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Title Letter from the Board of Trade to the Duke of Bedford stating the receipt of one from Governor Clinton of New York with two copies of an inclosed inscription upon a leaden plate by which the French claim the River Ohio and lands adjacent, together with a Speech made by the Indians of the Six Nations to Colonel Johnson and his answer thereto
Reference CO 5/1087
Library The National Archives
Date 4 Dec 1750 - 15 Mar 1751
Document Type Correspondence; Speech; Transcript
Theme(s) French; American Indians
Keywords Six Nations, governor, French, land, Indians, translation, river, Five Nations, Seneca, chief, gift, Cayuga
Places Ohio River; London; New York; Mount Johnson; Niagara; Lake Erie; Philadelphia; Virginia
People Russell, John (4th Duke of Bedford); Clinton, George; Johnson, William; Hay, Thomas (9th Earl of Kinnoull and Viscount Dupplin); Montagu-Dunk, George (2nd Earl of Halifax); Townshend, Charles (2nd Viscount Townshend); Warraghiyagee; Onoghcaritawey; Sagangiona; Cour, Jean; Johnson, William; Peters, Richard; Joncourt, Peter de; King Louis XV of France
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