[236] Croghan, Journal. See Butler, Hist. Kentucky, 463.
[237] Pontiac MS.
[238] Gouin’s Account, MS. St. Aubin’s Account, MS. Diary of the Siege.
James MacDonald writes from Detroit on the 12th of July. “Half an hour afterward the savages carried (the body of) the man they had lost before Capt. Campbell, stripped him naked, and directly murthered him in a cruel manner, which indeed gives me pain beyond expression, and I am sure cannot miss but to affect sensibly all his acquaintances. Although he is now out of the question, I must own I never had, nor never shall have, a Friend or Acquaintance that I valued more than he. My present comfort is, that if Charity, benevolence, innocence, and integrity are a sufficient dispensation for all mankind, that entitles him to happiness in the world to come.”
[239] Penn. Gaz. No. 1808.
[240] Pontiac MS.
[241] Whatever may have been the case with the Pottawattamies, there were indications from the first that the Wyandots were lukewarm or even reluctant in taking part with Pontiac. As early as May 22, some of them complained that he had forced them into the war. Diary of the Siege. Johnson MSS.
[242] Extract from a MS. Letter—Sir J. Amherst to Sir W. Johnson.
“New York, 16th June, 1763.
“Sir: