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"WE . . . OFFER A REWARD FOR INDIAN SCALPS" REED, JOSEPH. Letter Signed, "Jos. Reed / President," to Colonel Archibald Lochry, informing him that the Pennsylvania House of Assembly has resolved to send troops to protect the frontiers of Northampton, Northumberland, Westmoreland and Bedford counties. 3 pages, tall 4to, written on a folded sheet; scattered small holes and fold separations expertly repaired, faint scattered foxing, faint bleedthrough from docketing on terminal page. Philadelphia, 27 March 1779
". . . [A]fter several conferences with a committee of Congress on the defence of the frontiers, the House of Assembly resolved to commit the whole business to the Supreme Executive Council, who were to act in concert with Congress and General Washington . . . . [T]he President proposed to go to the camp and confer with the Commander in Chief in person, which he has accordingly done . . . . "The General expressed his full sense of the importance, necessity and duty of taking the most vigorous and speedy measures for the support and protection of the frontiers. Such parts of the plan as are not necessarily kept Secret . . . we . . . communicate to you and hope it will prove a most powerful encouragement to our distressed and apprehensive friends to stand their ground. A very respectable force which has been stationed for some time at Schohary . . . under General Hand is ordered over to the frontiers of Northampton and Northumberland . . . . It is also concluded to raise five companies of rangers . . . . The Commander in Chief has also ordered Colonel Rawlins regiment . . . to march to Fort Pitt and be stationed at Kittanning . . . . [W]e have ordered detachments from the militia of York Cumberland & Lancaster to march with all possible expedition for immediate protection of Bedford and Westmoreland. . . . [T]hese are only parts of the system, for it is fully determined to penetrate into the Indian country, and by a seasonable vigorous stroke, make them feel the weight of the American Arms. . . . We have it under deliberation to offer a reward for Indian Scalps, but it involves in it some considerations of a political nature, affecting the general system of the war with Great Britain. . . ." On August 24, 1781, over 100 Pennsylvania militiamen were captured or killed when they were ambushed by a similarly-sized group of American Indians led by Joseph Brant and George Girty. Lochry and over 30 of his men died, while the Indians suffered no casualties.
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