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George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 5, 13th edition., Chapter 7: (search)
win, May, 1763. But Pontiac, the colossal chief of the North West, the king and lord of all that country; Rogers: Account of North America. a Catawba William Smith to H. Gates, 22 November, 1763. Gladwin speaks of the Ottawa Nation as Pontiac's Nation. A less authority than that of Smith might not deserve to be regardedSmith might not deserve to be regarded; but Smith is one of the accurate. prisoner, as is said, adopted into the clan of the Ottawas, and elected their chief; Gladwin to Amherst, 14 May, 1763. respected, and in a manner adored, by all the nations around him; a man of integrity and humanity, Fraser to Gen. Gage, 15 May, 1765. according chap. VII.} 1763. May. toSmith is one of the accurate. prisoner, as is said, adopted into the clan of the Ottawas, and elected their chief; Gladwin to Amherst, 14 May, 1763. respected, and in a manner adored, by all the nations around him; a man of integrity and humanity, Fraser to Gen. Gage, 15 May, 1765. according chap. VII.} 1763. May. to the morals of the wilderness; of a comprehensive mind, fertile in resources, and of an undaunted nature, persevered in the design of recovering the land of the Senecas, and all west of it, by a confederacy of insurgent nations. His name still hovers over the north-west, as the hero who devised and conducted their great but unavai
George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 5, 13th edition., Chapter 19: (search)
ring in that case to chap. XIX.} 1765. Nov. prevent further confusion. The Common Council were a body elected by the people; they were the representatives of the people over against the king's Governor and Council, and the military Viceroy. Colden pleaded his oath, to do his utmost, that every clause of the Act should be observed; he pleaded further the still greater contempt Colden to Maj. James, 6 Nov. into which the government would fall by concession. But the Council, in which William Smith, the historian of New-York, acted a prudent part, Diary of John Adams. as the negotiator between the Lieutenant-Governor, the General, and the people, answered that his power was unequal to the protection of the inhabitants; Minutes of Council. Gage, being appealed to, Colden to Gage, 5 Nov. Gage to Colden, 5 Nov. Gage to Conway, 8 Nov. Colden to Conway, 9 Nov. avowed the belief, that a fire from the fort would be the signal for an insurrection, and the commencement of a civil w