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+The Project Gutenberg EBook of Narrative of Mr. John Dodge during his
+Captivity at Detroit, by John Dodge
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+Title: Narrative of Mr. John Dodge during his Captivity at Detroit
+
+Author: John Dodge
+
+Annotator: Clarence Monroe Burton
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+Release Date: August 3, 2010 [EBook #33344]
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+Language: English
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+                       THE DODGE NARRATIVE, 1780
+                           FACSIMILE REPRINT
+
+
+
+           _Sixty-three copies printed sixty being for sale_
+
+
+
+                               NARRATIVE
+                                  OF
+                            MR. JOHN DODGE
+                         DURING HIS CAPTIVITY
+                              AT DETROIT
+
+                   REPRODUCED IN FACSIMILE FROM THE
+                        SECOND EDITION OF 1780
+
+                       WITH AN INTRODUCTORY NOTE
+                                  BY
+                        CLARENCE MONROE BURTON
+
+                            [Illustration]
+
+                          CEDAR RAPIDS, IOWA
+                            THE TORCH PRESS
+                         NINETEEN HUNDRED NINE
+
+
+
+
+                          THE DODGE NARRATIVE
+
+
+The narrative of John Dodge is one of the records of frontier life
+during the period of the American Revolution that displays the intense
+feeling of hatred and unfairness evinced by the British soldiers to the
+American rebels. It was written and published during the time of the
+greatest excitement in the West--the scene of the Narrative--and is
+historically valuable because of being contemporary with the events in
+question.
+
+It was considered of great importance at the time of its first
+appearance, having been at once reprinted in England[1] and passed
+through at least three editions in America.[2]
+
+In other writings published in England in 1779, appear the first public
+notice of the cruelties and gross irregularities in the administration
+of justice in Detroit under the rule of Lieutenant Governor Henry
+Hamilton, and the presentment of Hamilton by the grand jury of Montreal
+for murder in the execution of a Frenchman convicted of stealing. From
+the Narrative were taken the charges made against Hamilton, when he was
+a prisoner in Williamsburg, in consequence of which he was confined in
+irons and barely escaped a more serious, and perhaps even a capital
+punishment.[3] But little at the present time can be ascertained of
+Dodge. He was born in Connecticut, July 12, 1751, and was the son of
+John Dodge and his wife, Lydia Rogers.[4] John Dodge, the father, was a
+Baptist minister by profession and a blacksmith by trade. His son John
+was one of a numerous family of children. His brother Israel, who was
+with him in the West, was nine years his junior, having been born
+September 3, 1760. Before John had reached his nineteenth year he had
+wandered into the northern part of the Ohio district and had entered
+into business as a trader in Sandusky. He was familiar with the Indian
+language used in his neighborhood and frequently acted as interpreter.
+
+Many of the events of his life from this time, are contained in his
+Narrative and it is needless to repeat them here, but mention might be
+made of other acts of his and records pertaining to him, of which he
+makes no mention. On the fourth day of April, 1776, Dodge, with William
+Tucker, purchased a house and lot in Detroit, from Joseph Poupard
+Lafleur, for 3,000 livres, and a few days later Tucker agreed to repay
+Dodge whatever sums he had paid for this house if Dodge "went down the
+country," as he then contemplated.[5] Dodge did not go "down the
+country," but remained in Detroit and sold his interest in the land to
+William Tucker July 6, 1777. In this deed Dodge is described as "a
+trader of Detroit," and it is stated that he bought the house and lot
+of Lafleur June 7, 1774.[6] His Narrative does not agree with the
+records in all cases, for he says he was confined in jail from January
+to July, 1776, in daily expectation of death, while the records show
+that he purchased this house and lot during this period. The story of
+the rescue of a prisoner from the Indians, related in his Narrative, is
+contained in the report of the Virginia Council of June 16, 1779.
+Sometimes at liberty, engaged in trading, and sometimes confined in jail
+as a rebel, he remained in Detroit and Mackinac till May, 1778, when he
+was sent down to Quebec, at which place he arrived on the first day of
+June.
+
+In the reports of rebel prisoners at Quebec in June and July, 1778, are
+three entries referring to Dodge as follows: "John Dodge, 24 years old,
+from Connecticut, a trader settled at Detroit for seven years, sent down
+by Lieutenant Governor Hamilton. His commercial effects at Detroit.
+Taken up on suspicion of having been in arms with the rebels."[7] He
+remained in Quebec until the ninth day of the following October when he
+escaped, going first to Boston and subsequently to General Washington.
+Dodge does not state where or when he met Washington, but as the General
+was in attendance at Congress from December 21, 1778, until some time in
+the following January, he probably met him at Philadelphia. Dodge says
+he visited Congress "having some matters relating to Canada worthy their
+hearing." This related to the "certain expedition" referred to by
+Washington in his letter of December 29th, a proposition to invade
+Canada. Dodge was at Fort Pitt in the early part of January, 1779, and
+from that port wrote a letter to John Montour.[8] There is no record of
+Dodge's appearance before Congress, but he wrote a letter on the
+subject, to Congress, as follows:
+
+  Honorable Congress
+
+                                            Pitsburg Jeneary 25 1779--
+
+  as I have Ben one of the grateest Suferers that is now in the united
+  States of Ameraca Both in Person and Property
+
+  I have Sufferd Every thing But Death Robd Plundered of Every far
+  thing that I was master of But loock upon it as an honour that I
+  have Suffard in so just a Cause as we are now Engagd in and very
+  happy that I have made my Escape from the Enemi after Being Prisener
+  two years and nine months I think it my Duty as I am now in the
+  Service of the united States to Enform your honnours of the
+  Proceedings and Carriings on in the Department whare I am--it Both
+  greaves and Shagrans me to the hart to Se matters so Ill Conduckted
+  as theay are in this Department--it is very natural for Every one
+  that has the Cause of his Contry at hart to Enquire into the reason
+  of our grevences--is not one the farmers Being Drove of thair
+  Plantation on our fronteers By the Saveges--Could theay remaind on
+  thair Plantations theay Could have Ben very Sarvesable in Suppliing
+  our main army in Provisions in Stead of that the Poor mifortonate
+  Peopel are obleged to retreet into the thick Setled Contry and I may
+  Say live almost upon the Charrity of the Contry which of consequence
+  must Distress the hole Contry for Provisions we will Enquire why
+  those Saveges are our Enemies theay are Bribd By the British to
+  take up the hachet against us whare is thair rendevous Detroit a
+  place Stockaded in with Cedar Pickets and Eighty Soldiers to gard it
+  But it is Strong Enough to keep a large Quantity of goods in so the
+  British Can and Do give near a millian Presents to Bribe the Saveges
+  to fall upon our fronteers and Distress our hole Contry--But we will
+  Suppose that Place to Be Esily taken which it raly is if matters
+  ware Conducted as theay ought to Be--But we will Say that the
+  Publick has Ben at grate Expence for two years Past and thare is
+  nothing Done I may Say nothing thare is a fort Bult at Bever Criek
+  and one at tuskerowayes which if theay are not rainforst with men
+  and Provisions very Spedily we have no reason to think But theay
+  will fall into the hands of the Enemi in the Spring now had one of
+  those forts Ben Bult at Preskeele or Kichoga or any whare on the
+  lake side the men might have Ben Employed this winter in Boulding of
+  Boats or gundelows So that in the Spring we Could Command the lakes
+  which if we Dont we Cant keep Detroit if we take it or if the winter
+  had Seveir we Could have gone on the ice and taken Detroit and
+  vessels to and with half the men that it would have taken at any
+  other Season of the year for the vessels would Be all froze up But
+  in Stead of that theay are Bult in an Endian Contry whare that all
+  Supplies may Be very Esily Cut of and give the Saveges Susspicon
+  that we are a going to Conker them and not our Enemi the English and
+  very good right theay have after thare has Ben such threats throw
+  out to them as thare has we hant the reason But to Expect then all
+  against us Before general McIntosh marcht from Bever Criek the
+  governer of Detroit Put up a few of the lower Sort of Saveges By
+  Bribing them to Send word to the general that theay would meet him
+  at Shuger Criek and give him Battel at the Same time thare was more
+  than four to one Sent him word that theay would not Enterfeir or
+  misleit him on his march as he had told them that he would go to
+  Detroit the general marcht to the Place But thare was not one that
+  apeard against him he then gave word that all those Saveges that Did
+  not Come in within twelve Days time and join him that he would loock
+  upon them as Enemies and use them as Such and that he would Destroy
+  thair hole Contry--now it was an impossibillity for those nation
+  that sent him word that theay would not misleit him to get word in
+  that Short Space of time which the general thought Proper to Set
+  much more Come in--now what Can we Expect But to have them all
+  against us if thare is not Some Spedy rimedy--I Cannot Say what
+  opinion your honours may have of the Saveges But I Can asure you
+  that theay are very numerous thair numbers are not known that thare
+  has not one out of a hundred taken up the hachet against us yet But
+  we Cannot But Expect theay will if there is not Proper Steps taken
+  and that Spedily--we will Supose that the Proper Steps are for us to
+  march threw thair Contry and take Detroit which is Esily Done if
+  matters ware Conducted as theay ought to Be--and By having that in
+  our Possession and the lakes it will Be in our Power to forse all
+  those near nations to Come upon our terms and that will Enduce all
+  the farrons ones to Be upon aliance with us and then we Shall have
+  all the trade of that Extensive Contry Quite from the north west
+  hutsons Bay lake Superier the heads of the macceippia which will
+  make our Contry florish--But we will Say the Publick has Ben at
+  grate Expence for two years Past and we are no nearer now than we
+  was when we fust Set out But what is the reason it is Because thare
+  was Peopel Sent that Knew nothing of the mater the general told me
+  that he was Brought up by the (sic) Sea Shore and that he knew
+  nothing abought Pack horseing in this wooden Contry--I Dont take it
+  upon me to Dictate or Sensure no one But I think that ought to Be
+  Enquired into Before thare was thousands Spent But now it is to
+  recall the horses and Bollocks are Dead the Provisions is Eat the
+  men must have thair Pay it is Sunk lost gone and here we are Still
+  going on in the Same way the general has likewise got the ill will
+  of all his officers the melitia in Protickaler which I am very sorry
+  for as theay are the only Peopel that we have to Depend upon to Do
+  any thing in this Deartment--now if thare was not any one that knew
+  how matters Should have Ben Conducted it would have Ben a meteriel
+  Diference--But thare is a gentlemon of an unblemisht Carrecter who
+  has Singulied himself By leaveing Every thing that was near and Dear
+  to him and Come in to this Quarter of the Contry Prepared Proper
+  talks for the Saveges and as he was grately respected By all those
+  who knew him it had its Entended Effect and I Can asure your
+  honnours that it has Ben the Saving of hundreads of lives and I Can
+  further asure you By various Surcomstances and Credible Intilegence
+  that if he had not have Come and Did what he Did that thare would
+  not have remaind one family this Side alagane mountains--he is Still
+  Striveing to keep them from falling upon us But as here is others
+  here Strieveing to Set them up it will Be a very Difecult matter for
+  him to Do it he has Sent for the Cheifs of the nations to Come in
+  and that thare is Still mercy for them if theay will know thair Duty
+  and as his Enfluence is grate with all those nations who know him I
+  am in hope it will have its Effect But I Should not Be Disapointed
+  if theay Did not after receiveing Such threts as theay have he has
+  like wise at his own Privat Expence hired men and Sent threw the
+  hole Contry abought Detroit and this side found out the Situation of
+  it and when I was Prisener with the British I have heard them often
+  make remarks that if he Did not Come against that we had not another
+  man in our Parts that knew the Situation of the Contry and had the
+  Enfluence with the natives as he had--But whatever knoledge he may
+  have Concarning those matters he has not never had the offer of
+  ordering of them But in Stead of that he has Ben Put under an arest
+  By the fals raports of a Poor Ignorant Set of Peopel which is to the
+  Eternal Shame of our Contry after he had Savd them from Being
+  masacereed By the Saveges that was his reward--now I beg that your
+  Honnours will take it into Consideration and order some Spedy
+  arangement Before this Quarter of the Contry is ruined a house
+  Devided against it Self Cannot Stand and your honnours may rely upon
+  it that is the case here if I have taken to much liberty I Beg your
+  honnours will loock over it as I would not wish to Do more than My
+  Duty--form your most obedient
+
+                                      and humble Servant--John Dodge--
+
+  upon Colo. Morgans arival here he Sent an Express to the Endian
+  nations for them to Come in and thare has two runners jest arived
+  here with Speaches of grate Concequence which I suppose he will
+  acquaint Congress with the Eairliest oppertunity--
+
+              (_in pencil_)
+  Specimen of the Literati of '76--!
+            (_Indorsement_)
+                   Letter from John Dodge
+            Pittsburg 25 Jany 1779
+              Read Feby. 17th.--
+            Referred to the board of war--
+
+This letter or statement was not received by Congress till December
+13, 1781, nearly two years later, and the committee to which it was
+referred, reported adversely to the suggestions contained in it, March
+20, 1782.
+
+Early in 1779, Lieutenant Governor Henry Hamilton was captured
+by General George Rogers Clark at Vincennes and was carried to
+Williamsburg, Virginia, as a prisoner of war. The letters and Narrative
+of Dodge had been read by some members of the Council of Virginia and
+the Council resolved, June 16, 1779, that because of the cruelties
+inflicted by Great Britain on the American prisoners of war, it was
+proper to begin a system of retaliation, and they conclude their
+resolution as follows:--"this board has resolved to advise the governor
+that the said Henry Hamilton, Philip Dejean and William LaMothe,
+prisoners of war, be put in irons, confined in the dungeon of the public
+jail, debarred the use of pen, ink and paper and excluded all converse
+except with their keeper, and the governor orders accordingly." The
+charges preferred by Dodge against Hamilton, were urged as an additional
+reason for confining the latter in jail. Hamilton answered that the
+statements of Dodge were mutual, and that the latter was "an
+unprincipled and perjured renegade."[9]
+
+Hamilton's excuses were not well received, and although no longer
+confined in irons, he remained in prison for some time, but was finally
+released and subsequently returned to Canada as Lieutenant Governor of
+the province.
+
+Dodge was appointed Indian Agent by Virginia and was located in
+Kaskaskia from 1780 to 1788 and possibly until a later date.[10]
+
+When claims of the Revolutionary soldiers to the western lands were
+being considered Dodge laid claim to a section, as a refugee from
+Canada[11] and his heirs were awarded a tract containing 1280 acres in
+the year 1800. This indicates that Dodge died before May 8th of that
+year. Four patents were issued to the heirs of John Dodge for lands in
+town sixteen, range twenty, Ohio, July 12, 1802.
+
+Henry L. Caldwell, a grandson of Israel Dodge, wrote as follows:--"I do
+not know the date of the death of Colonel John Dodge, neither can I
+locate his grave or that of my grandfather, Israel Dodge, but the
+remains of both are, beyond doubt, resting in the old grave yard in Ste.
