[Extract of a letter from William Johnson to the Earl of Hillsborough].

[1770]

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Extract of a letter from Sir William Johnson to the Earl of Hillsborough dated Johnson Hall, August 14th, 1770. Johnson was relieved that the Indians he dealt with had been willing to make permanent the treaty done at Fort Stanwix. He had worked day and night to negotiate with as many tribes as possible because it was very expensive to provide for so many mouths over many days. The grievances of the Indians were basically two: the behavior of frontiersmen and the situation with the traders. Especially in Virginia, the residents thought nothing of killing any Indian they found and sometimes went hunting for them. The traders often cheated the Indians, but the chiefs worried most about the rum trade. Such trade was ideal for the supplier because the Indians would pay almost anything to get rum, but it meant misery for Indian families and sometimes white families when things got out of hand. All the legislatures of the colonies needed to pass laws about the liquor trade and put teeth into laws against murder and mayhem by the frontiersmen.

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