1765-09-07 DETROIT MICH-----ADDRESS PANEL OF COL. COLES LETTER ADDRESSED TO SIR WILLIAM JOHNSON BARRISTER AT JOHNSON HALL & ENDORSED A FAVOR MR CROGHAN---INDICATING THAT IT WAS CARRIED FROM DETROIT TO JOHNSON HALL BY GEORGE CROGHAN. ON THE BACKSIDE IS WRITTEN--DETROIT SBR. 7TH 1765 COL. COLES LETTER BY MR CROGHAN- SIR WILLIAM WRITING. THE ENCLOSED LETTER-NOT PRESENT- WAS WRITTEN 10 DAYS AFTER GEORGE CROGHAN AS REPRESENTATIVE OF SIR WILLIAM JOHNSON MET CHIEF PONTIAC ON AUGUST 27TH, 1765 TO- SMOKE THE PEACE PIPE- AND END PONTIACS FRUITLESS STRUGGLE AND THE SIEGE OF THE FORT BY THE INDIANS. SIR WILLIAM JOHNSON WAS THE COMMISSIONER OF INDIAN AFFAIRS FOR THE BRITISH. PORTION OF THE PUTER ADDRESS PANEL ONLY. ----GENEALOGY 3---NATIVE AMERICAN HISTORY----COURTESY OF EBACH-WHITFORD AUCTION LOT 2003 52a $1100 E2 TIFF
Year: 1765
Date: 1765-09-07
County:
Wayne
City:
Detroit
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MI Covers
, MI Genealogy
, Michigan Territorial
, Privately Owned
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