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[Letter from the Secretary of War to the Governor of Virginia]
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    War Office, 19th July 1790.
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Sir.
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    I had the honor on the 14th of April last
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to transmit to your excellency, copies of certain letters
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to the governor of the western territory, or in his absence
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to brigadier general Harman, and to Judge Innes, in
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order to exhibit the species of protection which he had
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been authorized on the part of the United States for the
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protection of such of the frontier counties, as should be
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expressed to the incursions of small parties of indians.
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    Since then repeated information has been
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received of depredations committed on the Ohio, and in
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the counties lying along the same. From a variety of
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circumstances it appears highly probable that the Shawn=
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nese, and out-cast Cherokees, and others, joined with them
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have been the perpetrators of the said depredations.
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    Those indians seem to form an in=
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corrigible