1751]
Croghan's Journals
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not take above eight or nine men out with him, for if he took more he would find them very troublesome on the march and of no service; on which the General ordered me to send back all the men, women and children, to my house in Pennsylvania, except eight or ten, which I should keep as scouts and to hunt; which I accordingly did.
(Indorsed: "Recd with Sr Wm Johnson's letter of the 25 June, 1757.")
