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LETTERS OF C. AV. BUTTEKFIELD
" Nay, they (the Indians) were even so early in discovering the intentions of a force (Crawford's) collecting, that they urged the commandant at Detroit to assist them with troops, to join in fighting them on their arrival, and a body of the Rangers were in time enough at Sandusky to meet and join them, though they had to cross the lake and travel a great distance into the country." Heche-welder's "Narrative of the Moravian Missions," p. SS7. (The account of Crawford's campaign given by Heckewelder concludes thus: " The before mentioned affair
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