Chronicles of border warfare

by Alexander Scott Withers

“As Colo^l. Clark makes a difficulty of coming into the Garrison, L^t. G. Hamilton will speak with him before the Gate––

Henry Hamilton.

“Feb^y. 24^th. 1779––Fort Sackville––”

Clark’s gruff reply, in rugged, but not unclerical chirography, was as follows:

“Colonel Clark’s Compliments to M^r. Hamilton and begs leave to inform him that Co^l. Clark will not agree to any Other Terms than that of M^r. Hamilton’s Surrendering himself and Garrison, Prisoners at Discretion––

“If M^r. Hamilton is Desirous of a Conferance with Co^l. Clark he will meet him at the Church with Capt^n. Helms––

“Feb^y. 24^th., 1779.

G. R. Clark.”––R. G. T.

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Hamilton, in a letter of July 6, 1781, contained in the Haldimand Papers, in the British Museum, gives what he calls “a brief account” of his ill-starred expedition. See Roosevelt’s Winning of the West, passim.––R. G. T.