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Residence of Chingas and Captain Jacobs, where he found one hundred and forty Men chiefly Delawares and Shawonese, who had then with them above one hundred English Prisoners big and little taken from Virginia and Pennsylvania.
That there the Beaver,[1] Brother of Chingas, told him
that the Governor of Fort Duquesne[2] had often offered
the French Hatchet to the Shawonese and Delawares,
who had as often refused it, declaring they would do as
they should be advised by the Six Nations; but that in
April or May last a Party of Six Nation Warriors in
Company with some Caghnawagos[3] and Adirondacks
called at the French Fort in their going to War against the Southern Indians, and on these the Governor of Fort
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- ↑ King Beaver (Tamaque) was head chief of the Delaware Indians on the Ohio, with headquarters at the mouth of Beaver Creek. He was somewhat half-hearted in the English service, but protested his desire to preserve the alliance until after Braddock's defeat, when he openly took the hatchet against the English settlements. Post met him upon the Ohio in 1758, and secured a conditional agreement to remain neutral; but after the English occupation of the Forks of the Ohio, he retreated to the Muskingum, where a town was named for him. He took part in the treaties with the English in 1760 and 1762; but was one of the ring-leaders in the conspiracy of Pontiac (1763). After Bouquet's advance into his territory, he reluctantly made peace, and delivered up his English prisoners. He died about 1770, having in his later years passed under the influence of the Moravian missionaries, and become one of their most eminent disciples.—Ed.
- ↑ Fort Duquesne, built at the Forks of the Ohio in 1754, was first com- manded by Contrecceur; but in the September following the battle of the Monongahela, Captain Dumas, who had distinguished himself at that engagement, was made commandant. He was an officer of great ability, and while he sent out parties against the frontier, his instructions to one subordinate (Donville, captured in 1756) were to use measures "consistent with honor and humanity." Dumas was superseded in 1756 by De Ligneris, who remained in command at Fort Duquesne until ordered to demolish the post, and retire before Forbes's advancing army (1758).—Ed.
- ↑ The Caghnawagos (Caughnawagas) were the Iroquois of the mission village of that name, about six miles above Montreal.—Ed.
