place and the English in General ; I can now Inform You for certain 

 it Comes from the Six Nations ; and that they have Sent Belts of Wam- 

 pum & Deputys to all the Nations, from Nova Scotia to the lUinois, to take 

 up the hatchet against the English, and have employed the Messagues to 

 send Belts of Wampum to the Northern Nations. . . . 



" Their project is as follows : the Six Nations — at least the Senecas 

 — are to Assemble at the head of French Creek, within five and twenty 

 Leagues of Presqu' Isle, part of the Six Nations, the Delawares and 

 Shanese, are to Assemble on the Ohio, and all at the same time, about the 

 latter End of this Month, to surprise Niagara & Fort Pitt, and Cut off the 

 Communication Every where ; I hope this will Come time Enough to put 



