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CHRISTOPHER GIST'S JOURNALS
WITH HISTORICAL, GEOGRAPHICAL AND ETHNOLOGICAL NOTES
AND BIOGRAPHIES OF HIS CONTEMPORARIES
BY
WILLIAM M. DARLINGTON [1815-1889]
PITTSBURGH, J. R. WELDIN & CO.,
1893.
[Part 6.]
http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~usgenweb/pa/1pa/1picts/gist/gj6b.html
pg. 171
“On the 5th, Post seems to have had an altercation with Croghan and Montour, relative to the Indians’ talk. On February 8th, 1759, Secretary Peters, at the request of General Forbes, held a conference at Philadelphia with the Six Nation Chiefs and other Indians from Bowlunee, on the Upper Allegheny, Andrew Montour, interpreter. On the 20th he (pg. 172) informed the Secretary that the Indians were dissatisfied. They said it was absolutely necessary Andrew should return to Ohio with them, but he told them he was an officer, subject to the General, and could not go without, written orders from him. (“Colonial Records.”)
These Indians wished to know the intentions of the English, and what was done at the Easton Treaty, etc. In July a great conference with all the Indian tribes of the Ohio was held at Pittsburgh, by George Croghan, Deputy Agent, Col. Hugh Mercer, commanding Fort Pitt, Captain William Trent, CAPTAIN THOMAS McKEE, (For many years Chief Indian Trader on the Susquehanna. He built Fort McKEE. ALEXANDER McKEE was his son.) Captain Henry; Montour, interpreter. It lasted from July 4th to 11th, 1759. King Beaver was the principal speaker of the Indians. Guyasuta (Kiashuta), was present.
Another conference was held at Pittsburgh, on October 24th, between General Stanwix, the officers, George Croghan, William Trent, McKEE, Captain Henry, Montour interpreter, Six Nations, Shawanese, Wyandots, Miamis, and Delawares.”
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