THE CONSPIRACY OF PONTIAC
AND THE INDIAN WAR AFTER
THE CONQUEST OF CANADA *

BY FRANCIS PARKMAN

Can 158.3

US

2016.43.5

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HARVARD
UNIVERSITY
LIBRARY

Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1870, by
FRANCIS PARKMAN,

In the Office of the Librarian of Congress, at Washington.

Copyright, 1897, 1898,

BY LITTLE, BROWN, AND COMPANY.

University Press :
JOHN WILSON AND SON, CAMBRIDGE, U.S. A.

CONTENTS.

CHAPTER XXV.

1764.

THE RIOTERS MARCH ON PHILADELPHIA.

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Excitement of the Borderers; their Designs. — Alarm of the

Quakers. The Converts sent to New York. - The Converts

forced to return. — Quakers and Presbyterians. — Warlike

Preparation. Excitement in the City.-False Alarm.-

Paxton Men at Germantown. - Negotiations with the Rioters.

Frontiersmen in Philadelphia. - Paper Warfare. Me-

morials of the Paxton Men .

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CHAPTER XXVI.

1764.

BRADSTREET'S ARMY ON THE LAKES.

Memorials on Indian Affairs. - Character of Bradstreet.-De-

parture of the Army. - Concourse of Indians at Niagara. —

Indian Oracle.-Temper of the Indians. Insolence of the

Delawares and Shawanoes. -Treaty with the Senecas.-

Ottawas and Menominies. Bradstreet leaves Niagara.-

Henry's Indian Battalion. - Pretended Embassy. - Pre-

sumption of Bradstreet. - Indians of Sandusky. - Bradstreet

at Detroit. Council with the Chiefs of Detroit. - Terms of

the Treaty. Strange Conduct of Bradstreet. - Michilimack-

inac reoccupied. - Embassy of Morris. - Bradstreet at San-

dusky. - Return of the Army. - Results of the Expedition.

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CHAPTER XXVIL

1764.

BOUQUET FORCES THE DELAWARES AND SHAWANOES TO SUE FOR

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PEACE.

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Renewal of Indian Ravages. — David Owens, the White Savage.
- Advance of Bouquet: his Message to the Delawares; the

March of his Army; he reaches the Muskingum. - Terror

of the Enemy. - Council with the Indians. — Speech of the

Delaware Orator. Reply of Bouquet; its Effect. - The

English Camp.- Letter from Bradstreet. Desperate Pur-

pose of the Shawanoes.- Peace Council. - Delivery of Eng-

lish Prisoners. -Situation of Captives among the Indians;

their Reluctance to return to the Settlements. - The Forest

Life.-Return of the Expedition.

Plants and Animals of the Illinois; its Early Colonization.

-Creoles of the Illinois; its Indian Population

CHAPTER XXIX.

1763-1765.

PONTIAC RALLIES THE WESTERN TRIBES.

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Cession of French Territory in the West.- - St. Louis. -Saint-

Ange de Bellerive. - Designs of Pontiac; his French Allies;

he visits the Illinois; his Great War-belt. - Repulse of

Loftus.-The English on the Mississippi. - New Orleans in

1765.-Pontiac's Embassy at New Orleans.

CHAPTER XXX.

1765.

RUIN OF THE INDIAN CAUSE.

Mission of Croghan. - Plunder of the Caravan. - Exploits of
Congress at Fort Pitt. Fraser's Discomfi-

the Borders.

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ture. Distress of the Hostile Indians. — Pontiac; his Des-
perate Position. — Croghan's Party attacked. — Croghan at
Ouatanon; his Meeting with Pontiac.- Pontiac offers Peace.
Croghan reaches Detroit. - Conferences at Detroit..
Peace Speech of Pontiac. Results of Croghan's Mission.
-The English take Possession of the Illinois

CHAPTER XXXI.

1766-1769.

DEATH OF PONTIAC.

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Congress at

Effects of the Peace. -Pontiac repairs to Oswego.

Oswego. - Speech of Sir William Johnson.-Reply of Pon-

tiac. Prospects of the Indian Race.Fresh Disturbances.

- Pontiac visits St. Louis. - The Village of Cahokia.

Assassination of Pontiac. - Vengeance of his Followers

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APPENDIX.

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A. THE IROQUOIS. ·

-EXTENT OF THEIR CONQUESTS.

POLICY PUR-

SUED TOWARDS THEM BY THE FRENCH AND THE ENGLISH.-

MEASURES OF SIR WILLIAM JOHNSON.

1. Territory of the Iroquois . .

2. French and English Policy towards the Iroquois.

ures of Sir William Johnson

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