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GEORGIA “GAZETTE. mu urn 1 n ms 1■ ■ . _ Number 28. AMERICA. New-York, Augurt 15. • iuofy of a letter from a gentleman at fort <V £t re: t, (situate about ohj third of C; way in the river Lai leads from the <weji end of Lie E it to lake Huron, in the Tiinghfebruntit country ) dated July gib, 1763; being a more particular account a fans t Lit Live happened at that place before and after tie ‘Uuejlge by fb% Indians, than any yet pubhjhcd, vix. S 1 R * ‘A the 2d of May, Sir Robert Davers, Capt. Robin son set out from hence L barge, * n order to found the q rclwinnel from this place to lake Huron, |p&y| - t 0 ict >{ was possible to get one of the veifeli into that lake; they requefled of ‘ X^ C t 0 * et g°*l° n g with t^em fee the lake, that as he was a young man, he would have a gotf opportunity of making uJct'ufremarks along with then.! to which I readily con sented, and looked upm him being very happy m such good company; but alas he has been so unhappy as to fall into the hands of the lavages, as you will fee by his letter to me of 18th May* which you have here inclofed : I wrote to a Frenchman of my acquaintance in the country, to . endeavour to purchale him from the Indians, for which purpose I conveyed to him privately, ami gave him orders to receive alio from my corrcfpondcnts in the goods to the amount of eighty pounds; he accordingly jnade the purchase of him from his mailer, who is a Sotaau, or Sagan an Indian, who would not part with him but on condition, that the Frenchman Ihould not fuffer him, to come into the fort before the liege was over, which I agreed to, rather than fuffer him to remain in their hands, as they, are committing the molt cruel and horrid barbarities every* day, in murdering their prisoners in the molt barbarous manner they can invent: He was but one day.and night inthepofl'cflionof the Frenchman, before Pondiac (an tawa, commander in chief of all the nations engaged, inr the war) sent a band of fifty Indians, and took him away by forte; faying, * That no nation Ihould have liberty to fell their prisoners before the war was over/ He is re turned fincc to his former malter the Saganan Indnn, who still uses him very k-ndly, and took him yesterday to Ice the Frenchman he had fold him to, And promised nun, that he would not fuller him by any means to be killed, tor he loved him as his own child. May the 7th, The Ottawas, and fome of the Chippawas, to the number of 300 men, came to the fort, and held a treaty with Major Gladwin, who had information the evening before, that the Indians were determined to fait upon and murder the officers in council, while they ve.e to have parties at the different merchants houses to treat thein in the fame manner, and then make themfelvcs mailers 01 the garrison, by rulhing into the guard-house, barrack:, fee. and seizing the arms: The Major would not refu < them admittance, that they might fee he was not afraid of them, but took proper precaution neverthelefr, to nave the whole garrison under arms: The merchants Ihut up all their houses, and aflembled, with all their servants, at nine, .. well armed. The Indians entered about ten o clock, and made their dispositions according to the prooofed plan. Pondiac (as we are informed since) had in his pouch a certain belt of wampum, which he was to have produced as a signal to begin the malTacre; but he, naturally a, co*w ard, feeing the garrison under arms, dared not to produce it, feigning furt rizc at our being under arms, and pietendod ignorance of the caufc: the council ended, they retired seem ingly much difconccrtcd, and encamped on the fartlicr h v T H R S D A TANARUS„;, ‘October i 3 1763, * * of the river: The young warriors reproached Pondiac for not producing the lignaT, faying, ‘ That they could have earned it with the Tpfs of only a few men/ to which he anfwercd, * He did not imagine they would be contented * to lose any men, but, if they W willing, they Ihould * !i? Ve j * opportunity to llnke, whether the garrifoa 1 mould be under arms or not ;* to which they all a ,iecd: In confequcnce of which, Pondiac, with fome others of the chiefs, came the next day, being fun day, to fmcak the pipe of pcaec with Che Major, who despised them so much, because of their treachery, that he would not go nigh them* but told Capt. Campbell, if he had a mind he migiit speak with thein; on which Capt. Campbell went, and fmoaked with thdin, when Pondiac told him, * He would come the * next day and hold a conference with the Major; and to ’ wipe away all caufc of suspicion, he would bring all his * old and young men to take him by the hand in a friendly 4 manner:* After repeating fevcral pieces of such duff, ha withdrew with his gang to his camp; next morning about eight o’clock we counted 64. canoes, all full of Indiam*, eroding the river above the fort. Soon after they landed, a few of them came to the fort, and demanded permilGou for the whole to be admitted into council, which the Major abfdlutely refufed, telling them that it was not bccaufe he was afraid of them, for he had already given them a fuftU cient instance of the contrary, but it was not curtoraary to admit so many into council; however they might faring 40 or 50 of their chief), which he looked upon* as a- futfiuenc number for that purpose; they immediately rctiicd to the others, who were lying all round the fort, at the dillanco of about 200 yards, to whom, when they had communi cated what the Major had (aid unto them, they all got up and fled off, yelping like as many devils; they inltarttly fell upon Mrs. Turnbull (an Engtifli woman, to whom Major Gladwin had given a final I plantation abiut a mile from the fort)- and murdered and fcalpjed her and her tw<* foos; from thence they went to flogs Island, about a.leaguo un the river from the fort, and there murdered James Filher and his wife, also four soldiers who were with them, and carried off his children and servant maid prisoners; the fame evening, being the 9th, had an account by a french man, of the defeat of Sir Rcbrrt Davers, and Captain Robertson. The 10th in the morning, they attacked the fort very resolutely; there continued a very hot fire on both fide* until the evening, when they ceaftd firing, having had fe vcral killed and wounded; they ported thcmlHve* behind the garden fences and houses in the suburbs, and fome barns and out-houses that were on the fide of the fort next the woods, to which wc immediately set fire by red hot spikes, ice. from the cannon, which dirti dged them. Wednesday the 1 ith, fome of the French advised to try to come to terras of peace with the Indians, which was thought advisable, as we had then but three weeks provision for the garrison, at a pound of bread and two ounces of pork a man per day ; they went accordingly and acquainted the Indians ofwhut'thcv had advised to; in conlequ ncc,crt which, five of the Indians came to the fort, and demaadf.,l that two of our olliccrs Ihould go out and hold a treaty with them in their camp, and that Captaiiv Campbell ihould one of them, to which he readily agreed, and the mote ft;, as the French who had advised to the *ccoininod*ing of matters, told him thete was no rifle in going out, that they would go along with him; that they would anlwer life for life, bvidy for bedv, that he Ihould return fnfc inw tfic.fjri,; the Major did not'feem to like the feheme, for which rcufop he would not order him out, but told him if he had a mind to go, that he might, though he did not imagine it woul.l be of any great fcrvice, oniy to ttmu;e them wmlrt hr ntU.ht