+Genevieve, Mo., which adjoins the catholic grave yard."[12]
+
+John Dodge, while living at Kaskaskia, held a commission of Colonel
+received from Governor Patrick Henry of Virginia. His brother Israel
+Dodge was a lieutenant under him at that place. Israel had married Ann
+Hunter at Carlisle, Pa., before he moved to the West, and at Vincennes,
+their son Henry, who afterwards became the first Governor of the
+Territory of Wisconsin, was born October 12, 1782. He was named after
+Moses Henry, who was in the fort at Vincennes when it was captured by
+Governor Hamilton in 1778, being the only private in the "Army" which
+held out against the British invader.
+
+There is a letter from John Dodge from Kaskaskia, June 23, 1783,
+informing the Indians that Detroit had been captured by the Americans.
+A false report. Va. St. Pap. 3. 500.
+
+A letter to Philip Boyle at Sandusky, July 13, 1779, in Farmer's Hist.
+of Detroit 1. 173. This letter was intercepted by the British. It
+enclosed the proceedings of the Virginia Council concerning Hamilton.
+
+Dodge was a great traveler in his day. Born in Connecticut in 1751, he
+went to Sandusky, Ohio, in 1770, thence to Fort Pitt (Pittsburg), thence
+back to Sandusky, thence in succession to Detroit, Michillimackinac
+(Mackinac), Detroit, Quebec, Boston, New York, Philadelphia, Fort Pitt,
+Vincennes (Indiana), Kaskaskia (Illinois), Ste. Genevieve (Missouri),
+and New Orleans. We find mention of the man at these places and it is
+very probable that his travels were much more extensive.[13]
+
+In the Harman papers, as reported by the Missouri Historical Society, is
+the following reference to Dodge in a letter from John Rice Jones, dated
+October, 1789: "John Dodge and Michael Antanya, with a party of whites
+and armed Piankeshaw Indians, came over from the Spanish side and
+attempted to carry off some slaves of Mr. John Edgar, and otherwise were
+guilty of outlandish conduct, threatening to burn the village." Dodge
+and Edgar were old friends and fellow prisoners at Detroit. They were
+both arrested and confined in that place as being too friendly towards
+the American cause. Edgar was one of the witnesses relied upon to prove
+that Dodge was entitled to the land grant for which he had made
+application as a Canadian refugee.
+
+James Wood[14] of Frederick County, Va., who is mentioned in the
+Narrative, was appointed to command an expedition against the Shawanese,
+and armed his company at his own expense. He was also deputed, by the
+House of Burgesses, in 1775, to go among the several tribes of Western
+Indians and invite them to a treaty at Fort Pitt. He set out on his
+errand June 25, 1775, and was gone two months. He "underwent the
+greatest fatigues, difficulties and dangers." He was ordered paid £250
+for "the great service he hath done to this colony, by his diligent and
+faithful execution of the commission with which he was intrusted."
+
+The meeting of the Indians, which is referred to in the Narrative, took
+place at Fort Pitt in October, 1775. One of the Indian chiefs who was
+present on the occasion, was Shegenaba, the son of the famous Pontiac.
+His father had recently been killed in a war between the Indians, and he
+refers to this event in his speech, a part of which is as follows:
+
+  Fathers: From the information I have had of the commandant of
+  Detroit, with distrust I accepted your invitation, and measured my
+  way to the council fire with trembling feet. Your reception of me
+  convinces me of his falsehood, and the groundlessness of my fears.
+  Truth and he has long been enemies. My father, and many of my
+  chiefs, have lately tasted death. The remembrance of that misfortune
+  almost unmans me, and fills my eyes with tears.
+
+The following is another letter by Dodge:
+
+                                             Fort Pitt Decr 13th 1781.
+
+  Sir
+
+  I think it my indispencible duty to Lay before your Excellency a
+  State of the Western Islianoy Country which may Probably throw Some
+  light on the Various Reports which may have Reached you through
+  Channels not so well acquainted with it as I am--Since Col George
+  Rogers Clark took Possion of that Country by order of the State of
+  Virginia the inhabitants have been obliged to furnish The means of
+  Subsistance for a number of troops stationed Thare--Received bills
+  for payment but the Greatest part of them protested and Still
+  Remains unpaid which have Not only impoverished the Country to a
+  Great Degree but Numbers have Joynd the Spanish Settlements on the
+  Same Account and indeed the Greatest part are determined to Follow
+  them if their Grievances are Not Remedied in Consequence the
+  enormous Expence the State of Virginia has Been at in that quarter
+  will be but of little advantage To the united States if the
+  inhabitants all leave that Country and Join the Spanish Settlements
+  who are Making use of Every means and giving Every incouragement In
+  their power Even to our allied Savages but as Yet their efforts has
+  proved inafectual with them But as Poverty is always loyable to
+  temptation I fear their Warmest attachment to us Will be Seduced by
+  those Who have it in their power to Supply them the inhabitants are
+  too inconsiderable to Guard themselves from the Hostilities of our
+  Enemies and have often Solicited me to Represent their Situation to
+  Congress before the State of Virginia Gave up their Claim to that
+  Country--the the Chief of the indian Nations Sent a Speech to
+  Congress Representing the State of his Nation and if Nothing Cold
+  be done in Regard of Suplying them Beged an answer Which to my
+  knoledge was lodged with the board of War and Never no answer
+  Received--Should Congress think proper to Send troops to protect and
+  keep that Country under Subjection the Only Way in my Humble opinion
+  to Furnish them Would be to send Some Confidential person with a
+  proper Supply of Merchandize which would in incourage the Settlement
+  of the Country Cultivate the Savage interest Supply the troops with
+  Every Necessary the Return would also answer for Exportation and
+  Finally open a Very Profitable and Extensive trade in a little
+  time--But these hints I beg leave to Refer to your Excellencies own
+  better Judgment Consious that if they are worth your Notice Will
+  direct them into their Proper uses--I propose to Leave this Soon for
+  that quarter and Shall be Very happy in Rendering any Service in my
+  Power which may be advantageous to the United States that Your
+  Excellency may think Proper to intrust to my mannagement--Pleasd to
+  Excuse the freedom of my remarks Which you Will do me the Honour to
+  Corruct
+
+                             I have the honour to be with the Greatest
+  Respect
+
+                             Your Excellencies
+                                 Most Obd and Very
+                                     Humbe Servt--
+                                        Jno. Dodge
+  To
+    His Excellency
+      President of Congress
+  (Dec. 13, 1782)
+
+                (_Indorsement_)
+            Letter 13 Decr. 1781
+                John Dodge
+            Read Feby. 27, 1782
+          Referred to Mr. Wolcot
+                      Mr. Clark
+                      Mr. Patridge
+            The Comd discharged
+  (_Address_)
+      His Excellency
+          President of Congress
+              Philadelphia
+
+The Committee to whom was referred the Letter of John Dodge report
+
+That they have made the fullest enquiry that the circumstances of the
+case would admit, relative to the Facts mentioned in said Letter, But
+have not been able to obtain any Evidence to support them--and are
+therefore of opinion that the Committee ought to be discharged.
+
+    March 20, 1782.
+
+  In council June 16, 1779.
+
+  The board proceeded to the consideration of the letters of colonel
+  Clarke, and other papers relating to Henry Hamilton Esqr., who has
+  acted for some years past as Lieutenant Governour of the settlement
+  at and about Detroit, and Commandant of the British garrison there,
+  under Sir Guy Carleton as Governour in Chief; Philip Dejean Justice
+  of the Peace for Detroit and William Lamothe, Captain of volunteers,
+  prisoners of war, taken in the county of Illinois.
+
+  They find that Governour Hamilton has executed the task of inciting
+  the Indians to perpetrate their accustomed cruelties on the citizens
+  of these States, without distinction of age, sex, or condition, with
+  an eagerness and activity which evince that the general nature of
+  his charge harmonized with his particular disposition; they should
+  have been satisfied from the other testimony adduced that these
+  enormities were committed by savages acting under his commission,
+  but the number of proclamations which, at different times were left
+  in houses, the inhabitants of which were killed or carried away by
+  the Indians, one of which proclamations, under the hand and seal of
+  Governour Hamilton, is in possession of the Board, puts this fact
+  beyond doubt. At the time of his captivity it appears, that he had
+  sent considerable detachments of Indians against the frontier
+  settlements of these states, and had actually appointed a great
+  council of Indians to meet him at the mouth of the Tanissee, to
+  concert the operations of this present campaign. They find that his
+  treatment of our citizens and soldiers, captivated and carried
+  within the limits of his command, has been cruel and inhumane; that
+  in the case of John Dodge, a citizen of these states, which has been
+  particularly stated to this Board, he loaded him with irons, threw
+  him into a dungeon, without bedding, without straw, without fire, in
+  the dead of winter and severe climate of Detroit; that in that state
+  he harrassed and wasted him, with incessant expectations of death;
+  that when the rigours of his situation had brought him so low that
+  death seemed likely to withdraw him from their power, he was taken
+  out and attended to somewhat mended, and then again, before he had
+  recovered abilities to walk, was returned to his dungeon, in which a
+  hole was cut seven inches square only, for the admission of air, and
+  the same load of irons again put on him; that appearing again to be
+  in imminent danger of being lost to them, he was a second time taken
+  from his dungeon, in which he had lain from January to June, with
+  the intermission before mentioned of a few weeks only; That
+  Governour Hamilton gave standing rewards for scalps, but offered
+  none for prisoners, which induced the Indians, after making their
+  captives carry their baggage into the neighborhood of the fort,
+  there to put them to death, and carry in their scalps to the
+  Governour, who welcomed their return and success by a discharge of
+  cannon; that when a prisoner brought [a]live, and destined to death
+  by the Indians, the fire already kindled, and himself bound to the
+  stake, was dexterously withdrawn and secreted from them by the
+  humanity of a fellow prisoner; a large reward was offered for the
+  discovery of the victim, which having tempted a servant to betray
+  his concealment, the present prisoner Dejean being sent with a party
+  of soldiers, surrounded the house, took and threw into jail the
+  unhappy victim, and his deliverer, where the former soon expired
+  under the perpetual assurances of Dejean, that he was to be again
+  restored into the hands of the savages, and the latter when enlarged
+  was bitterly and illiberally reprimanded and threatened by Governour
+  Hamilton.
+
+  It appears to them that the prisoner Dejean, was on all occasions
+  the willing and cordial instrument of Governour Hamilton, acting
+  both as judge and keeper of the jail, and instigating and urging him
+  by malicious insinuations and untruths, to increase rather than
+  relax his severities, heightening the cruelty of his orders by the
+  manner of executing them; offering at one time a reward to one
+  prisoner to be the hangman of another, threatening his life on
+  refusal, and taking from his prisoners the little property their
+  opportunities enabled them to acquire.
+
+  It appears that the prisoner, Lamothe, was a Captain of the
+  volunteer scalping parties of Indians and whites wh[o] went out from
+  time to time, under general orders to spare neither men, women, nor
+  children.
+
+  From this detail of circumstances which arose in a few cases only,
+  coming accidentally to the knowledge of the Board they think
+  themselves authorized to presume by fair deduction what would be the
+  horrid history of the sufferings of the many who have expired under
+  their miseries (which therefore will remain forever untold) or who
+  having escaped from them, are yet too remote and too much dispersed
+  to bring together their well grounded accusations against these
+  prisoners.
+
+  They have seen that the conduct of the British officers, civil and
+  military, has in its general tenor, through the whole course of this
+  war, been savage & unprecedented among civilized nations; that our
+  officers and soldiers taken by them have been loaded with irons,
+  consigned to loathesome and crouded jails, dungeons, and prison
+  ships; supplied often with no food, generally with too little for
+  the sustenance of nature, and that little sometimes unsound and
+  unwholsome, whereby so many of them have perished that captivity and
+  miserable death have with them been almost synonimous; that they
+  have been transported beyond seas where their fate is out of the
+  reach of our enquiry, have been compelled to take arms against their
+  country, and by a new refinement in cruelty to become the murtherers
+  of their own brethren.
+
+  Their prisoners with us have, on the other hand, been treated with
+  moderation and humanity; they have been fed on all occasions with
+  wholesome and plentiful food, lodged comfortably, suffered to go at
+  large within extensive tracts of country, treated with liberal
+  hospitality, permitted to live in the families of our citizens, to
+  labour for themselves, to acquire and to enjoy property, and finally
+  to participate of the principal benefits of society while privileged
+  from all its burthens.
+
+  Reviewing this contrast which cannot be denied by our enemies
+  themselves in a single point, which has now been kept up during four
+  years of unremitted war, a term long enough to produce well founded
+  despair that our moderation may ever lead them into a practice of
+  humanity, called on by that justice which we owe to those who are
+  fighting the battles of their country, to deal out at length
+  miseries to their enemies, measure for measure, and to distress the
+  feelings of mankind by exhibiting to them spectacles of severe
+  retaliation, where we had long and vainly endeavoured to introduce
+  an emulation in kindness; happily possessed by the fortune of war
+  some of those very individuals, who having distinguished themselves
+  personally in this line of cruel conduct, are fit subjects to begin
+  on with the work of retaliation, this Board has resolved to advise
+  the Governour that the said Henry Hamilton, Philip Dejean, and
+  William Lamothe, prisoners of war, be put into irons, confined in
+  the dungeon of the publick jail, debarred the use of pen, ink, and
+  paper, and excluded all converse except with their keeper. And the
+  Governour orders accordingly.
+
+      Attest                          Archibald Blair C. C. (_A copy_)
+
+
+
+
+                              MR. DODGE'S
+                               NARRATIVE
+                      Of his SUFFERINGS among the
+                                BRITISH
+                              AT  DETROIT.
+
+                             [Illustration]
+
+
+                             [Illustration]
+
+
+
+
+                            AN ENTERTAINING
+                               NARRATIVE
+
+               Of the cruel and barbarous Treatment and
+                         extreme SUFFERINGS of
+
+                            MR. JOHN DODGE
+                              DURING  HIS
+                               CAPTIVITY
+                       OF MANY MONTHS AMONG THE
+                                BRITISH.
+                               AT DETROIT.
+
+                      IN WHICH IS ALSO CONTAINED,
+
+               A particular Detail of the SUFFERINGS of
+                 a Virginian, who died in their Hands.
+
+    Written by Himself: and now published to satisfy the Curiosity
+              of every one throughout the UNITED STATES.
+
+                          THE SECOND EDITION.
+
+               DANVERS, near SALEM: Printed and Sold by
+             E. RUSSELL. next the Bell-Tavern. M,DCC LXXX.
