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[Letter from the Secretary of War to the Governor of Virginia] 

    War Office, 19th July 1790.

Sir. 

   I had the honor on the 14th of April last

to transmit to your excellency, copies of certain letters to the governor of the western territory, or in his absence to brigadier general Harman, and to Judge Innes, in order to exhibit the species of protection which he had been authorized on the part of the United States for the protection of such of the frontier counties, as should be expressed to the incursions of small parties of indians. 

    Since then repeated information has been

received of depredations committed on the Ohio, and in the counties lying along the same. From a variety of circumstances it appears highly probable that the Shawn= nese, and out-cast Cherokees, and others, joined with them have been the perpetrators of the said depredations. 

    Those indians seem to form an in=

corrigible