Illinois in the Eighteenth Century Kaskaskia And Its Parish Records Old Fort
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" Later, and after the northwest terri- tory had been lost to France and ceded to Great Britain as the fruit of the French colonial war, and after the failure of the Indian confederation under Pontiac to reconquer the same terri- tory. Sir ^Villiam Johnson, having in charge the Indian affairs of the western nations, sent his deputy, George Croghan, to the Illinois to pacify the Indians "to soften their antipathy to the English, to expose the falsehood of the French, to distribute presents, and ...prepare a way for the passage of troops '* who were preceding westward to take possession of Fort Chartes and other military establishments within the ceded territory. Groghan left Fort Pitt on May t7th, 1765, starting down the Ohio in two batteaux, having with him several white persons, and a number of Deleware, Iroquois, and Shawnee Indians, as deputies of tribes inhabiting the upper waters of the Ohio, with whom Croghan had already concluded treaties of reconciliation toward the British. On the evening of the 6th of June, Croghan reached the mouth of the Wabash.
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