+          At the same Place may be had a Number of new Books,
+        &c. some of which are on the Times--Cash paid for Rags
+
+
+
+
+  It is worthy of remark, that the three persons who make a principal
+  _inglorious_ figure in the following NARRATIVE, viz. Governor
+  _Hamilton_, _De Jeane_ and _Le Mote_, were afterwards taken by the
+  brave Colonel CLARKE, of Virginia, at Fort St. Vincent, and are now
+  confined in irons in a goal in Virginia (by order of the Legislature
+  of that State) as a _retaliation_ for their former _inhuman_
+  treatment of prisoners, who fell into their hands, particularly Mr.
+  DODGE, who has the pleasing consolation of viewing his _savage
+  adversaries_ in a similar predicament with himself when in their
+  power----though it is not in the breast of generous AMERICANS to
+  treat them with equal barbarity.
+
+
+
+
+                                   A
+                              NARRATIVE, &
+
+
+I sometime since left the place of my nativity in Connecticut, and, in
+the year 1770, settled in Sandusky, an Indian village, about half way
+between Pittsburgh and Detroit, where I carried on a very beneficial
+trade with the natives, until the unhappy dispute between Great-Britain
+and America reached those pathless wilds, and roused to war Savages no
+ways interested in it.
+
+In July, 1775, Capt. James Woods called at my house in his way to the
+different indian towns, where he was going to invite them, in the name
+of the Congress, to a treaty to be held at Fort-Pitt. the ensuing fall;
+I attended him to their villages, and the Savages promised him they
+would be there. Capt. Woods also invited me to go with the Indians to
+the treaty, as they were in want of an interpreter, which I readily
+agreed to.
+
+Soon after the departure of Capt. Woods, the Commander of Fort-Detroit
+sent for the Savages in and about Sandusky, and told them that he heard
+they were invited by the Americans to a treaty at Pittsburgh, which they
+told him was true; on which he delivered them a talk to the following
+purport: "That he was their father, and as such he would advise them as
+his own children; that the Colonists who were to meet them at Pittsburgh
+were a bad people; that by the indulgence of their Protector, they had
+grown a numerous and saucy people; that the great King not thinking they
+would have the assurance to oppose his just laws, had kept but few
+troops in America for some years past; that those men being ignorant of
+their incapacity to go through with what they intend, propose to cut off
+the few regulars in this country, and then you Indians, and have all
+America to themselves; and all they want is, under the shew of
+friendship, to get you into their hands as hostages, and there hold you,
+until your nations shall comply with their terms, which if they refuse,
+you will be all massacred. Therefore do not go by any means; but if you
+will join me, and keep them at bay a little while, the King, our father,
+will send large fleets and Armies to our assistance, and we will soon
+subdue them, and have their plantations to ourselves."
+
+This talk so dismayed the Indians, that they came to me and said they
+would not go to the treaty, at the same time telling me what the
+Governor of Detroit had said to them. On this Mr. James Heron and myself
+having the cause of our country at heart, asserted that what the
+Governor had said was false and told them that the Colonists would not
+hurt a hair of their heads, and if they would go to the treaty, that I,
+with Mr. Heron, would be security, and pledge our property, to the
+amount of four thousand pounds, for their safe return. This, with the
+arrival of Mr. Butler with fresh invitations, induced some of them to go
+with me to the treaty.
+
+In the fall I attended a number of them to the treaty, where we were
+politely received by the Commissioners sent by Congress. The council
+commenced; the Indians, who are always fond of fishing in troubled
+water, offered their assistance, which was refused, with a request that
+they would remain in peace, and not take up the hatchet on either side.
+On the whole, these Indians were well pleased with the talk from the
+Congress, and promised to remain quiet.
+
+The Commissioners thinking it proper, sont the Continental belt and talk
+by some of the Chiefs to the Savages who resided about the lakes. These
+Chiefs being obliged to pass Sandusky, in their rout, Mr. John Gibson,
+Agent for Indian affairs requested me to accompany them, and furnish
+them with what they stood in need of; on which I took them home.
+
+On my arrival at the village I found the Savages in confusion, and
+preparing to war, on which I called a Council and rehearsed the
+Continental talk, which with a present of goods to the amount of twenty
+five pounds, quieted them. This I informed Congress of, agreable to
+their request, by express, and that the Governor of Detroit was still
+urging the Indians to war. Soon after this, a party of Savages from the
+neighborhood of the lakes, came to my house on their way to the frontier
+to strike a blow: I asked them the reason they took up the hatchet? They
+replied, that the Governor of Detroit had told them, that the Americans
+were going to murder them all and take their lands but if they would
+join him, they would be able to drive them off, and that he would give
+them twenty dollars a scalp. On this I rehearsed the Continental talk,
+and making them a small present they returned home, believing as I had
+told them, that the Governor was a liar and meant to deceive them.
+
+On this I thought proper to write the Governor of Detroit, what he was
+to expect should he continue to persuade the Indians to take up the
+Hatchet. He was so enraged at the receipt of this letter, that he
+offered one hundred pounds for my scalp or body, he sent out several
+parties to take me without effect, until having spread an evil report of
+me among the indians, on the fifteenth of January, 1776, my house was
+surrounded by about twenty soldiers and savages, who broke into the
+house, made me a prisoner, and then marched me for Detroit.
+
+It was about the dusk of the evening, when, after a fatiguing march, I
+arrived at Detroit, and was carried before Henry Hamilton, late a
+Captain in the fifteenth regiment, but now Governor and Commandant of
+Detroit; he ordered me to close confinement, telling me to spend that
+night in making my peace with GOD, as it was the last night I should
+live; I was then hurried to a loathsome dungeon, ironed and thrown in
+with three criminals, being allowed neither bedding, straw or fire,
+although it was in the depth of winter, and so exceeding cold, that my
+toes were froze before morning.
+
+About ten o'clock the next morning, I was taken out and carried before
+the Governor, who produced a number of letters with my name signed to
+them, and asked me if they were my hand writing? To which I replied they
+were not. He then said, it was a matter of indifference to him whether
+I owned it or not, as he understood that I had been carrying on a
+correspondence with Congress, taking the Savages to their treaties, and
+preventing their taking up the hatchet in favor of his Majesty, to
+defend his crown and dignity that I was a rebel and traitor, and he
+would hang me. I asked him whether he intended to try me by the civil or
+military law, or give me any trial at all? To which be replied, that he
+was not obliged to give any damn'd rebel a trial unless he thought
+proper, and that he would hang every one he caught, and that he would
+begin with me first. I told him if he took my life, to beware of the
+consequence, as he might depend on it that it would be looked into.
+What, says he, do you threaten me you damn'd rebel? I will soon alter
+your tone; here take the damn'd rebel to the dungeon again, and let him
+pray to God to have mercy on his soul, for I will soon fix his body
+between heaven and earth and every scoundrel like him.
+
+I was then redelivered to the hands of Philip De Jeane, who acted in
+the capacity of judge, sheriff and jailor, and carried back to my
+dungeon, where I was soon waited on by the Missionary to read prayers
+with me; but it was so extremely cold, he could not stand it but a few
+minutes at a time. In conversation with him, I told him I thought it
+was very hard to lose my life without a trial, and as I was innocent
+of the charge alledged against me. He said it was very true, but that
+the Governor had charged him not to give me the least hopes of life,
+as he would absolutely hang me.
+
+I remained in this dismal situation three days, when De Jeane came
+and took out one of the criminals who was in the dungeon with me, and
+held a short conference with him, then came and told me, the Governor
+had sent him to tell me to prepare for another world, as I had not
+long to live, and then withdrew. I enquired of the criminal, who was a
+Frenchman, what De Jeane wanted with him? But he would not tell me.
+
+The evening following he told his brother in distress, that De Jeane had
+offered him twenty pounds to hang Mr. Dodge (meaning me) but that he had
+refused unless he had his liberty; De Jeane then said, that we should
+both be shot under the gallows.
+
+Being at last drove almost to despair, I told De Jeane to inform the
+Governor I was readier to die at that time than I should ever be, and
+that I would much rather undergo his sentence, than be tortured in the
+dreadful manner I then was. He returned for answer, that I need not
+hurry them, but prepare myself, as I should not know my time until half
+an hour before I was turned off.
+
+Thus did I languish on in my dungeon, without a friend being allowed to
+visit me, denied the necessaries of life, and must have perished with
+the cold it being in the depth of winter, had not my fellow-prisoners
+spared me a blanket from their scanty stock. Thus denied the least
+comfort in life together with the unjust and savage threatning I
+received every day, brought me so very low, that my inability to answer
+De Jeane's unreasonable questions, with which he daily tormented me
+respecting innocent men, obliged him to notice my situation, and no
+doubt thinking I should die in their hands, they thought proper to
+remove me to the barracks, and ordered a Doctor to attend me. The
+weather had been so extreme cold, and my legs had been bolted in such a
+manner, that they were so benumbed, and the sinews contracted, that I
+had not the least use of them; and the severity of my usage had brought
+on a fever, which had nigh saved them any further trouble.
+
+After I had lain some time ill, and my recovery was despaired of, De
+Jeane called and told me that the Governor had altered his mind with
+respect to executing me, and bid me be of good cheer, as he believed
+the Governor would give me my liberty when I got better; I replied it
+was a matter of indifference to me whether he gave me my liberty or
+not, as I had much rather die than remain at their mercy: On which he
+said, "You may die and be damn'd," and bounced out of the room.
+
+When I had so far recovered as to be able to set up in my bed, my
+nurse being afraid I should inform her husband of her tricks in his
+absence, told the Governor that I was a going to make my escape with a
+party of soldiers, that I was well and could walk as well as she
+could, though at that time my legs were still so cramped and benumbed
+with the irons and cold, that had kingdoms been at stake I could not
+walk.
+
+On this information, De Jeane came and told me to get up and walk to
+the dungeon from whence I came. I told him I was unable: "Crawl then
+you damn'd rebel, or I will make you." I told him he might do as he
+pleased, but I could not stand, much more walk: On this he called a
+party of soldiers, who tossed me into a cart and carried me to the
+dungeon: Here, by the persuasion of the Doctor, who was very kind and
+attentive, I was allowed a bed and not ironed. By his care and the
+weather growing milder, I got rid of my fever and began to walk about
+my dungeon, which was only eight feet square; but even this was a
+pleasure too great for me to enjoy long, for in a few days I was put
+into irons. The weather now growing warm and the place offensive,
+from the filth of the poor fellows I had left there, and who were
+afterwards executed, I relapsed. By persuasion of the Doctor who told
+them unless I had air I should die, a hole about seven inches square
+was cut to let in some air.
+
+I remained ill until June, although the
+Doctor had done all that lay in his power;
+he then let the Governor know, that it
+was impossible for me to recover unless I
+was removed from the dungeon, on which
+he sent De Jeane to inform me, if I would
+give security for my good behavior, that
+he would let me out of prison. Being by
+my usage and fever, reduced to a state of
+despondence, I told him that it was a matter
+of indifference what he did with me, and
+that his absence was better than his company:
+He then published it abroad, and several
+Gentlemen voluntarily entered into two
+thousand pounds security for me, and I once
+more was allowed to breath the fresh air, after
+six months confinement in a loathsome
+dungeon, except eight or nine weeks that I
+lay sick at the barracks.
+
+On my going abroad, I learned that all the property I left in the woods,
+to the amount of fifteen or sixteen hundred pounds, was taken in the
+King's name and divided among the Indians. As I had but little to attend
+to but the recovery of my health, I mended apace. As soon as I could
+walk abroad, Governor Hamilton sent for me and said, he was sorry for my
+misfortunes, and hoped I would think as little as possible of them; that
+I was in a low state, he thought I had best not think of business, or
+think of what I had left, as he would lend me a hand to recover my
+losses. This smooth discourse gave me but little satisfaction for the
+ill usage I had received at his hands; however, I was determined to rest
+as easy as I could, until I had an opportunity of obtaining redress.
+
+As soon as I found myself so far recovered as to be able to do business,
+which was in September, I applied to the Governor to go down the
+country, but he put me off with fine words, a permission to do business
+there, and a promise of his assistance. I now settled my accounts with
+the persons with whom I was connected in trade, and found myself seven
+hundred pounds in debt. My credit being pretty good, I set up a retail
+store, and as many of the inhabitants pitied my case, they all seeming
+willing to spend their money with me. My being master of the different
+Indian languages about Detroit, was also of service to me, so that in a
+short time I paid off all my debts, and began to add to my stock.
+
+In the spring of 1777 I heard there was like to be a good trade at
+Machilimakanac, on which I applied to the Governor, and with a great
+deal of trouble got a pass, went and met with good trade. On my return
+Governor Hamilton by several low arts attempted to pick my cargo, which
+as it would spoil the sale of the remainder, I could not allow. As he
+had no pretence for taking them from me by force, it once more provoked
+him to wrath against me; he greatly retarded my sales by denying me a
+permit to draw my powder out of the magazine; also ordered myself and
+two servants to be ready at a moment's warning to march under Capt. Le
+Mote on a scouting party with Savages: I told him it was against my
+inclination to take up arms against my own flesh and blood, and much
+more so to go with Savages to butcher and scalp defenceless women and
+children, that were not interested in the present dispute: He said it
+was not any of my business whether they were interested in the dispute
+or not; and added if you are not ready when called for, I will fix you.
+Lucky for me he was soon after called down the country, and succeded by
+Capt. Mountpresent as Commander, who ordered Le Mote to strike my name
+out of his books: but my servants with their pay, I lost entirely.
+
+The party of Savages under Le Mote went out with orders not to spare
+man, woman or child. To this cruel mandate even some of the Savages made
+an objection, respecting the butchering women and children, but they
+were told the children would make soldiers, and the women would keep up
+the stock.--Those sons of Britain offered no reward for prisoners, but
+they gave the Indians twenty dollars a scalp, by which means they
+induced the Savages to make the poor inhabitants, who they had torn from
+their peaceable homes, carry their baggage until within a short distance
+of the fort, where in cold blood, they murdered them, and delivered
+their green scalps in a few hours after to those British Barbarians, who
+on the first yell of the Savages, flew to meet and hug them to their
+breasts reeking with the blood of innocence, and shewed them every mark
+of joy and approbation, by firing of cannon &c.
+
+One of these parties returning with a number of woman and children's
+scalps, and three prisoners, they were met by the Commander of the
+fort, and after usual demonstrations of joy delivered their scalps, for
+which they were paid; the Indians then made the Commandant a present of
+two of the prisoners, reserving the third as a sacrifice to the manes of
+one of them that had fell in the expedition. Being shocked at the idea
+of one of my fellow-creatures being tortured and burnt alive by those
+inhuman Savages, I sought out the Indian who had lost his relative, and
+to whom, according to the Indian custom, this unhappy man belonged; I
+found him, took him home with me, and by the assistance of some of my
+friends and twentyfive pounds worth of goods, I persuaded the inhuman
+wretch to sell his life to me. As the rest of the gang had taken the
+prisoner about two leagues distance, and were making merry over him, we
+were obliged to lay a scheme to deliver him from their hands, which we
+did in the following manner, it being midnight and very dark the Indian,
+myself and two servants crossed the river in a batteaux to where they
+were carousing around this unhappy victim. The Indian then went to his
+companion, and under a pretence of taking the prisoner out to answer a
+call of nature, delivered him to me, who lay at some distance, and I
+carried him to the batteaux. As soon as he found himself in the hands of
+his deliverer, his transport was too great for his tender frame; three
+different times he sunk lifeless in my arms, and as often by the help
+of water, the only remedy at hand, I prevented his going to the land of
+spirits in a transport of joy. None but those who have experienced it,
+can have an idea of the thoughts that must have agitated the breast of a
+man, who but a few minutes before saw himself surronnded by Savages,
+whose dismal yell, and frightful figures, heightened by the glare of a
+large fire in a dismal wood, which must have harrowed up the soul of an
+uninterested bystander, much more one who knew that very fire was
+prepared for his execution, and that every moment the executioner was
+expected to arrive.--The executioner arrives; he advances towards him;
+he losens this unhappy victim from the tree to which he was bound, no
+doubt as this young man imagined to be led to the stake; but as it were
+in an instant, he finds himself in the hands of his deliverer and
+fellow-countryman. This, as I said before was too much for him to bear;
+however I got his almost lifeless corpse to my house, where I kept him
+hid. The Indian, according to our agrement in an hour or two after I was
+gone, returned seemingly much fatigued, and told his fellow Savages who
+were impatiently waiting to begin their brutal sacrifice, that the
+prisoner had escaped, and that he had in vain pursued him. Some time
+after this I found an opportunity and made an agrement with the Captain
+of a vessel going to Michilimakanac, to take my unhappy inmate with him,
+but one of my servants being tempted, by a large reward that was offered
+for retaking the above prisoner, informed De Jeane, that he was hid in
+my house, on which my habitation was soon surrounded by a party of
+soldiers under the command of said De Jeane, and myself, the young man
+and four servants were made prisoners, and having demanded my keys,
+which I delivered, we were hurried to goal and confined in different
+rooms. Here this unhappy young fellow, in high expectations of seeing
+his friends, was once more plunged into the horrors of imprisonment.
+
+  [Illustration: REPRESENTATION of the Indian Manner
+                   of burning an English Prisoner.]
+
+I was sent for and carried before the Commandant, where, on being
+examined who was the person in my house, I frankly told him it was a
+young man whom I had bought of the Indians when they were going to burn
+him, and that I meant to send him to Canada to be out of the way of the
+Savages, but De Jeane, like other men of bad principles, thinking no man
+could do a good action without sinister views, said that he believed I
+had purchased him to serve my own ends, and that he would find them out,
+which the Commandant ordered him to do as soon as possible, and I was
+ordered to prison.
+
+De Jeane then took my servant, who was his informant, ironed him, put
+him in the dungeon, and after keeping him three days on bread and water,
+the lad almost frightened out of his senses, sent for De Jeane, and told
+him that the day before I was taken up I had wrote several letters, and
+on his bringing a candle to seal them, that I said, if he told any one
+that I was writing to Pitsburg, that I would blow his brains out. This
+suiting De Jeane's purpose, he made the lad swear to it, and then set
+him with the rest of my servants at liberty.
+
+I was now once more called before the Commandant, who told me he
+understood I was going to send an express to his Majesty's enemies, in
+consequence of which he had taken an inventory of my effects, and meant
+to send me to Canada. I told him he was misinformed: He then taxes me
+with what De Jeane had forced from my servant; asked me where I was
+writing the day before I was taken? I told him to my correspondents in
+Montreal; and luckily for me a neighbor of mine, having been at my
+house, was produced, who declared the truth of what I said, and that I
+being hurried, had given him the letters to carry on board the vessel.
+This with some other false accusations being cleared up, I was once more
+released on giving fresh security.
+
+Though myself and servants were, for want of a pretence for detaining
+us, set at liberty, it was not so with the unfortunate young man whom
+I had purchased from the Indian; he still remained in prison, daily
+tormented with the threats of De Jeane, that he would deliver him to the
+Indians, which so preyed on his spirits, that in a short time it threw
+him into a fever. I then applied to Capt Montpresent, the Commandant,
+who gave me permission, and I removed him to sick quarters, where
+I hired Jacob Pue, of Virginia, his fellow prisoner, to attend him. I
+also, when leisure would permit, attended him myself; but De Jeane, who
+still haunted him, had so great an effect on him, that one day when I
+visited him, he called me to his bedside and said to me, that De Jeane
+had just left him, that he told him to make haste and get well, as the
+Indians were waiting for him. Pray Sir, (said the young man to De Jeane)
+for GOD's sake try to keep me from the Indians, for if they get me they
+will burn me. Keep you from them, said De Jeane, you damn'd rebel you
+deserve to be burned, and all your damn'd countrymen with you, for you
+need not think Dodge can save you; General Hamilton is now come up, and
+he will fix you all. I tried to comfort him, and told him to be of good
+courage: Oh! replied he. I am almost distracted with the idea of being
+burnt by the Savages; I had much rather die where I am, than be
+delivered into the hands of those horrid wretches, from whom I so lately
+by your hands escaped, the recollection of which, makes me shudder with
+horror. He could say no more; he sunk under it, and in a few hours
+after, death, more kind than his cruel tormentors, released him from his
+troubles. I paid the last tribute to this my unhappy Countryman, and had
+his corpse decently interred, attended by the Missionary and most of the
+principal Merchants of the town.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+As Hamilton was arrived, I had every thing to expect that his malice
+could invent, more especially as De Jeane, to whom his ear was always
+open, had told him (as I was informed) all and more than what had
+happened during his absence. About a month after the death of the
+unhappy young man above related, I had occasion for some of my powder
+out of the magazine: I wrote an order to the conductor, according to
+custom and waited on the Governor to have it signed; on presenting it to
+him, he looked at it, and then looked at me with a sarcastic smile said,
+It is powder you want, you damn'd rascal is it? At the same time
+tearing my order and throwing it in my face: You have behaved yourself
+very well, have you not? After my granting you your life, you would not
+go with Le Mote, would you not? says, he and starting up in a great
+passion as though he would strike me, put himself between me and the
+door. What, says he, you have a damn'd deal of influence with the
+Indians; you can purchase prisonners without my approbation can you? you
+damn'd rascal. Sir, said I, I am no rascal; not a word out of your
+mouth, says Hamilton, go about your business and take care of me or I
+will fix you: I replied it had always been my study to take care of him;
+not a word, says he, go about your business, and bless your stars I was
+not here instead of Capt. Montpresent, for I would have fixed you, you
+damn'd scoundrel. Here I took my leave, went home and determined to
+think as little of Mr. Hamilton and his usage as possible, until I had
+an opportunity of getting redress.
+
+Notwithstanding the hatred of Hamilton and De Jeane; I spent the
+forepart of the winter very happily, until the 25th of Jan. 1778, when
+several Merchants of the town got permission to go to Sandusky to trade,
+and as they proposed encamping about two leagues from the town, myself
+and several others in a friendly manner, proposed and did accompany them
+in our sleighs to their first stage; but on our return, I being a head,
+was challenged by De Jeane, at the head of thirty or forty soldiers, by
+asking who came there? To which I replied, John Dodge; he then ordered
+the soldiers to seize me and the two gentlemen in the sleigh with me,
+and forced us to return to the encampment we had just left, where he
+seized the whole of the gentlemen who were going by permission to
+Sandusky, with their goods, sleighs, &c. and carried the whole of us the
+next morning back to the fort, and charged us with sending out goods to
+supply (as he politely termed it) the rebels.
+
+After being detained three days in prison I was taken to De Jeane's
+house to see my papers, books, desk, &c. examined. They broke open my
+desk pretending to have lost the key. On searching, they could not find
+any thing worth their notice, or what they expected to find. De Jeane
+then gave me my keys, and told me to send for my desk and take care of
+myself as he would watch me: I told him, as he had taken it from my home
+and broke it, he should mend it and send it home before I would receive
+it: Stop a little said he, I will speak to the Governor and fix you yet
+if I can; he then gave me into the case of the guard, and ordered me to
+goal. About the fifth day after this, not hearing any thing from him, I
+sent for my violin, and was diverting myself, when Governor Hamilton
+passed by, and inquired who was playing on the violin, to which the
+Corporal of the guard answer'd it was me. The next day De Jeane waited
+on me with a Blacksmith, who soon clapped on a pair of hand-bolts; and
+now, says De Jeane, I have fixed you, you may play the violin until you
+are tired; I asked him what I had done to be treated thus; for that you
+must apply to the Governor said he, for it is his pleasure that you are
+so: He then threatened to put on my leg bolts; on which I told him I did
+not value his irons, but if he kept me prisoner, I should look to him
+for my property, (about 3000l.) Yes, says he, we will fix you and your
+property too, and then left me. About six days after, I was taken to my
+own house, where two English and two Frenchmen, by order of the
+Governor, took an inventor of my goods, and soon after sold the whole at
+vendue, for about 1900l. New-York currency. Thus being a second time
+robbed of my property, I lay a prisoner as contented as possible,
+without any thing material happening until the first of May.
+
+On the first of May 1778, I was put on board a vessel to go down
+to Quebec, and by some of my friends furnished with provision and
+necessaries for the voyage; but of these I was robbed by De Jeane, and
+had it not been for some gentlemen, passengers in the same vessel, I
+must have suffered with hunger. On the first of June I arrived at
+Quebec, where I was conducted to Mr. Printices the Provost Marshal! Ha!
+ha! says he, Mr. Dodge, are you here? I have often been told you were a
+damn'd rascal doing all you could against government. It is a pity
+Governor Hamilton did not hang you when he was about it, as he would
+have saved government a great deal of trouble. From hence I was
+conducted on board the prison ship Mariah, with a number of Farmers,
+taken off their plantations by the Savages.
+
+Two days after I was put on board the prison ship, we were visited by
+Mr. Murray, Commissary of Prisoners, to whom I gave an account of my
+capture and ill usage; he told me, he would speak to the General, and
+give me an answer. Two days after, he came on board, and told me, as it
+was very difficult times, I could not have a hearing at present; I told
+him I wanted nothing but what the English constitution allowed, and if
+I could not get that in Quebec, I would apply to England; to which he
+replied I had better be easy, for if I did not, he would put me in irons
+again.
+
+I remained on board the prison ship until the begining of August, when
+Mr. Murray came on board, and informed me that I was not to go with the
+prisoners; but if I would give my parole, I should be allowed the
+liberty of Quebec. I asked him the occasion I could not be sent with the
+other prisoners; he replied it was the Governor's orders: I asked him if
+I was to be allowed any support; he said, not any. I told him it was
+very hard to be dragged from my house, robbed of my property, deprived
+of my liberty, sent 1200. miles in irons, and still be held a prisoner
+in the town of Quebec, without any allowance for support: All my
+applications were in vain, I was set on shore under parole the fourth of
+August, and the ship sailed with the other prisoners soon after.
+
+The cause of my detention, as I was afterwards told by Mr. Murray, was,
+that Governor Hamilton, of Detroit, had wrote the General not to send
+me round with the other prisoners; for if I got into the United States,
+he knew I would come immediately upon him, and as I knew the country,
+was well acquainted with the languages of the different Indians about
+the lakes, and had great influence among them, should be the means of
+their losing the fort, which would be much against the crown.
+
+On my enlargement, I soon got acquainted with a number of gentlemen, who
+were friends to the United States, and the cause in which they were
+engaged. Some days after going on shore, I fell in company with a Mr.
+Jones, who happened at that time to be reading a letter sent by General
+Montgomery, while he lay before Quebec, to Gov. Carlton, and on
+concluding it said he hoped General Montgomery was in hell, and that all
+the rebels would soon be with him; to this I made a reply, words ensued,
+and then blows; he drew on me, but I parried his thrust with my cane, so
+that I only got a small wound on my knee: He then made a complaint and I
+was sent for by the General, who threatened to put me in confinement, if
+I did not find security; this I soon found, and bonds were given for me
+for two months: at the end of which, as they neglected renewing them
+and left me without parole or security, I hired an Indian guide, and on
+the ninth of Oct I quitted Quebec. After a fatiguing march through the
+woods, on the 20th of Nov. I arrived at Boston, where I was kindly
+received and politely treated by General Gates who supplied my wants and
+forwarded to me to his Excellency, General Washington; I, waited on him,
+was politely received and sent on to Congress, having some matters
+relating to Canada, worthy of their hearing.
+
+Had the love of my country no ways prompted me to act against the
+tyranny of Britain. I leave it to the world to judge whether I have not
+a right to revolt from under the dominion of such tyrants and exert
+every faculty God has given me to seek satisfaction for the ill usage I
+received than if I had ten thousand lives, and was sure to lose them
+all: I think should I not attempt to gain satisfaction I should deserve
+to be a slave the remainder of my life.
+
+
+                                FINIS
+
+                            [Illustration]
+
+
+
+
+                                NOTES
+
+
+[1] Almon's _Remembrancer_, 1779.
+
+[2] First edition, Philadelphia, 1779, and second edition, Danvers,
+Massachusetts, 1780; also printed in _Connecticut Gazette and Universal
+Intelligencer_, February 2, 1780.
+
+[3] _Virginia State Papers_, 1, 321.
+
+[4] _Dodge Genealogy_, page 137. _American Ancestry_, 6, 192. The sketch
+in _The Magazine of Western History_, 4, 282, contains many errors.
+
+[5] _Wayne County Records_, B. 9, 91.
+
+[6] If this date is correct it would appear that Dodge was in Detroit
+before he was brought there as a captive.
+
+[7] Manuscript, British Museum.
+
+[8] For a history of the Montour family see Egle's _Notes and Queries_,
+3rd series, 1, 118. John Montour was arrested and confined in Detroit in
+1778. See _Michigan Historical Society Collections_, 9, 434.
+
+[9] _Michigan Historical Society Collections_, 9, 512.
+
+[10] _Fergus Historical Series_, number 31, page 62. See also number 33,
+pages 159, 182, 183, 209; also _Calendar of Virginia State Papers_, 1,
+367.
+
+[11] _American State Papers_, _Public Lands_, Volume 1, (Gales and
+Seaton), 106, 110. A letter from John Rice Jones on file in the Interior
+Department, dated January 18, 1800, states that Dodge and his wife were
+both dead.
+
+[12] Letter from Henry L. Caldwell to Louise M. Dalton, Missouri
+Historical Society, dated December 4, 1906. Mr. Caldwell died April 11,
+1907, a very old man. Miss Dalton was secretary of the Missouri
+Historical Society and died in June of the same year.
+
+[13] A little information is obtained from the Ste. Genevieve records,
+now in possession of the Missouri Historical Society, and a letter of
+John Rice Jones now on file in the Interior Department at Washington.
