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1754-01/02, Journal of G. Croghan to Logstown (MS)
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Each wrapper said the same thing: Copy of George Croghan's journal to Logstown January and February 1754. On January 12, 1754, George Croghan and
his party started toward Logstown, Pennsylvania. Croghan met a trader who said George Washington had been on a scouting expedition and had talked
with a French commander. The commander had orders to rid the Ohio country of the English and build forts. Washington observed many soldiers and workmen
with plenty of supplies, who were preparing to go to Logstown. Croghan, Montour, and Patten all went on to Logstown, where they found all the
Indians drunk. The Shawnee there were aggressive, but calmed down after Croghan showed them that some of their tribe had been freed from prison in
Charleston and had come home. Five canoe loads of French appeared, but they did not stay long. Croghan heard that there was a large French force at the
Falls of the Ohio, with plenty of supplies, and that the Ottawas were massing to cut off the Shawnee from their home ground. The Wyandottes had refused
the war hatchet, but the Twickwees had gone to the French. Croghan tried to deliver the Governor's message, but the Indians stayed drunk for ten days.
Croghan finally called a Council on January 27th to send the Governor's regards, present the two returned captives, to learn if the letter
announcing the cession of a huge amount of land to the English was real or a fraud, and presented the goods Croghan had been holding since the Carlisle
meeting. Half King made the response and confirmed that the cession of land was a fraud. He earnestly requested forts and soldiers; the Six Nations and
their friends were ready to fight and the enemy was at the gate. Half King reported on a Council with the French which said the same thing the French
had told everyone. Four hundred soldiers were on the ground and the rest of the army would come in the spring. Croghan and his party left on February
2, 1754 with an urgent appeal from the chiefs for forts and soldiers. A chief of the Delawares made a similar appeal for a safe place for the women
and children. (Digitized from a microfilm copy held at the Pennsylvania State Historical Society)
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Title:
Copy of George Croghan journal to Logstown January and February 1754.
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OCLC Number:
1439122312
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