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The Pontiac Manuscript
Tuesday, June 21 Since early dawn there was seen a great movement on the part of the nations who were constantly passing back and forth behind the fort, uttering cries as if they wanted to attempt something. These movements which had something peculiar, caused the English officers to keep themselves all day upon their guard, trying to find out the same,
which was only known in the following night by Mr. Baby, who came at two o'clock after midnight to the commander, that several settlers living at the lower south shore on the river bank had' told him they had seen the bark which seemed well loaded and with many men aboard. This same news the Indians had known first, and it had occasioned their uproar. Upon hearing the report of Mr. Baby, the commander ordered anew that at day break two cannon shots should be fired in quick succession on the southwest-side as a signal to the bark.
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