Documentary History of the State of New York, Vol. II

I am greatly distressed for want of provisions for the Ind"' resorting this way, some of them have been here for a Considerable time, and I am obliged to buy up Cattle for them which is a greater Expence to the Crown than Kings provisions. I must beg you will Order some this way as there are none to be spared from this Quarter or from Albany or Schenectady.

Geni Gage.

SIR WILLIAM JOHNSON-. 885

THE SAME TO THE SAME.

Johnson hall October 30th. 1767. Dear Sir

The 22*^. of this month I wrote you two Letters, the one on Indian Affairs in General, the other concerning the Command* of Michilimackinac, and I now inclose you my Acco*^ of pay and Disbursements for the whole Department to 25tii Sepi". {llinois^ Fort Pitt S) Detroit excepted, on a presumption that you had given M'*. Croghan orders concerning them agreeable to a former Letter of mine) for the am*, of w^h I beg the favor of you to order a Warrant being really much distressed for cash to answer them.

Since my last I have received more Letters from Michilimackinac concerning Affairs there by which I find that the Commissx has been Led off the parade by a File of Men & Confined on acco*^ of some words between him & the Commandant concerning a Cargo of Rum which was seized on the North Shore opposite the Fort, the particulars of which are I apprehend contained in Letters which' go by this post