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amply supported by less questionable evidence. This account seems to 

 have been committed to paper by Maxwell himself, as the style is very 

 rude and illiterate. 



The remaining manuscripts consulted with reference to the siege of 

 Detroit have been obtained from the State Paper Office of London, and 

 from a few private autograph collections. Some additional information 

 has been derived from the columns of the New York Mercury, and the 

 Pennsylvania Gazette for 1768, where various letters written by officers 

 at Detroit are published. 



2. The Massacre of Miceiillimackinac. (Chap. XVII.) 



The following letter may be regarded with interest, as having been 

 written by the commander of the unfortunate garrison a few days after 

 the massacre. A copy of the original was procured from the State 

 Paper Office of London. 



Michillimackinac, 12 June, 1763. 

 Sir: 



Notwithstanding that I wrote you in my last, that all the savages were 

 arrived, and that every thing seemed in perfect tranquillity, yet, on the 

 2d instant, the Chippewas, who live in a plain near this fort, assembled 

 to play ball, as they had done almost every day since their arrival. They 

 played from morning till noon ; then throwing their ball close to the gate, 

 and observing Lieut. Lesley and me a few paces out of it, they came 

 behind us, seized and carried us into the woods. 



In the mean time the rest rushed into the Fort, where they found 

 their squaws, whom tliey had previously planted there, with their hatchets 

 hid under their blankets, which they took, and in an instant killed Lieut. 

 Jamet and fifteen rank and file, and a trader named Tracy. They 

 wounded two, and took the rest of the garrison prisoners, five [seven, 

 Henry] of whom they have since killed. 



They made prisoners all the English Traders, and robbed them of 

 every thing they had ; but they oflered no violence to the persons or 

 property of any of the Frenchmen. 



When that massacre was over, Messrs. Langlade and Farli, the Inter- 

 preter, came down to the place where Lieut. Lesley and me were 

 prisoners ; and on their giving themselves as security to return us when 

 demanded, they obtained leave for us to go to the Fort, under a guard of 

 savages, which gave time, by the assistance of the gentlemen above-men- 

 tioned, to send for the Outaways, who came down on the first notice, and 

 were very much displeased at what the Chippeways had done. 



Since the arrival of the Outaways they have done every thing in their 

 power to serve us, and with what prisoners the Chippeways had given 

 them, and what they have bought, I have now with me Lieut. Lesley 

 and eleven privates ; and the other four of the Garrison, who are yet 

 living, remain in the hands of the Chippeways. 



