The British governor Henry Hamilton, headquartered in Detroit, was known to Americans as the hair buyer for paying Indians for scalps of colonists. He gives a report about the nature of the forts on the Kentucky River near its entry into the Ohio.
Letter to Haldimand, [Sept. 5, 1778].
pp. 464-469.
| LETTERS FROM LIEUT. GOV. HAMILTON. | 465 |
declared their resolution to act against the Rebels, & but a few days since one of their parties which had been at war brought in fifteen scalps to this place. Many of the War Parties bring in Prisoners, and have strewn a humanity hitherto unpracticed among them, they never fail of a gratuity on every proof of obedience they shew, in sparing the lives of such as are incapable defending themselves.
A Prisoner brought in here by the Shawanese lately, who was taken near one of the Forts on the River Kentuke, tells me the Rebels were lately reinforced with three Companies each of 70 men. There are three different forts on that river & a forth has been begun lately at its conflux wit the Ohio.
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