6 FRONTIER FORTS AND SETTLEMENTS. [1763, Mat. 



Alleghany, had totally abandoned then* cabins, as if 

 bent on some plan of mischief. On the next day, 

 two soldiers were shot within a mile of the fort. 

 An express was hastily sent to Venango, to warn 

 the little garrison of danger ; but he returned 

 almost immediately, having been twice fired at, and 

 severely wounded.^ A trader named Calhoun now 

 came in from the Indian village of Tuscaroras, with 

 intelligence of a yet more startling kind. At eleven 

 o'clock on the night of the twenty-seventh, a chief 

 named Shingas, with several of the principal war- 

 riors in the place, had come to Calhoun's cabin, and 

 earnestly begged him to depart, declaring that they 

 did not wish to see him killed before their eyes. 

 The Ottawas and Ojibwas, they said, had taken up 

 the hatchet, and captured Detroit, Sandusky, and 



1 MS. Letter — Bouquet to Amherst, June 5. 



Extract from a letter — Fo/f Pitt, May 31 {Penn. Gaz. No. 1798). 



" We have most melancholy Accounts here — The Indians have broke 

 out in several Places, and murdered Colonel Claphara and his Family ; 

 also two of our Soldiers at the Saw-mill, near the Fort, and two Scalps 

 are taken from each man. An Indian has brought a War-Belt to Tus- 

 carora, and says Detroit is invested ; and that St. Dusky is cut off, and 

 Ensign Pawley made Prisoner — Levy's Goods are stopt at Tuscarora by 

 the Indians — Last Night Eleven men were attacked at Beaver Creek, 

 eight or nine of whom, it is said, were killed — And Twenty-five of Mac- 

 rae's and Alison's Horses, loaded with Skins, are all taken." 



Extract from a MS. Letter — Ecuyer to Bouquet. 



" Fort Pitt, 29th May, 1763. 



" Just as I had finished my Letter, Three men came in from Clap- 

 ham's, with the Melancholy News, that Yesterday, at three O'clock in the 

 Afternoon, the Indians Murdered Clapham, and Every Body in his 

 House : These three men were out at work, & Escaped through the 

 Woods. I Immediately Armed them, and sent them to Assist our People 

 at Bushy Run. The Indians have told Byerly (at Bushy Run) to Leave 

 his Place in Four Days, or he and his Family would all be murdered : I 

 am Uneasy for the Uttle Posts — As for this, I will answer for it." 



The above is a contemporary translation. The original, which is 

 before me, is in French, like all Ecuyer's letters to Bouquet. 



