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Canada (Canada) (search for this): chapter 4
otives of economy, refused to ratify the treaty which Croghan had negotiated at Picqua, while the proprietaries Thomas Penn to Governor Hamilton, 25 February, 1751. of that province openly denied their liability to contribute to Indian or any other expenses; Hamilton's Message to the Pennsylvania Assembly, 21 August, 1751, in Hazard, IV. 235. and sought to cast the burden of a Western fort on the equally reluctant people of Virginia. New York could but remonstrate with the governor of Canada. Clinton to La Jonquiere, 12 June, 1751. The deputies of the Six Nations were the first to manifest zeal. At the appointed time in July, they came down to Albany to renew their covenant chain; and to chide the inaction of the English, which was certain to leave the wilderness to France. When the congress, which Clinton had invited to meet the Iroquois, assembled at Albany, South Carolina came also, Drayton's South Carolina, 94 and 239. Clinton to Bedford, 17 July, 1751, in New
Hamilton, Georgia (Georgia, United States) (search for this): chapter 4
ss of these changes, the colonies were left to plan their own protection. But every body shunned the charge of securing the valley of the Ohio. Of the Virginia Company the means were limited. The Assembly of Pennsylvania, from motives of economy, refused to ratify the treaty which Croghan had negotiated at Picqua, while the proprietaries Thomas Penn to Governor Hamilton, 25 February, 1751. of that province openly denied their liability to contribute to Indian or any other expenses; Hamilton's Message to the Pennsylvania Assembly, 21 August, 1751, in Hazard, IV. 235. and sought to cast the burden of a Western fort on the equally reluctant people of Virginia. New York could but remonstrate with the governor of Canada. Clinton to La Jonquiere, 12 June, 1751. The deputies of the Six Nations were the first to manifest zeal. At the appointed time in July, they came down to Albany to renew their covenant chain; and to chide the inaction of the English, which was certain to l
Gibraltar (Pennsylvania, United States) (search for this): chapter 4
ive maritime system against England; Flassan: Hist. de la Diplomatic Fran aise, VI. 15. and Rouille, the minister of the marine department, loved war and prepared for it. Spain wisely kept aloof. By antipathy, said the Marquis of Ensenada, the considerate minister of Ferdinand the Sixth, and from interest also, the French and English will be enemies, for they are rivals for universal commerce; and he urged on his sovereign seasonable preparations, that he might, by neutrality, recover Gibraltar, and become the arbiter of the civilized world. De la Ensenada's Report, presented to Ferdinand VI. in 1751. See Coxe et Muriel: Espagne sous les Rois de la Maison de Bourbon, IV. 294. Every thing seemed to portend a conflict between England and France along their respective frontiers in America. To be prepared for it, Clinton's advisers recommended to secure the dominion of Lake Ontario chap. IV.} 1751. by an armed sloop and by forts upon its shore. But, it was asked, how is
Niagara County (New York, United States) (search for this): chapter 4
their traders were to undersell the British; in the summer of 1751, they launched an armed vessel of unusual size on Lake Ontario, Memorial on Indian Affairs in Clinton to Lords of Trade, 1 October, 1751. and converted their trading-house at Niagara into a fortress; Clinton to De la Jonquiere, 12 June, 1751. De la Jonquiere to Clinton, 10 August. Alexander's Remarks on the Letters, sent to Dr. Mitchell. they warned the governor of Pennsylvania, La Jonquiere to Governor Hamilton, of a. The permission to build a fort at the junction of the two rivers that form the Ohio, was due to the alarm awakened by the annually increasing power of France, which already ruled Lake Ontario with armed vessels, held Lake Erie by a fort at Niagara, and would suffer no Western tribe to form alliances but with themselves. The English were to be excluded from the valley of the Miamis; and in pursuance of that resolve, on the morning of the summer solstice, two Frenchmen, with two hundred an
Onondaga, N. Y. (New York, United States) (search for this): chapter 4
52, her commissioners met chiefs of the Mingoes, Shawnees and Ohio Indians, at Logstown. It was pretended Lieut. Gov. Dinwiddie of Virginia, to Gov. Glen, 23 May, 1753. that chiefs of the Six Nations were present; but at a general meeting at Onondaga, they had resolved that it did not suit their customs to treat of affairs in the woods and weeds. Col. William Johnson to Governor Clinton, 26 March, 1753, in New York Documentary History, II. 624. Plain Facts, 38, 44. We never understood, sf Western Ohio, began the contest that was to scatter death broadcast through the world. All the speeches were delivered again to the deputies of the nations, represented at Logstown, that they might be correctly repeated to the head council at Onondaga. An express messenger from the Miamis hurried across the mountains, bearing to the shrewd and able Dinwiddie, the lieutenant- chap. IV.} 1752. governor of Virginia, a belt of wampum, the scalp of a French Indian, and a feathered pipe, with le
France (France) (search for this): chapter 4
also honestly inclined to maintain peace with France. The governor of that colony Cornwallis to, which was certain to leave the wilderness to France. When the congress, which Clinton had invitgn relations, De Puysieux, who, on the part of France, was responsible for the treaty of Aix-la-Chapwere distracted by the state of relations with France. Along the confines of Nova Scotia, the heall victims to the fury of the Indian allies of France. At the same time, the Ohio Company, with tm awakened by the annually increasing power of France, which already ruled Lake Ontario with armed vley of the beautiful river should be gained by France. Many proposals, too, were made for laying was itself to make the conquest of the West. France was defied and attacked: and no preparation wad each other in repelling all encroachments of France on the undoubted Circular of Holdernesse toaty with the Six Nations. On the relations of France and England with those tribes and their Wester[2 more...]
