British Policy in the Illinois Country, 1763-1768

by Clarence Edwin Carter

[127] See Ch. II for references.

[128] Johnson to Hillsborough, Aug. 14, 1770, N. Y. Col. Docs., VIII, 224. See extract from "Ponteach or the Savages of North America: A Tragedy," in Parkman, Conspiracy of Pontiac, II, 344 ff.

[129] Johnson to Hillsborough, Aug. 14, 1770, N. Y. Col. Docs., VIII, 224.

[130] Johnson to Hillsborough, Aug. 14, 1770, N. Y. Col. Docs., VIII, 292.

[131] Johnson to Lords of Trade, Sept. 1767, N. Y. Col. Docs., VII, 964-965.

[132] Ibid.

[133] Ibid.

[134] Ibid.

[135] The British were not so well situated to command the trade as the French had been. The Illinois post had always been the center for the trade of the Missouri river region, but after the cession of Illinois to England and the Foundation of St. Louis by La Clede in 1764, the latter place became the centre for the trade of that region.

[136] Information of the State of Commerce given by Capt. Forbes, 1768, Pub. Rec. Office, A. & W. I., Vol. 125.