+The Jones letter is dated January 18, 1800, and in it he says that John
+Dodge was married somewhere in Virginia and that both Dodge and his wife
+are dead. From the other records it appears that the wife's name was
+Ann.
+
+[14] Wood was a Revolutionary soldier and officer of considerable
+importance, and was elected Governor of Virginia, serving from December
+1, 1796, till December 1, 1799. He died July 16, 1813. _American
+Archives_, 4th Series, Volume 4, 110-115. See also same series, Volume
+2, 1209, 1240. Wood's _Journal_ is in _The Revolution on the Upper
+Ohio_, page 34. _Old Westmoreland_, 18. _American Archives_, 4th Series,
+Volume 3, 1542.
+
+
+
+
+                                INDEX
+
+
+  Antanya, Michael, assists Dodge, 15.
+
+
+  Beaver Creek (Bever Criek), 9.
+
+  Blair, Archibald, 23.
+
+  Boston, visited by Dodge, 7, 15;
+    Dodge meets General Gage there, 56.
+
+  Boyle, Philip, letter to, 15.
+
+  Butler, Mr., aids Dodge in inducing Indians to make treaty, 31.
+
+  Caldwell, Henry L., grandson of Israel Dodge, 14.
+
+  Canada, Dodge proposes to invade, 8.
+
+  Carleton, Sir Guy, Governor in Chief of Michigan Territory, 19;
+    Mr. Jones reads letter from, 55.
+
+  Carlisle (Pennsylvania), Israel Dodge marries Ann Hunter at, 14.
+
+  Clark, Gen. George Rogers, of Virginia,
+    captures Lieut.-Gov. Hamilton, 13;
+    takes possession of the Western Illinois country, 17;
+    letters to Congress considered by board, 19.
+
+  Clark, Mr., Dodge's letter to Congress referred to, 19.
+
+  Congress, Dodge visits, 7, 56;
+    writes letter to, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13;
+    reports adversely to suggestions in letter, 13;
+    Dodge writes second letter to, 17, 18;
+    Committee of, report on the John Dodge report, 19;
+    Commissioners of, treat with Indians, 32;
+    Dodge informs, of council with Indians at Sandusky, 32.
+
+  Congressional Board, the,
+    reports on letters of Colonel Clark and others relating to Hamilton,
+          Dejean and Lamothe, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23;
+    recommends punishment to be inflicted upon these prisoners, 23.
+
+  Connecticut, birthplace of Dodge 15;
+    Dodge leaves, 29.
+
+  Continental talk, 32, 33.
+
+
+  Dejean, Philip, prisoner of war, 13;
+    Justice of the Peace for Detroit, 19;
+    prisoner of war, 19;
+    his cruel treatment of Dodge and other prisoners, 20, 21, 35, 36,
+          37, 38, 39, 47, 48;
+    captured by Colonel Clark of Virginia at Fort St. Vincent
+          (Vincennes), 28;
+    imprisons Dodge a second time, 45;
+    informs Hamilton concerning Dodge, 48;
+    seizes Dodge and companions near Sandusky, 51;
+    examines Dodge's papers, 51.
+
+  Detroit, John Dodge locates there, 6;
+    refers in letter to its garrison, 9;
+    Governor of, bribes savages, 9;
+    proposes to take by force, 10;
+    visits, 15.
+
+  Dodge, Henry, son of Israel Dodge, 14;
+    born October 12, 1872, 14;
+    first Governor of Wisconsin Territory, 14.
+
+  Dodge, Ann Hunter, wife of Israel Dodge, 14.
+
+  Dodge, Israel, brother of John Dodge, 6;
+    commissioned as lieutenant, 14.
+
+  Dodge, John, birth, 6;
+    parentage, 6;
+    early life as a trader, 6;
+    purchases land, 6;
+    confined in jail, 7;
+    appointed Indian Agent by Virginia, 14;
+    lays claim to western lands, 14;
+    patents issued to his heirs, 14;
+    date of death, 14;
+    place of burial, 14;
+    holds commission as colonel, 14;
+    places visited in his travels, 15;
+    writes second letter to Congress, 16, 17;
+    acts as interpreter for Captain Wood, 29;
+    makes present to Indians, 32, 33;
+    writes to Hamilton, 33;
+    taken prisoner by Indians at instigation of Hamilton, 33;
+    taken to Detroit, 33;
+    condemned to death, 34, 35;
+    his suffering and sickness in prison, 34, 35, 36, 37, 38;
+    released from prison, 39;
+    his property confiscated, 40;
+    engages in mercantile business, 41;
+    rescues prisoner, 43, 44;
+    taken captive by Dejean, 45;
+    called before Commandant Mountpresent, 46;
+    ordered to prison, 46;
+    released, 47;
+    threatened by Hamilton, 50;
+    goes to Sandusky, 51;
+    seized by Dejean, 51;
+    cast into goal, 52;
+    his property confiscated second time, 52;
+    brought before Mr. Printices, Provost Marshal at Quebec, 53;
+    put on board prison ship _Mariah_, 53;
+    visited by Mr. Murray, Commissary of Prisoners, 53;
+    paroled, 54;
+    encounter with Mr. Jones, 55;
+    forced to give bonds, 55;
+    leaves Quebec, 56;
+    arrives at Boston, 56;
+    sent by Gates to General Washington, 56;
+    appears before Congress, 56.
+
+  Dodge, John, Sr., father of John Dodge, 6.
+
+  Dodge, Lydia Rogers, wife of John Dodge, 6.
+
+  Dodge Narrative, time and place, 5;
+    importance, 5;
+    reprints, 5.
+
+
+  Edgar, John;
+    Dodge attempts to carry off slaves of, 15;
+    old friend of Dodge, 15;
+    arrested and confined at Detroit, 15, 16;
+    witness for Dodge, 16.
+
+
+  Fort Pitt, (Pittsburg), Dodge's visit to, 8;
+    conference with Indians at, 16;
+    speech of Shengenaba at, 16.
+
+
+  Gates, General, Dodge visits at Boston, 56.
+
+  Gibson, John, agent for Indian affairs, 32.
+
+
+  Hamilton, Lieut. Gov. Henry,
+    cruelties and irregularities of his rule in Detroit, 5;
+    indicted for murder, 5;
+    confined in irons, 6;
+    sends Dodge as prisoner to Quebec, 7;
+    bribes savages, 9;
+    captured by Gen. George Rogers Clark, 13;
+    released from prison and reinstated as lieutenant governor of
+          Canada, 14;
+    letters of Colonel Clark relating to, 19;
+    incites Indians to perpetrate cruelties, 20;
+    Committee's report as to his treatment of John Dodge, 20, 21;
+    gives standing reward for scalps, 21, 32;
+    capture by Colonel Clark at Fort St. Vincent (Vincennes), 28;
+    dissuades Indians from assembling at Fort Pitt, 30, 31;
+    Dodge writes letter to, 33;
+    throws Dodge into prison at Detroit, 34;
+    advises Dodge not to try to obtain redress, 40;
+    orders Dodge to march with scouting party of savages, 41;
+    threatens Dodge, 42, 50;
+    succeeded by Captain Mountpresent, 42;
+    returns to Detroit, 49;
+    orders Dodge detained at Quebec, 54, 55.
+
+  Harman papers, their reference to Dodge, 15.
+
+  Henry, Moses;
+    Henry Dodge, his namesake, 14;
+    his bravery at Vincennes, 14, 15.
+
+  Henry, Patrick, commissions Dodge as Colonel, 14.
+
+  Heron, James, aids Dodge in inducing Indians to make treaty, 31.
+
+
+  Illinois (Islianoy) Country, the,
+    Dodge refers to it in letter to Congress, 17, 18;
+    effect of its occupancy by troops under Col. Clark, 17, 18.
+
+  Indians, bribed by Hamilton, 9;
+    offered standing reward for scalps, 21;
+    invited by Capt. James Wood to a treaty at Fort Pitt, 16, 29;
+    dissuaded by Hamilton from assembling at Fort Pitt, 29, 30;
+    persuaded by argument of Dodge and Heron, 31;
+    make treaty with Commissioners of Congress, 32;
+    their cruelty to prisoners, 42, 43, 44.
+
+
+  Jones, John Rice, letter from, 15.
+
+  Jones, Mr., in company with Dodge, 55.
+
+
+  Kaskaskia, Dodge located there as Indian Agent, 14;
+    visits, 15;
+    writes letter from, 15.
+
+  Kichoga, 9.
+
+
+  Lafleur, Joseph Poupard, sells land to Dodge, 6.
+
+  Lamothe, William (Le Mote), prisoner of war, 13, 19;
+    Captain of Volunteers, 19;
+    captain of volunteer scalping party of Indians and whites, 20;
+    his capture by Col. Clark, of Virginia at Fort St. Vincent
+          (Vincennes), 28;
+    commands scouting Indians, 41, 42.
+
+
+  Mackinac, 7.
+
+  _Mariah_, prison ship, Dodge confined on, 53.
+
+  McIntosh, General, marches from Beaver Creek, 9;
+    Dodge censures in letter to Congress, 11.
+
+  Michilimackinac, Dodge trades at, 41;
+    arranges to send rescued prisoner there, 45.
+
+  Missouri Historical Society, references to Dodge, 15.
+
+  Montgomery, General, Dodge speaks in his defense, 55.
+
+  Montour, John, letter to from Dodge, 8.
+
+  Mountpresent, Capt., 42, 47, 50.
+
+  Morgan, Col., his arrival at Pittsburg, 12;
+    sends message to the Indian (Endian) Nations, 12.
+
+  Murray, Mr., Commissary of Prisoners, visits Dodge, 53;
+    informs Dodge that he is not to go with prisoners, 54.
+
+
+  New Orleans, 15.
+
+  New York, visited by Dodge, 15.
+
+
+  Ohio District, John Dodge in, 6.
+
+
+  Patridge, Mr., Dodge's letter to Congress referred to, 19.
+
+  Philadelphia, visited by Dodge, 15.
+
+  Piankeshaw Indians, 15.
+
+  Pittsburg (Fort Pitt), Dodge visits, 15.
+
+  Pontiac, his son Shegenaba speaks at Fort Pitt, 16, 17.
+
+  Presque Isle (Preskeele), 9.
+
+  Printice, Mr., Provost Marshal of Quebec, 53.
+
+  Pue, Jacob, of Virginia, hired to attend fellow prisoner, 47.
+
+
+  Quebec, John Dodge sent as prisoner to, 7, 53;
+    escapes, 7;
+    visited by Dodge, 15.
+
+
+  Sandusky (Ohio), Dodge locates there as a trader, 6, 29;
+    visits, 15;
+    disturbed by Revolutionary War, 29;
+    Savages hostile in, 32.
+
+  Shawnee Indians, 16.
+
+  Shegenaba, son of Pontiac, speech at Fort Pitt, 16, 17.
+
+  Ste Genevieve (Mo.), Dodge buried at, 14;
+    Dodge visits, 15.
+
+  Sugar Creek (Shugar Criek), 9.
+
+
+  Tanisee River, the,
+    Hamilton appoints council of Indians to meet at the mouth of, 20.
+
+  Tucker, William, has negotiations with John Dodge, 6.
+
+
+  Vincennes (Ind.), George Rogers Clark at, 13;
+    captured by Gov. Hamilton, 14;
+    visited by Dodge, 16;
+    Hamilton, Dejean, and Lamothe taken prisoners at, 28.
+
+  Virginia, Council of,
+    letters and narratives of Dodge read by members of, 13;
+    recommends the punishment of Henry Hamilton, Philip Dejean and
+          Wm. La Mothe, 13;
+    expenses in connection with the Illinois country, 17.
+
+
+  Washington, Gen. George, Dodge meets him, 7, 56.
+
+  Williamsburg  (Va.),  Hamilton taken to by Clark, 13.
+
+  Wolcot, Mr., Dodge's letter to Congress referred to, 19.
+
+  Wood, James, appointed to command expedition against the Shawnee, 16;
+    deputed to invite Western Indians to a treaty at Fort Pitt, 16, 29;
+    his fatigues, difficulties and dangers, 16;
+    his compensation, 16;
+    meeting with the Indians, 16;
+    calls at the house of Dodge, 29.
+
+
+
+
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+<h2>THE DODGE NARRATIVE, 1780<br />
+<small>FACSIMILE REPRINT</small></h2>
+
+
+<hr style="width: 65%;" />
+<h5><i>Sixty-three copies printed<br />
+sixty being for sale</i></h5>
+
+
+<hr style="width: 65%;" />
+<h2>NARRATIVE<br />
+<small>OF</small><br />
+<big>M<sup>R.</sup> JOHN DODGE</big><br />
+<small>DURING HIS CAPTIVITY</small><br />
+<small>AT DETROIT</small></h2>
+
+<h5>REPRODUCED IN FACSIMILE FROM THE<br />
+SECOND EDITION OF 1780</h5>
+
+<h4><small>WITH AN INTRODUCTORY NOTE</small><br />
+<small>BY</small><br />
+<big>CLARENCE MONROE BURTON</big></h4>
+
+<div class="figcenter" style="width: 78px;">
+<img src="images/i003.png" width="78" height="153" alt="" title="" />
+</div>
+
+<h4>CEDAR RAPIDS, IOWA<br />
+THE TORCH PRESS<br />
+NINETEEN HUNDRED NINE</h4>
+
+
+
+<hr style="width: 65%;" />
+<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_5" id="Page_5">[Pg 5]</a></span></p>
+<h2>THE DODGE NARRATIVE</h2>
+
+
+<div class="figleft" style="width: 200px;">
+<img src="images/i005.png" width="200" height="202" alt="T" title="T" />
+</div><p class="dropcap">he narrative of John Dodge is one of the records of frontier life
+during the period of the American Revolution that displays the intense
+feeling of hatred and unfairness evinced by the British soldiers to the
+American rebels. It was written and published during the time of the
+greatest excitement in the West&mdash;the scene of the Narrative&mdash;and is
+historically valuable because of being contemporary with the events in
+question.</p>
+
+<p>It was considered of great importance at the time of its first
+appearance, having been at once reprinted in England<a name="FNanchor_1_1" id="FNanchor_1_1"></a><a href="#Footnote_1_1" class="fnanchor">[1]</a> and passed
+through at least three editions in America.<a name="FNanchor_2_2" id="FNanchor_2_2"></a><a href="#Footnote_2_2" class="fnanchor">[2]</a></p>
+
+<p>In other writings published in England in 1779, appear the first public
+notice of the cruelties and gross irregularities in the administration
+of justice in Detroit under the rule of Lieutenant Governor Henry
+Hamilton, and the presentment of Hamilton by the grand jury of Montreal
+for murder in the execution of a Frenchman convicted of stealing. From
+the Narrative were taken the charges made against Hamilton, when he was
+<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_6" id="Page_6">[Pg 6]</a></span>
+a prisoner in Williamsburg, in consequence of which he was confined in
+irons and barely escaped a more serious, and perhaps even a capital
+punishment.<a name="FNanchor_3_3" id="FNanchor_3_3"></a><a href="#Footnote_3_3" class="fnanchor">[3]</a> But little at the present time can be ascertained of
+Dodge. He was born in Connecticut, July 12, 1751, and was the son of
+John Dodge and his wife, Lydia Rogers.<a name="FNanchor_4_4" id="FNanchor_4_4"></a><a href="#Footnote_4_4" class="fnanchor">[4]</a> John Dodge, the father, was a
+Baptist minister by profession and a blacksmith by trade. His son John
+was one of a numerous family of children. His brother Israel, who was
+with him in the West, was nine years his junior, having been born
+September 3, 1760. Before John had reached his nineteenth year he had
+wandered into the northern part of the Ohio district and had entered
+into business as a trader in Sandusky. He was familiar with the Indian
+language used in his neighborhood and frequently acted as interpreter.</p>
+
+<p>Many of the events of his life from this time, are contained in his
+Narrative and it is needless to repeat them here, but mention might be
+made of other acts of his and records pertaining to him, of which he
+makes no mention. On the fourth day of April, 1776, Dodge, with William
+Tucker, purchased a house and lot in Detroit, from Joseph Poupard
+Lafleur, for 3,000 livres, and a few days later Tucker agreed to repay
+Dodge whatever sums he had paid for this house if Dodge "went down the
+country," as he then contemplated.<a name="FNanchor_5_5" id="FNanchor_5_5"></a><a href="#Footnote_5_5" class="fnanchor">[5]</a> Dodge did not go "down the
+country," but remained in Detroit and sold his interest in the land to
+William Tucker July 6, 1777. In this deed Dodge is described as "a
+<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_7" id="Page_7">[Pg 7]</a></span>
+trader of Detroit," and it is stated that he bought the house and lot
+of Lafleur June 7, 1774.<a name="FNanchor_6_6" id="FNanchor_6_6"></a><a href="#Footnote_6_6" class="fnanchor">[6]</a> His Narrative does not agree with the
+records in all cases, for he says he was confined in jail from January
+to July, 1776, in daily expectation of death, while the records show
+that he purchased this house and lot during this period. The story of
+the rescue of a prisoner from the Indians, related in his Narrative, is
+contained in the report of the Virginia Council of June 16, 1779.
