If4_74 REVOLUTION ON UPPER OHIO

them as they wou'd be willing that you shou'd Act Equally foolish with themselves but rather Let what you hear pass in at one Ear and out of the other so that it may make no Impression on your Heart until you hear from me fully which shall be soon as I can give farther Information Captain White Eyes will please to Acquaint the Cornstalk with these my Sentiments also as well as the Cheifs of the Mingoes and the other six Nations your Sincere freind and Elder Brother (Signed) . DUNMORE

September 26th The Shawanese being Arrived th. Commissioners! received them with Drum and Colours and a Salute of small Arms from the Garrison and having Conducted them to a Council House Erected for the Occasion after a Short Pause the Cornstalk spoke as follows Brothers of Virginia Listen to what I am going to 3 say Captain McKee was many Years ago Placed by 3 Alexander McKee was a native of , who early began trading with the Indians on the Ohio, and by I772 was appointed deputy-agent under Sir William Johnson. In I77I he was justice of the peace for Bedford, later for West- moreland County. At the beginning of the Revolution he in- clined to the Royalist side, and was privately given a commis- sion by Dunmore as lieutenant-colonel of a battalion to be raised near . This enlistment was never accom- plished, and he contrived to quiet the suspicions of the patriot party so that under parole he was allowed his liberty. In August, I777, he was confined at Pittsburgh for a brief time, and an effort was made to remove him to an Eastern post This he adroitly evaded, and March 28, I778, left for accompanied by Matthew Elliot and . The Eng-