On the 8th of May 250 years ago, William Crawford wrote a letter to George Washington reporting (as his brother Valentine had done the previous day) on the attack on Indians on the Ohio River led by Michael Cresap and the massacre at Yellow Creek committed by Daniel Greathouse and his gang. Then William Crawford added:
Our inhabetints is much alarmd, many hundreds haveing gon over the mountain and the hole Country Avackquated as far as monongahalia and many on this Side monongahalia is gone over the Mountain in Short a war is every momint Expected we have a Council now with them what will be the event I do not now.
I am now Seting out to Fort pitt at the head of one hundred men many other is to meet me at Fort pitt and Wheeling whare we shall watch the Motions of the Endiens and Shall Acct Accordingly
Source: https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Washington/02-10-02-0042
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Thanks for including the exact spelling. I hope everyone realizes that the spelling of American English was not standardized until decades later. People wrote the way they spoke at the time this was written. The poor grammar and “misspelled” words were more common back then.
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