+Sometimes at liberty, engaged in trading, and sometimes confined in jail
+as a rebel, he remained in Detroit and Mackinac till May, 1778, when he
+was sent down to Quebec, at which place he arrived on the first day of
+June.</p>
+
+<p>In the reports of rebel prisoners at Quebec in June and July, 1778, are
+three entries referring to Dodge as follows: "John Dodge, 24 years old,
+from Connecticut, a trader settled at Detroit for seven years, sent down
+by Lieutenant Governor Hamilton. His commercial effects at Detroit.
+Taken up on suspicion of having been in arms with the rebels."<a name="FNanchor_7_7" id="FNanchor_7_7"></a><a href="#Footnote_7_7" class="fnanchor">[7]</a> He
+remained in Quebec until the ninth day of the following October when he
+escaped, going first to Boston and subsequently to General Washington. Dodge
+does not state where or when he met Washington, but as the General was in
+attendance at Congress from December 21, 1778, until some time in the following
+January, he probably met him at Philadelphia. Dodge says he visited Congress
+"having some matters relating to Canada worthy their hearing." This related
+to the "certain expedition" referred to by Washington in his letter
+<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_8" id="Page_8">[Pg 8]</a></span>
+of December 29th, a proposition to invade Canada. Dodge was at Fort Pitt
+in the early part of January, 1779, and from that port wrote a letter to
+John Montour.<a name="FNanchor_8_8" id="FNanchor_8_8"></a><a href="#Footnote_8_8" class="fnanchor">[8]</a>
+There is no record of Dodge's appearance before Congress, but he wrote
+a letter on the subject, to Congress, as follows:</p>
+
+<div class="blockquot"><p>Honorable Congress</p>
+
+<p style='text-align:right'>Pitsburg Jeneary 25 1779&mdash;</p>
+
+<p>as I have Ben one of the grateest Suferers that is now in the united
+States of Ameraca Both in Person and Property</p>
+
+<p>I have Sufferd Every thing But Death Robd Plundered of Every far thing
+that I was master of But loock upon it as an honour that I have Suffard
+in so just a Cause as we are now Engagd in and very happy that I have
+made my Escape from the Enemi after Being Prisener two years and nine
+months I think it my Duty as I am now in the Service of the united
+States to Enform your honnours of the Proceedings and Carriings on in
+the Department whare I am&mdash;it Both greaves and Shagrans me to the hart
+to Se matters so Ill Conduckted as theay are in this Department&mdash;it is
+very natural for Every one that has the Cause of his Contry at hart to
+Enquire into the reason of our grevences&mdash;is not one the farmers Being
+Drove of thair Plantation on our fronteers By the Saveges&mdash;Could theay
+remaind on thair Plantations theay Could have Ben very Sarvesable in
+Suppliing our main army in Provisions in Stead of that the Poor mifortonate
+Peopel are obleged to retreet into the thick Setled Contry and I may Say live
+almost upon the Charrity of the Contry which of consequence must Distress
+the hole Contry for Provisions we will Enquire why those Saveges are our
+<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_9" id="Page_9">[Pg 9]</a></span>
+Enemies theay are Bribd By the British to take up the hachet against us
+whare is thair rendevous Detroit a place Stockaded in with Cedar Pickets
+and Eighty Soldiers to gard it But it is Strong Enough to keep a large
+Quantity of goods in so the British Can and Do give near a millian
+Presents to Bribe the Saveges to fall upon our fronteers and Distress
+our hole Contry&mdash;But we will Suppose that Place to Be Esily taken
+which it raly is if matters ware Conducted as theay ought to Be&mdash;But
+we will Say that the Publick has Ben at grate Expence for two years Past
+and thare is nothing Done I may Say nothing thare is a fort Bult at
+Bever Criek and one at tuskerowayes which if theay are not rainforst
+with men and Provisions very Spedily we have no reason to think But
+theay will fall into the hands of the Enemi in the Spring now had one of
+those forts Ben Bult at Preskeele or Kichoga or any whare on the lake
+side the men might have Ben Employed this winter in Boulding of Boats or
+gundelows So that in the Spring we Could Command the lakes which if we
+Dont we Cant keep Detroit if we take it or if the winter had Seveir we
+Could have gone on the ice and taken Detroit and vessels to and with
+half the men that it would have taken at any other Season of the year
+for the vessels would Be all froze up But in Stead of that theay are
+Bult in an Endian Contry whare that all Supplies may Be very Esily Cut
+of and give the Saveges Susspicon that we are a going to Conker them and
+not our Enemi the English and very good right theay have after thare has
+Ben such threats throw out to them as thare has we hant the reason But
+to Expect then all against us Before general McIntosh marcht from Bever
+Criek the governer of Detroit Put up a few of the lower Sort of Saveges By
+Bribing them to Send word to the general that theay would meet him at Shuger
+<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_10" id="Page_10">[Pg 10]</a></span>
+Criek and give him Battel at the Same time thare was more than four to
+one Sent him word that theay would not Enterfeir or misleit him on his
+march as he had told them that he would go to Detroit the general marcht
+to the Place But thare was not one that apeard against him he then gave
+word that all those Saveges that Did not Come in within twelve Days time
+and join him that he would loock upon them as Enemies and use them as
+Such and that he would Destroy thair hole Contry&mdash;now it was an
+impossibillity for those nation that sent him word that theay would not
+misleit him to get word in that Short Space of time which the general
+thought Proper to Set much more Come in&mdash;now what Can we Expect But
+to have them all against us if thare is not Some Spedy rimedy&mdash;I
+Cannot Say what opinion your honours may have of the Saveges But I Can
+asure you that theay are very numerous thair numbers are not known that
+thare has not one out of a hundred taken up the hachet against us yet
+But we Cannot But Expect theay will if there is not Proper Steps taken
+and that Spedily&mdash;we will Supose that the Proper Steps are for us
+to march threw thair Contry and take Detroit which is Esily Done if
+matters ware Conducted as theay ought to Be&mdash;and By having that in
+our Possession and the lakes it will Be in our Power to forse all those
+near nations to Come upon our terms and that will Enduce all the farrons
+ones to Be upon aliance with us and then we Shall have all the trade of
+that Extensive Contry Quite from the north west hutsons Bay lake Superier
+the heads of the macceippia which will make our Contry florish&mdash;But
+we will Say the Publick has Ben at grate Expence for two years Past
+and we are no nearer now than we was when we fust Set out But what is
+the reason it is Because thare was Peopel Sent that Knew nothing of the
+<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_11" id="Page_11">[Pg 11]</a></span>
+mater the general told me that he was Brought up by the (sic) Sea Shore
+and that he knew nothing abought Pack horseing in this wooden
+Contry&mdash;I Dont take it upon me to Dictate or Sensure no one But I
+think that ought to Be Enquired into Before thare was thousands Spent
+But now it is to recall the horses and Bollocks are Dead the Provisions
+is Eat the men must have thair Pay it is Sunk lost gone and here we are
+Still going on in the Same way the general has likewise got the ill will
+of all his officers the melitia in Protickaler which I am very sorry for
+as theay are the only Peopel that we have to Depend upon to Do any thing
+in this Deartment&mdash;now if thare was not any one that knew how
+matters Should have Ben Conducted it would have Ben a meteriel
+Diference&mdash;But thare is a gentlemon of an unblemisht Carrecter who
+has Singulied himself By leaveing Every thing that was near and Dear to
+him and Come in to this Quarter of the Contry Prepared Proper talks for
+the Saveges and as he was grately respected By all those who knew him it
+had its Entended Effect and I Can asure your honnours that it has Ben
+the Saving of hundreads of lives and I Can further asure you By various
+Surcomstances and Credible Intilegence that if he had not have Come and
+Did what he Did that thare would not have remaind one family this Side
+alagane mountains&mdash;he is Still Striveing to keep them from falling
+upon us But as here is others here Strieveing to Set them up it will Be
+a very Difecult matter for him to Do it he has Sent for the Cheifs of
+the nations to Come in and that thare is Still mercy for them if
+theay will know thair Duty and as his Enfluence is grate with all
+those nations who know him I am in hope it will have its Effect But
+I Should not Be Disapointed if theay Did not after receiveing Such
+threts as theay have he has like wise at his own Privat
+<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_12" id="Page_12">[Pg 12]</a></span>
+Expence hired men and Sent threw the hole Contry abought Detroit and
+this side found out the Situation of it and when I was Prisener with the
+British I have heard them often make remarks that if he Did not Come
+against that we had not another man in our Parts that knew the Situation
+of the Contry and had the Enfluence with the natives as he had&mdash;But
+whatever knoledge he may have Concarning those matters he has not never
+had the offer of ordering of them But in Stead of that he has Ben Put
+under an arest By the fals raports of a Poor Ignorant Set of Peopel
+which is to the Eternal Shame of our Contry after he had Savd them from
+Being masacereed By the Saveges that was his reward&mdash;now I beg that
+your Honnours will take it into Consideration and order some Spedy
+arangement Before this Quarter of the Contry is ruined a house Devided
+against it Self Cannot Stand and your honnours may rely upon it that is
+the case here if I have taken to much liberty I Beg your honnours will
+loock over it as I would not wish to Do more than My Duty&mdash;form
+your most obedient</p>
+
+<p style='text-align:right'>and humble Servant&mdash;John Dodge&mdash;</p>
+
+<p>upon Colo. Morgans arival here he Sent an Express to the Endian nations
+for them to Come in and thare has two runners jest arived here with
+Speaches of grate Concequence which I suppose he will acquaint Congress
+with the Eairliest oppertunity&mdash;</p>
+
+<p>
+<span style="margin-left: 6em;">(<i>in pencil</i>)</span><br />
+Specimen of the Literati of '76&mdash;!<br />
+<span style="margin-left: 4em;">(<i>Indorsement</i>)</span><br />
+<span style="margin-left: 7em;">Letter from John Dodge</span><br />
+<span style="margin-left: 4em;">Pittsburg 25 Jany 1779</span><br />
+<span style="margin-left: 5em;">Read Feby. 17th.&mdash;</span><br />
+<span style="margin-left: 4em;">Referred to the board of war&mdash;</span><br />
+</p>
+</div>
+
+<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_13" id="Page_13">[Pg 13]</a></span></p>
+<p>This letter or statement was not received by Congress till December
+13, 1781, nearly two years later, and the committee to which it was
+referred, reported adversely to the suggestions contained in it, March
+20, 1782.</p>
+
+<p>Early in 1779, Lieutenant Governor Henry Hamilton was captured
+by General George Rogers Clark at Vincennes and was carried to
+Williamsburg, Virginia, as a prisoner of war. The letters and Narrative
+of Dodge had been read by some members of the Council of Virginia and
+the Council resolved, June 16, 1779, that because of the cruelties
+inflicted by Great Britain on the American prisoners of war, it was
+proper to begin a system of retaliation, and they conclude their
+resolution as follows:&mdash;"this board has resolved to advise the governor
+that the said Henry Hamilton, Philip Dejean and William LaMothe,
+prisoners of war, be put in irons, confined in the dungeon of the public
+jail, debarred the use of pen, ink and paper and excluded all converse
+except with their keeper, and the governor orders accordingly." The
+charges preferred by Dodge against Hamilton, were urged as an additional
+reason for confining the latter in jail. Hamilton answered that the
+statements of Dodge were mutual, and that the latter was "an
+unprincipled and perjured renegade."<a name="FNanchor_9_9" id="FNanchor_9_9"></a><a href="#Footnote_9_9" class="fnanchor">[9]</a></p>
+
+<p>Hamilton's excuses were not well received, and although no longer confined
+in irons, he remained in prison for some time, but was finally released and
+<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_14" id="Page_14">[Pg 14]</a></span>
+subsequently returned to Canada as Lieutenant Governor of the province.</p>
+
+<p>Dodge was appointed Indian Agent by Virginia and was located in
+Kaskaskia from 1780 to 1788 and possibly until a later date.<a name="FNanchor_10_10" id="FNanchor_10_10"></a><a href="#Footnote_10_10" class="fnanchor">[10]</a></p>
+
+<p>When claims of the Revolutionary soldiers to the western lands were
+being considered Dodge laid claim to a section, as a refugee from
+Canada<a name="FNanchor_11_11" id="FNanchor_11_11"></a><a href="#Footnote_11_11" class="fnanchor">[11]</a> and his heirs were awarded a tract containing 1280 acres in
+the year 1800. This indicates that Dodge died before May 8th of that
+year. Four patents were issued to the heirs of John Dodge for lands in
+town sixteen, range twenty, Ohio, July 12, 1802.</p>
+
+<p>Henry L. Caldwell, a grandson of Israel Dodge, wrote as follows:&mdash;"I do
+not know the date of the death of Colonel John Dodge, neither can I
+locate his grave or that of my grandfather, Israel Dodge, but the
+remains of both are, beyond doubt, resting in the old grave yard in Ste.
