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Reviews, Notes and Comments 591

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