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Collection Reference Number GLC09054.07
From Archive Folder Papers of British Secretary of War, Henry Fox, relating to Braddock's defeat near Fort Duquesne and the recall of William Shirley due to the "Intercepted Letters Scandal" 
Title Extract of the report made by the commissioners employed on the part of the Province of Pennsylvania at the meeting at Albany in 1754
Date ca. March 1756
Author Alexander, William, Lord Stirling (1726-1783)  
Document Type Land transaction document
Content Description Discusses news of the alleged spy, Mr. Lydius. News heard from a Mr. Woodbridge and two other Connecticut men who were "in Town with intent to negotiate a Puchase from the Indians for the Susquehannah Lands lying within the Latitude of the Connecticut Charter..." Goes on to more explicitly outline the charges against Lydius: "known to have abjured the Protestant Religion in Canada, and to be concerned in a clandestine Trade with the Caghnawaga or French praying Indians, and suspected to carry on a secret Correspondence with the Government of Canada; and as Mr. Alexander informed Us, might not only have lucrative Views in the Management of this Purchase, but a Design to sow Dissentions as well between the Indian Nations as between the several Colonies, whose Lands lay within the latitude of the Connecticut Charter." Creator from previous inventory. Scored left margin. Watermarked with a seal and "Pro Patria."
Subjects Religion  Global History and Civics  Military History  Spying  Corruption and Scandal  French and Indian War  France  American Indian History  Land Transaction  
People Alexander, William, Lord Stirling (1726-1783)  
Theme Religion; Foreign Affairs; French & Indian Wars; Native Americans
Sub-collection The Gilder Lehrman Collection, 1493-1859
Copyright The Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History
Module Settlement, Commerce, Revolution and Reform: 1493-1859