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CAPTAIN HART'S MASSACRE .26
a letter from the interior of the Indian country to inform Captain Heald that the Indians were hostile inclined, and only waiting the Declaration of War to commence open hostilities. This, they told Kinzie in confidence. On the 10th of July Captain Heald got the information of war being declared and, on the 8th of August, got Genl. Hull's order to evacute the post of Fort Dearborn by the route of Detroit or Fort Wayne, if practicable.
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