Massachusetts (Massachusetts, United States) (search for this): chapter 4
nt of the king, continued to emit paper currency, Potter's Rhode Island Currency, 12. and the more freely, because Massachusetts had withdrawn its notes and returned to hard money. J. B. Felt's Massachusetts Currency, 133, 134. In 1742, twentyMassachusetts Currency, 133, 134. In 1742, twenty-eight shillings of Rhode Island currency would have purchased an ounce of silver; seven years afterwards, it required sixty shillings; compared with sterling money, the depreciation was as ten and a half or eleven to one. This was pleaded as the jthe Commons, XXVI. 65, 119, 120, 187, 206, 265. In the dan- chap. IV.} 1751. gerous precedent, Bollan, the agent for Massachusetts, discerned the latent purpose of introducing by degrees the same authority to control other articles. He argued, mor 16, and Clinton to Lords of Trade, same date. for the first time, to join in council with New York, Connecticut, and Massachusetts,—its earliest movement towards confederation. From the Catawbas, also, hereditary foes to the Six Nations, deputies
Fort Bedford (Pennsylvania, United States) (search for this): chapter 4
was still the main-spring in their system. chap. IV.} 1751. With Bedford's approbation, Thos. Penn to Gov. Hamilton, 30 March, 1751. theh the Duke of Newcastle plotted against his colleague, the Duke of Bedford, delayed for the present the decisive interposition of parliament . IV.} 1751. foster the settlement of Nova Scotia at every hazard; Bedford desired to be frugal of the public money, and was also honestly inpers had seconded his entreaties; Halifax and Lords of Trade to Bedford, 16 Jan. and 7 March, 1751. but Bedford was dissatisfied at the vans of Halifax. The intrigue in the cabinet had come to maturity. Bedford's neglect of the forms of office had vexed the king; his independesed from the Admiralty. Admitted in June to an audience at court, Bedford inveighed long and vehemently against his treacherous colleague, ana came also, Drayton's South Carolina, 94 and 239. Clinton to Bedford, 17 July, 1751, in New York London Documents, XXX. 16, and Clinton
Dinwiddie Court House (Virginia, United States) (search for this): chapter 4
letters from the dwellers on the Maumee and on the Wabash. Our good brothers of Virginia, said the former, we must look upon ourselves as lost, if our brothers, the English, do not stand by us and give us arms. Message of the Twightwees to Dinwiddie, 21 June, 1752. Eldest brother, pleaded the Picts and Windaws, this string of wampum assures you, that the French king's servants have spilled our blood, and eaten the flesh of three of our men. Look upon us, and pity us, for we are in great dihiefs have taken up the hatchet of war. We have killed and eaten ten of the French and two of their negroes. We are your brothers; and do not think this is from our mouth only; it is from our very hearts. Message of the Picts and Windaws to Dinwiddie. Thus they solicited protection and revenge. In December, 1752, Dinwiddie made an elaborate report to the Board of Trade, and asked specific instructions to regulate his conduct in resisting the French. The possession of the Ohio valley he
Great Lakes (search for this): chapter 4
mpanied by the rude music from their calabashes, they continued their melodies, while their great chief lighted the peace-pipe. He himself was the first to smoke the sacred calumet; then Hendrick, of the Mohawks; and all the principal sachems in succession. Nor was the council dismissed, till the hatchet was buried irrecoverably deep, and a tree of peace planted, which was to be ever green as the laurel on the Alleghanies, and to spread its branches till its shadow should reach from the Great Lakes to the Gulf of Mexico. Thus was South Carolina first included in the same bright chain with New England. When would they meet in council again? Thus did the Indians, in alliance with England, plight faith fo one another, and propose measures of mutual protection. To anticipate or prevent the consummation of these designs remained the earnest effort of the French. They sent priests, who were excited partly by ambition, partly by fervid enthusiasm, to proselyte the Six Nations; their
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