Ohio History Journal
Reviews, Notes and Comments 591
THE DUNMORE TREATY
In the hope that some trace might be
discovered of
the Dunmore Treaty, to which references
were made in
the meeting of the McGuffey Society at
the Logan Elm,
an account of which is published in
this issue, Governor
James E. Campbell, President of the
Society, on August
3, addressed a letter to the American
Ambassador at
London, England, to which he has
received the follow-
ing answer:
"DEAR SIR:-
"I have been instructed by the
Ambassador, who is at present
in Scotland, to acknowledge the receipt
of your letter of August
3rd, in which you request that an effort
be made to obtain a
copy of the Treaty of October 1774,
negotiated by Governor
Dunmore, with the Indian tribes of
Western Pennsylvania and
Virginia and a portion of Ohio.
"Inquiry was made of the Treaty
Department of the British
Foreign Office and a response has just
been received from that
office, a portion of which I beg to
quote:
'In reply to your letter of the 25th
ultimo relative to the desire of
the Ohio State Archaeological and
Historical Society to obtain a copy of
Governor Dunmore's treaty of October
1774 with Indian tribes of West-
ern Pennsylvania and Virginia and a
portion of Ohio, I regret to inform
you that no copy of the treaty can be
traced in this department or in
the Colonial Office.
'Enquiries have also been made in the
Public Record Office and
British Museum but no trace of the
document can be found. I do not
know in what other direction an enquiry
in this country could be directed
with any possibility of a successful
result.'
"I am, dear Sir,
"Your obedient servant,
"WALTER C. THURSTON,
"Second Secretary of
Embassy."
On the afternoon of October 2 an
interesting meet-
ing was held under the wide-spreading
branches of the
Logan Elm. Professor M. C. Warren,
County Super-
intendent of Schools, presided. The
principal address
was delivered by Dr. Howard Jones, of
Circleville.
This address in full, with a more
extended notice of the