+Genevieve, Mo., which adjoins the catholic grave yard."<a name="FNanchor_12_12" id="FNanchor_12_12"></a><a href="#Footnote_12_12" class="fnanchor">[12]</a></p>
+
+<p>John Dodge, while living at Kaskaskia, held a commission of Colonel
+received from Governor Patrick Henry of Virginia. His brother Israel
+Dodge was a lieutenant under him at that place. Israel had married Ann
+Hunter at Carlisle, Pa., before he moved to the West, and at Vincennes,
+their son Henry, who afterwards became the first Governor of the Territory
+of Wisconsin, was born October 12, 1782. He was named after Moses Henry,
+who was in the fort at Vincennes when it was captured by Governor Hamilton
+<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_15" id="Page_15">[Pg 15]</a></span>
+in 1778, being the only private in the "Army" which held out against
+the British invader.</p>
+
+<p>There is a letter from John Dodge from Kaskaskia, June 23, 1783,
+informing the Indians that Detroit had been captured by the Americans.
+A false report. Va. St. Pap. 3. 500.</p>
+
+<p>A letter to Philip Boyle at Sandusky, July 13, 1779, in Farmer's Hist.
+of Detroit 1. 173. This letter was intercepted by the British. It
+enclosed the proceedings of the Virginia Council concerning Hamilton.</p>
+
+<p>Dodge was a great traveler in his day. Born in Connecticut in 1751, he
+went to Sandusky, Ohio, in 1770, thence to Fort Pitt (Pittsburg), thence
+back to Sandusky, thence in succession to Detroit, Michillimackinac
+(Mackinac), Detroit, Quebec, Boston, New York, Philadelphia, Fort Pitt,
+Vincennes (Indiana), Kaskaskia (Illinois), Ste. Genevieve (Missouri),
+and New Orleans. We find mention of the man at these places and it is
+very probable that his travels were much more extensive.<a name="FNanchor_13_13" id="FNanchor_13_13"></a><a href="#Footnote_13_13" class="fnanchor">[13]</a></p>
+
+<p>In the Harman papers, as reported by the Missouri Historical Society, is
+the following reference to Dodge in a letter from John Rice Jones, dated
+October, 1789: "John Dodge and Michael Antanya, with a party of whites and
+armed Piankeshaw Indians, came over from the Spanish side and attempted to
+carry off some slaves of Mr. John Edgar, and otherwise were guilty of
+outlandish conduct, threatening to burn the village." Dodge and Edgar were
+old friends and fellow prisoners at Detroit. They were both arrested and
+<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_16" id="Page_16">[Pg 16]</a></span>
+confined in that place as being too friendly towards the American cause.
+Edgar was one of the witnesses relied upon to prove that Dodge was entitled
+to the land grant for which he had made application as a Canadian refugee.</p>
+
+<p>James Wood<a name="FNanchor_14_14" id="FNanchor_14_14"></a><a href="#Footnote_14_14" class="fnanchor">[14]</a> of Frederick County, Va., who is mentioned in the
+Narrative, was appointed to command an expedition against the Shawanese,
+and armed his company at his own expense. He was also deputed, by the
+House of Burgesses, in 1775, to go among the several tribes of Western
+Indians and invite them to a treaty at Fort Pitt. He set out on his
+errand June 25, 1775, and was gone two months. He "underwent the
+greatest fatigues, difficulties and dangers." He was ordered paid &pound;250
+for "the great service he hath done to this colony, by his diligent and
+faithful execution of the commission with which he was intrusted."</p>
+
+<p>The meeting of the Indians, which is referred to in the Narrative, took
+place at Fort Pitt in October, 1775. One of the Indian chiefs who was
+present on the occasion, was Shegenaba, the son of the famous Pontiac.
+His father had recently been killed in a war between the Indians, and he
+refers to this event in his speech, a part of which is as follows:</p>
+
+<div class="blockquot">
+<p>Fathers: From the information I have had of the commandant of Detroit,
+with distrust I accepted your invitation, and measured my way to the council
+fire with trembling feet. Your reception of me convinces me of his falsehood,
+and the groundlessness of my fears. Truth and he has long been enemies. My
+<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_17" id="Page_17">[Pg 17]</a></span>
+father, and many of my chiefs, have lately tasted death. The remembrance
+of that misfortune almost unmans me, and fills my eyes with tears.</p>
+</div>
+
+<p>The following is another letter by Dodge:</p>
+
+<div class="blockquot">
+<p style='text-align:right'>Fort Pitt Decr 13th 1781.</p>
+
+<p>Sir</p>
+
+<p>I think it my indispencible duty to Lay before your Excellency a State
+of the Western Islianoy Country which may Probably throw Some light on
+the Various Reports which may have Reached you through Channels not so
+well acquainted with it as I am&mdash;Since Col George Rogers Clark took
+Possion of that Country by order of the State of Virginia the
+inhabitants have been obliged to furnish The means of Subsistance for a
+number of troops stationed Thare&mdash;Received bills for payment but the
+Greatest part of them protested and Still Remains unpaid which have Not
+only impoverished the Country to a Great Degree but Numbers have Joynd
+the Spanish Settlements on the Same Account and indeed the Greatest part
+are determined to Follow them if their Grievances are Not Remedied in
+Consequence the enormous Expence the State of Virginia has Been at in
+that quarter will be but of little advantage To the united States if the
+inhabitants all leave that Country and Join the Spanish Settlements who
+are Making use of Every means and giving Every incouragement In their
+power Even to our allied Savages but as Yet their efforts has proved
+inafectual with them But as Poverty is always loyable to temptation I
+fear their Warmest attachment to us Will be Seduced by those Who have it
+in their power to Supply them the inhabitants are too inconsiderable to
+Guard themselves from the Hostilities of our Enemies and have often
+Solicited me to Represent their Situation to <span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_18" id="Page_18">[Pg 18]</a></span>Congress before the State
+of Virginia Gave up their Claim to that Country&mdash;the the Chief of the
+indian Nations Sent a Speech to Congress Representing the State of his
+Nation and if Nothing Cold be done in Regard of Suplying them Beged an
+answer Which to my knoledge was lodged with the board of War and Never
+no answer Received&mdash;Should Congress think proper to Send troops to
+protect and keep that Country under Subjection the Only Way in my Humble
+opinion to Furnish them Would be to send Some Confidential person with a
+proper Supply of Merchandize which would in incourage the Settlement of
+the Country Cultivate the Savage interest Supply the troops with Every
+Necessary the Return would also answer for Exportation and Finally open
+a Very Profitable and Extensive trade in a little time&mdash;But these hints
+I beg leave to Refer to your Excellencies own better Judgment Consious
+that if they are worth your Notice Will direct them into their Proper
+uses&mdash;I propose to Leave this Soon for that quarter and Shall be Very
+happy in Rendering any Service in my Power which may be advantageous to
+the United States that Your Excellency may think Proper to intrust to my
+mannagement&mdash;Pleasd to Excuse the freedom of my remarks Which you Will
+do me the Honour to Corruct</p>
+
+<p><span style="margin-left: 12em;">I have the honour to be with the Greatest Respect</span></p>
+
+<p>
+<span style="margin-left: 12em;">Your Excellencies</span><br />
+<span style="margin-left: 14em;">Most Obd and Very</span><br />
+<span style="margin-left: 16em;">Humbe Servt&mdash;</span><br />
+<span style="margin-left: 18em;">Jno. Dodge</span><br />
+</p>
+
+<p>To<br />
+<span style="margin-left: 1em;">His Excellency</span><br />
+<span style="margin-left: 2em;">President of Congress</span><br />
+(Dec. 13, 1782)</p>
+
+<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_19" id="Page_19">[Pg 19]</a></span></p>
+
+<p>
+<span style="margin-left: 6em;">(<i>Indorsement</i>)</span><br />
+<span style="margin-left: 4em;">Letter 13 Decr. 1781</span><br />
+<span style="margin-left: 6em;">John Dodge</span><br />
+<span style="margin-left: 4em;">Read Feby. 27, 1782</span><br />
+<span style="margin-left: 3em;">Referred to Mr. Wolcot</span><br />
+<span style="margin-left: 7.5em;">Mr. Clark</span><br />
+<span style="margin-left: 7.5em;">Mr. Patridge</span><br />
+<span style="margin-left: 4em;">The Comd discharged</span><br />
+(<i>Address</i>)<br />
+<span style="margin-left: 2em;">His Excellency</span><br />
+<span style="margin-left: 4em;">President of Congress</span><br />
+<span style="margin-left: 6em;">Philadelphia</span><br />
+</p>
+</div>
+
+<p>The Committee to whom was referred the Letter of John Dodge report</p>
+
+<p>That they have made the fullest enquiry that the circumstances of the
+case would admit, relative to the Facts mentioned in said Letter, But
+have not been able to obtain any Evidence to support them&mdash;and are
+therefore of opinion that the Committee ought to be discharged.</p>
+
+<p>March 20, 1782.</p>
+
+<div class="blockquot">
+<p>In council June 16, 1779.</p>
+
+<p>The board proceeded to the consideration of the letters of colonel
+Clarke, and other papers relating to Henry Hamilton Esqr., who has acted
+for some years past as Lieutenant Governour of the settlement at and
+about Detroit, and Commandant of the British garrison there, under Sir
+Guy Carleton as Governour in Chief; Philip Dejean Justice of the Peace
+for Detroit and William Lamothe, Captain of volunteers, prisoners of
+war, taken in the county of Illinois.<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_20" id="Page_20">[Pg 20]</a></span></p>
+
+<p>They find that Governour Hamilton has executed the task of inciting the
+Indians to perpetrate their accustomed cruelties on the citizens of
+these States, without distinction of age, sex, or condition, with an
+eagerness and activity which evince that the general nature of his
+charge harmonized with his particular disposition; they should have been
+satisfied from the other testimony adduced that these enormities were
+committed by savages acting under his commission, but the number of
+proclamations which, at different times were left in houses, the
+inhabitants of which were killed or carried away by the Indians, one of
+which proclamations, under the hand and seal of Governour Hamilton, is
+in possession of the Board, puts this fact beyond doubt. At the time of
+his captivity it appears, that he had sent considerable detachments of
+Indians against the frontier settlements of these states, and had
+actually appointed a great council of Indians to meet him at the mouth
+of the Tanissee, to concert the operations of this present campaign.
