Letter to William Denny [Philadelphia]
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Title
Letter to William Denny [Philadelphia]
Collection
Thomas Addis Emmet collection
Irving's Life of Washington
Names
Croghan, George (Author)
Denny, William, 1718- (Addressee)
Date / Origin
Date Created: 1758-06-30
Place: Fort Johnson, Johnstown, N.Y.
Library Location
Manuscripts and Archives Division
Shelf locator: MssCol 927
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Notes
Funding: Digitization was made possible by a lead gift from The Polonsky Foundation.
Content: L. S. 2 pp. 4o
Abstract
Reports news from the Five Nations that 20 Onondaga Indians had been killed or captured by Englishmen to the southward; thinks the story a French invention but if true desires Denny's influence to save prisoners from death, and asks him to advise Sir William Johnson, who marched the day before to join Gen. [James] Abercromby; Croghan followed [on July 1st] with the other divisions and the Indians; expects a total of 400 [Indians], some of all the Five Nations.
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NYPL Catalog ID (bnumber): b11868616
Archives ID: 927
Emmet number: EM. 13411
Archives EAD ID: 279394
Archives Components ID: 4442
Universal Unique Identifier (UUID): c472cf70-6a3a-0139-bb58-0242ac110002
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Manuscripts and Archives Division, The New York Public Library. "Letter to William Denny [Philadelphia]" The New York Public Library Digital Collections. 1758. https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/c472cf70-6a3a-0139-bb58-0242ac110002
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Manuscripts and Archives Division, The New York Public Library. (1758). Letter to William Denny [Philadelphia] Retrieved from https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/c472cf70-6a3a-0139-bb58-0242ac110002
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