[ No. 36. ] LT. GOV. J. G. SIMCOE TO THE DUKE OF PORTLAND. MY LORD DUKE, UPPER CANADA, YORK, December 30th 1795. I had yesterday the honor of receiving Your Grace's Dispatch No. 8 together with triplicates of Nos. 6 and 7. Your Grace will have been acquainted by my Dispatch No. 28. that I took advantage of the Treaty between His Majesty and the United States being published in the newspapers of the States to explain to the Indians agreeably to Your Grace's directions the favorable situation, in which they are placed by the Treaty of Peaceand to prepare their minds for the evacuation of the Posts. The People of the States who meant to settle at Oswegatchie have thought proper not to persist in their design on my discountenancing of the measure. General Wayne, with between eight and nine hundred men, remains in quiet at his former station Grenville, nor has He executed any of his threats of advancing within the limits of His Majesty's Posts. I have the honour to be with the utmost Respect My Lord Duke, most obedient and most humble servant J. G. SIMCOE. His Grace The Duke of Portland, One of His Majesty's principal Secretaries of State, &c. &c. &c. Endorsed: Upper Canada, 30th Decr. 1795. In Genl. Simcoe. R. 28th April. Ansd. 3d Augt. No. 36. [Q 282-1, p 155] List of Persons holding Temporary appointments and Pensions in the Indian Department who are to receive Pay and Pensions for the year 1796 to commence the 25th December 1795. Amounting to one thousand six hundred and three pounds, two shillings Sterling dollars at 4 8 8 d £1608 2 s 0 d Simon Clarke is not included in the above list he receiving pay only for the days he is actually employed as Interpreter &c. N. B. Whenever the Deputy Super Intendant General &c finds the service of those or any of them employed at Swan Creek can be dispensed with they are to be discharged. [Q 57-2, p 432] JOSEPH CHEW, S. I. A. Mathew Elliot. George Ironside.. Simon Girty.. Thos. Alex Clarke. Timothy Murphy.. Thomas Duggan.. Guilliame La Mothe... The above Establishment does not take notice of Joseph Launiere Deputy Agent & Interpreter to the Indians Endorsed: Proposed Establishment for Officers of the Indian Department for 1796. [Q 57-2, p 4328] JOSEPH CHEW S. I. A. LT. COL. CHARLES STEVENSON TO HENRY DUNDAS, SEC'Y. Copy of a Letter to the Right Honble Henry Dundas. SIR, The last accounts from America having materially altered the circumstances of the relative situation in which the United States were expected to stand towards us, I have deemed it my duty to turn very fully in my mind the different bearings in which the delay in the execution of the last Treaty or the refusal on the part of the American Legislature to accede to it might affect Upper Canada, I have likewise been assisted in this object by the Marquis of Buckingham whose attachment to General Simcoe and whose correspondence with him has enabled him to judge with great advantage of the situation in which that Province may unexpectedly be placed in the month of July, if any circumstances should delay the evacuation (under the last Treaty) of our posts at Niagara and Detroit and it is at his desire I renew my proposal which had been approved by H. R. H. the Duke of York for raising a Black Legion of 1000 men from the Coasts of America & the back of Virginia and Pensilvania this Levy would in the contingency of good understanding with America give the means of strengthening the West India Army from Nova Scotia and in any other contingency might be the foundation of a Force which might be encreased to any extent and with consequences the most decisive in an American contest. I feel that it would be improper for me to dwell in this letter upon the present appearance of French Politicks & their operations in America my long services in that Country, the confidential situation I held in Sir Henry Clinton's Family, my, intercourse equally confidential with Genl Simcoe the time which I lately passed in the United States have given me data on which I have ventured to form my opinion, I have troubled you with the renewal of my proposal assuring myself that you will not consider me as urging from personal consideration an object in which I must necessarily meet many difficulties, much fatigue and no personal advantage being first Lt. Colonel of the 5th Regt there is but little inducement for me to leave it, but flattering myself, if I meet with liberal treatment, that my knowledge of that part of America and some knowledge of the character of the Blacks which I learned when serving in the West Indies, might prove useful in forming them for Service, I cannot from the encreased difficulty of that mode of recruiting do more than offer my services to assist Govmt. in raising a Legion of 1000 Blacks, endeavouring |