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Wm. Hartshorne's Journal of Journey to Detroit 1793

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7 mo. 1st. was an Eye witness of a Funeral in the Popish Style -- This afternoon arrived the Snow Ottaway from Fort Erie, by this Vessell, we learn, that the day before she sail'd, an Express came to the Commissioners from Philadelphia, and another from Fort Pitt, - various are the reports here, some favourable, others exceedingly discouraging, but having no accounts from the Commissioner we re anxiously waiting the next arrival for further intelligence. - The Ottaway brought a great number of Indians from Fort Erie, all of whom were whom were Landed at the Mouth of the Miami, except 17 of the Oneida