John Connolly, Virginia Governor Dunmore’s representative at Pittsburgh, issued a circular letter that essentially declared war on the Shawnee, Mingo and other tribes in present day West Virginia, Kentucky and Ohio. Dunmore and Connolly both remained loyal to Britain in the Revolution and ended up allied with these tribes but the Virginia militia who they summoned to fight in 1774 became the backbone of Patriot forces in the Revolution.

Source: https://www.jstor.org/stable/2210989?read-now=1&seq=21 at p. 473