+They find that his treatment of our citizens and soldiers, captivated
+and carried within the limits of his command, has been cruel and
+inhumane; that in the case of John Dodge, a citizen of these states,
+which has been particularly stated to this Board, he loaded him with
+irons, threw him into a dungeon, without bedding, without straw, without
+fire, in the dead of winter and severe climate of Detroit; that in that
+state he harrassed and wasted him, with incessant expectations of death;
+that when the rigours of his situation had brought him so low that death
+seemed likely to withdraw him from their power, he was taken out and
+attended to somewhat mended, and then again, before he had recovered
+abilities to walk, was returned to his dungeon, in which a hole was cut
+seven inches square only, for the admission of air, and the same load
+<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_21" id="Page_21">[Pg 21]</a></span>of irons again put on him; that appearing again to be in imminent
+danger of being lost to them, he was a second time taken from his
+dungeon, in which he had lain from January to June, with the
+intermission before mentioned of a few weeks only; That Governour
+Hamilton gave standing rewards for scalps, but offered none for
+prisoners, which induced the Indians, after making their captives carry
+their baggage into the neighborhood of the fort, there to put them to
+death, and carry in their scalps to the Governour, who welcomed their
+return and success by a discharge of cannon; that when a prisoner
+brought [a]live, and destined to death by the Indians, the fire already
+kindled, and himself bound to the stake, was dexterously withdrawn and
+secreted from them by the humanity of a fellow prisoner; a large reward
+was offered for the discovery of the victim, which having tempted a
+servant to betray his concealment, the present prisoner Dejean being
+sent with a party of soldiers, surrounded the house, took and threw into
+jail the unhappy victim, and his deliverer, where the former soon
+expired under the perpetual assurances of Dejean, that he was to be
+again restored into the hands of the savages, and the latter when
+enlarged was bitterly and illiberally reprimanded and threatened by
+Governour Hamilton.</p>
+
+<p>It appears to them that the prisoner Dejean, was on all occasions the
+willing and cordial instrument of Governour Hamilton, acting both as
+judge and keeper of the jail, and instigating and urging him by
+malicious insinuations and untruths, to increase rather than relax his
+severities, heightening the cruelty of his orders by the manner of
+executing them; offering at one time a reward to one prisoner to be the
+hangman of another, threatening his life on refusal, and taking from his
+<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_22" id="Page_22">[Pg 22]</a></span>prisoners the little property their opportunities enabled them to
+acquire.</p>
+
+<p>It appears that the prisoner, Lamothe, was a Captain of the volunteer
+scalping parties of Indians and whites wh[o] went out from time to time,
+under general orders to spare neither men, women, nor children.</p>
+
+<p>From this detail of circumstances which arose in a few cases only,
+coming accidentally to the knowledge of the Board they think themselves
+authorized to presume by fair deduction what would be the horrid history
+of the sufferings of the many who have expired under their miseries
+(which therefore will remain forever untold) or who having escaped from
+them, are yet too remote and too much dispersed to bring together their
+well grounded accusations against these prisoners.</p>
+
+<p>They have seen that the conduct of the British officers, civil and
+military, has in its general tenor, through the whole course of this
+war, been savage &amp; unprecedented among civilized nations; that our
+officers and soldiers taken by them have been loaded with irons,
+consigned to loathesome and crouded jails, dungeons, and prison ships;
+supplied often with no food, generally with too little for the
+sustenance of nature, and that little sometimes unsound and unwholsome,
+whereby so many of them have perished that captivity and miserable death
+have with them been almost synonimous; that they have been transported
+beyond seas where their fate is out of the reach of our enquiry, have
+been compelled to take arms against their country, and by a new
+refinement in cruelty to become the murtherers of their own brethren.</p>
+
+<p>Their prisoners with us have, on the other hand, been treated with
+moderation and humanity; they have been fed on all occasions with
+wholesome and plentiful <span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_23" id="Page_23">[Pg 23]</a></span>food, lodged comfortably, suffered to go at
+large within extensive tracts of country, treated with liberal
+hospitality, permitted to live in the families of our citizens, to
+labour for themselves, to acquire and to enjoy property, and finally to
+participate of the principal benefits of society while privileged from
+all its burthens.</p>
+
+<p>Reviewing this contrast which cannot be denied by our enemies themselves
+in a single point, which has now been kept up during four years of
+unremitted war, a term long enough to produce well founded despair that
+our moderation may ever lead them into a practice of humanity, called on
+by that justice which we owe to those who are fighting the battles of
+their country, to deal out at length miseries to their enemies, measure
+for measure, and to distress the feelings of mankind by exhibiting to
+them spectacles of severe retaliation, where we had long and vainly
+endeavoured to introduce an emulation in kindness; happily possessed by
+the fortune of war some of those very individuals, who having
+distinguished themselves personally in this line of cruel conduct, are
+fit subjects to begin on with the work of retaliation, this Board has
+resolved to advise the Governour that the said Henry Hamilton, Philip
+Dejean, and William Lamothe, prisoners of war, be put into irons,
+confined in the dungeon of the publick jail, debarred the use of pen,
+ink, and paper, and excluded all converse except with their keeper. And
+the Governour orders accordingly.</p>
+
+<p>Attest</p>
+<p style='text-align:right'>Archibald Blair C. C. (<i>A copy</i>)</p>
+</div>
+
+<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_24" id="Page_24">[Pg 24]</a></span></p>
+
+
+
+<hr style="width: 65%;" />
+<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_25" id="Page_25">[Pg 25]</a></span></p>
+
+
+<h2><span class="smcap">Mr. DODGE's</span><br />
+<big>NARRATIVE</big><br />
+<small>Of his <span class="smcap">Sufferings</span> among the</small><br />
+<big>BRITISH</big><br />
+<small>AT&nbsp; DETROIT.</small></h2>
+
+<div class="figcenter" style="width: 606px;">
+<img src="images/i025.png" width="606" height="772" alt="" title="" />
+</div>
+
+
+<hr style="width: 65%;" />
+<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_26" id="Page_26">[Pg 26]</a></span></p>
+
+<div class="figcenter" style="width: 378px;">
+<img src="images/i026.png" width="378" height="540" alt="" title="" />
+</div>
+
+
+<hr style="width: 65%;" />
+<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_27" id="Page_27">[Pg 27]</a></span></p>
+
+
+<h4>AN ENTERTAINING<br />
+<big>NARRATIVE</big></h4>
+
+<h4>Of the cruel and barbarous Treatment and<br />
+extreme <span class="smcap">Sufferings</span> of</h4>
+
+<h2><big>M<sup>R.</sup> JOHN DODGE</big><br />
+<small>DURING HIS</small><br />
+<big>CAPTIVITY</big><br />
+<small>OF MANY MONTHS AMONG THE</small><br />
+BRITISH.<br />
+<small>AT DETROIT.</small></h2>
+
+<h5>IN WHICH IS ALSO CONTAINED,</h5>
+
+<h4>A particular Detail of the <span class="smcap">Sufferings</span> of<br />
+a Virginian, who died in their Hands.</h4>
+
+
+<div class="bbt"><h5>Written by Himself: and now published to satisfy the Curiosity
+of every one throughout the <span class="smcap">United States</span>.</h5></div>
+
+<h3>THE SECOND EDITION.</h3>
+
+<h5>
+<span class="smcap">Danvers</span>, near <span class="smcap">Salem</span>: Printed and Sold by<br />
+<span class="smcap">E. Russell.</span> next the Bell-Tavern. M,<small>DCC LXXX.</small><br />
+At the same Place may be had a Number of new Books,<br />
+&amp;c. some of which are on the Times&mdash;Cash paid for Rags
+</h5>
+
+<hr style="width: 65%;" />
+<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_28" id="Page_28">[Pg 28]</a></span></p>
+
+<div class="blockquot"><p>It is worthy of remark, that the three persons who make a principal
+<i>inglorious</i> figure in the following <span class="smcap">Narrative</span>, viz. Governor
+<i>Hamilton</i>, <i>De Jeane</i> and <i>Le Mote</i>, were afterwards taken by the brave
+Colonel <span class="smcap">Clarke</span>, of Virginia, at Fort St. Vincent, and are now confined
+in irons in a goal in Virginia (by order of the Legislature of that
+State) as a <i>retaliation</i> for their former <i>inhuman</i> treatment of
+prisoners, who fell into their hands, particularly Mr. <span class="smcap">Dodge</span>, who has
+the pleasing consolation of viewing his <i>savage adversaries</i> in a
+similar predicament with himself when in their power&mdash;&mdash;though it is not
+in the breast of generous <span class="smcap">Americans</span> to treat them with equal barbarity.</p></div>
+
+
+
+<hr style="width: 65%;" />
+<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_29" id="Page_29">[Pg 29]</a></span></p>
+<h2>A<br />
+NARRATIVE, &amp;</h2>
+
+
+<p>I sometime since left the place of my nativity in Connecticut, and, in
+the year 1770, settled in Sandusky, an Indian village, about half way
+between Pittsburgh and Detroit, where I carried on a very beneficial
+trade with the natives, until the unhappy dispute between Great-Britain
+and America reached those pathless wilds, and roused to war Savages no
+ways interested in it.</p>
+
+<p>In July, 1775, Capt. James Woods called at my house in his way to the
+different indian towns, where he was going to invite them, in the name
+of the Congress, to a treaty to be held at Fort-Pitt. the ensuing fall;
+I attended him to their villages, and the Savages promised him they
+would be there. Capt. Woods also invited me to go with the Indians to
+the treaty, as they were in want of an interpreter, which I readily
+agreed to.</p>
+
+<p>Soon after the departure of Capt. Woods,<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_30" id="Page_30">[Pg 30]</a></span> the Commander of Fort-Detroit
+sent for the Savages in and about Sandusky, and told them that he heard
+they were invited by the Americans to a treaty at Pittsburgh, which they
+told him was true; on which he delivered them a talk to the following
+purport: "That he was their father, and as such he would advise them as
+his own children; that the Colonists who were to meet them at Pittsburgh
+were a bad people; that by the indulgence of their Protector, they had
+grown a numerous and saucy people; that the great King not thinking they
+would have the assurance to oppose his just laws, had kept but few
+troops in America for some years past; that those men being ignorant of
+their incapacity to go through with what they intend, propose to cut off
+the few regulars in this country, and then you Indians, and have all
+America to themselves; and all they want is, under the shew of
+friendship, to get you into their hands as hostages, and there hold you,
+until your nations shall comply with their terms, which if they refuse,
+you will be all massacred. Therefore do not go by any means; but if you
+will join me, and keep them at bay a little while, the King, our father,
+will send large fleets<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_31" id="Page_31">[Pg 31]</a></span> and Armies to our assistance, and we will soon
+subdue them, and have their plantations to ourselves."</p>
+
+<p>This talk so dismayed the Indians, that they came to me and said they
+would not go to the treaty, at the same time telling me what the
+Governor of Detroit had said to them. On this Mr. James Heron and myself
+having the cause of our country at heart, asserted that what the
+Governor had said was false and told them that the Colonists would not
+hurt a hair of their heads, and if they would go to the treaty, that I,
+with Mr. Heron, would be security, and pledge our property, to the
+amount of four thousand pounds, for their safe return. This, with the
+arrival of Mr. Butler with fresh invitations, induced some of them to go
+with me to the treaty.</p>
+
+<p>In the fall I attended a number of them to the treaty, where we were
+politely received by the Commissioners sent by Congress. The council
+commenced; the Indians, who are always fond of fishing in troubled
+water, offered their assistance, which was refused, with a request that
+they would remain in peace, and not take up the hatchet on either side.
+On the whole, these Indians<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_32" id="Page_32">[Pg 32]</a></span> were well pleased with the talk from the
+Congress, and promised to remain quiet.</p>
+
+<p>The Commissioners thinking it proper, sont the Continental belt and talk
+by some of the Chiefs to the Savages who resided about the lakes. These
+Chiefs being obliged to pass Sandusky, in their rout, Mr. John Gibson,
+Agent for Indian affairs requested me to accompany them, and furnish
+them with what they stood in need of; on which I took them home.</p>
+
+<p>On my arrival at the village I found the Savages in confusion, and
+preparing to war, on which I called a Council and rehearsed the
+Continental talk, which with a present of goods to the amount of twenty
+five pounds, quieted them. This I informed Congress of, agreable to
+their request, by express, and that the Governor of Detroit was still
+urging the Indians to war. Soon after this, a party of Savages from the
+neighborhood of the lakes, came to my house on their way to the frontier
+to strike a blow: I asked them the reason they took up the hatchet? They
+replied, that the Governor of Detroit had told them, that the Americans
+were going<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_33" id="Page_33">[Pg 33]</a></span> to murder them all and take their lands but if they would
+join him, they would be able to drive them off, and that he would give
+them twenty dollars a scalp. On this I rehearsed the Continental talk,
+and making them a small present they returned home, believing as I had
+told them, that the Governor was a liar and meant to deceive them.</p>
+
+<p>On this I thought proper to write the Governor of Detroit, what he was
+to expect should he continue to persuade the Indians to take up the
+Hatchet. He was so enraged at the receipt of this letter, that he
+offered one hundred pounds for my scalp or body, he sent out several
+parties to take me without effect, until having spread an evil report of
+me among the indians, on the fifteenth of January, 1776, my house was
+surrounded by about twenty soldiers and savages, who broke into the
+house, made me a prisoner, and then marched me for Detroit.</p>
+
+<p>It was about the dusk of the evening, when, after a fatiguing march, I
+arrived at Detroit, and was carried before Henry Hamilton, late a
+Captain in the fifteenth regiment, but now Governor and<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_34" id="Page_34">[Pg 34]</a></span> Commandant of
+Detroit; he ordered me to close confinement, telling me to spend that
+night in making my peace with <span class="smcap">God</span>, as it was the last night I should
+live; I was then hurried to a loathsome dungeon, ironed and thrown in
+with three criminals, being allowed neither bedding, straw or fire,
+although it was in the depth of winter, and so exceeding cold, that my
+toes were froze before morning.</p>
+
+<p>About ten o'clock the next morning, I was taken out and carried before
+the Governor, who produced a number of letters with my name signed to
+them, and asked me if they were my hand writing? To which I replied they
+were not. He then said, it was a matter of indifference to him whether
+I owned it or not, as he understood that I had been carrying on a
+correspondence with Congress, taking the Savages to their treaties, and
+preventing their taking up the hatchet in favor of his Majesty, to
+defend his crown and dignity that I was a rebel and traitor, and he
+would hang me. I asked him whether he intended to try me by the civil or
+military law, or give me any trial at all? To which be replied, that he
+was not obliged to give any damn'd rebel a trial unless he<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_35" id="Page_35">[Pg 35]</a></span> thought
+proper, and that he would hang every one he caught, and that he would
+begin with me first. I told him if he took my life, to beware of the
+consequence, as he might depend on it that it would be looked into.
+What, says he, do you threaten me you damn'd rebel? I will soon alter
+your tone; here take the damn'd rebel to the dungeon again, and let him
+pray to God to have mercy on his soul, for I will soon fix his body
+between heaven and earth and every scoundrel like him.</p>
+
+<p>I was then redelivered to the hands of Philip De Jeane, who acted in
+the capacity of judge, sheriff and jailor, and carried back to my
+dungeon, where I was soon waited on by the Missionary to read prayers
+with me; but it was so extremely cold, he could not stand it but a few
+minutes at a time. In conversation with him, I told him I thought it
+was very hard to lose my life without a trial, and as I was innocent
+of the charge alledged against me. He said it was very true, but that
+the Governor had charged him not to give me the least hopes of life,
+as he would absolutely hang me.</p>
+
+<p>I remained in this dismal situation three days, when De Jeane came
+and<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_36" id="Page_36">[Pg 36]</a></span> took out one of the criminals who was in the dungeon with me, and
+held a short conference with him, then came and told me, the Governor
+had sent him to tell me to prepare for another world, as I had not
+long to live, and then withdrew. I enquired of the criminal, who was a
+Frenchman, what De Jeane wanted with him? But he would not tell me.</p>
+
+<p>The evening following he told his brother in distress, that De Jeane had
+offered him twenty pounds to hang Mr. Dodge (meaning me) but that he had
+refused unless he had his liberty; De Jeane then said, that we should
+both be shot under the gallows.</p>
+
+<p>Being at last drove almost to despair, I told De Jeane to inform the
+Governor I was readier to die at that time than I should ever be, and
+that I would much rather undergo his sentence, than be tortured in the
+dreadful manner I then was. He returned for answer, that I need not
+hurry them, but prepare myself, as I should not know my time until half
+an hour before I was turned off.</p>
+
+<p>Thus did I languish on in my dungeon, without a friend being allowed to
+visit me,<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_37" id="Page_37">[Pg 37]</a></span> denied the necessaries of life, and must have perished with
+the cold it being in the depth of winter, had not my fellow-prisoners
+spared me a blanket from their scanty stock. Thus denied the least
+comfort in life together with the unjust and savage threatning I
+received every day, brought me so very low, that my inability to answer
+De Jeane's unreasonable questions, with which he daily tormented me
+respecting innocent men, obliged him to notice my situation, and no
+doubt thinking I should die in their hands, they thought proper to
+remove me to the barracks, and ordered a Doctor to attend me. The
+weather had been so extreme cold, and my legs had been bolted in such a
+manner, that they were so benumbed, and the sinews contracted, that I
+had not the least use of them; and the severity of my usage had brought
+on a fever, which had nigh saved them any further trouble.</p>
+
+<p>After I had lain some time ill, and my recovery was despaired of, De
+Jeane called and told me that the Governor had altered his mind with
+respect to executing me, and bid me be of good cheer, as he believed
+the Governor would give me my liberty when I got better; I replied it
+was a matter of indifference to me whether he<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_38" id="Page_38">[Pg 38]</a></span> gave me my liberty or
+not, as I had much rather die than remain at their mercy: On which he
+said, "You may die and be damn'd," and bounced out of the room.</p>
+
+<p>When I had so far recovered as to be able to set up in my bed, my
+nurse being afraid I should inform her husband of her tricks in his
+absence, told the Governor that I was a going to make my escape with a
+party of soldiers, that I was well and could walk as well as she
+could, though at that time my legs were still so cramped and benumbed
+with the irons and cold, that had kingdoms been at stake I could not
+walk.</p>
+
+<p>On this information, De Jeane came and told me to get up and walk to
+the dungeon from whence I came. I told him I was unable: "Crawl then
+you damn'd rebel, or I will make you." I told him he might do as he
+pleased, but I could not stand, much more walk: On this he called a
+party of soldiers, who tossed me into a cart and carried me to the
+dungeon: Here, by the persuasion of the Doctor, who was very kind and
+attentive, I was allowed a bed and not ironed. By his care and the
+weather growing milder, I got rid of my fever and began to walk about
+my dungeon,<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_39" id="Page_39">[Pg 39]</a></span> which was only eight feet square; but even this was a
+pleasure too great for me to enjoy long, for in a few days I was put
+into irons. The weather now growing warm and the place offensive,
+from the filth of the poor fellows I had left there, and who were
+afterwards executed, I relapsed. By persuasion of the Doctor who told
+them unless I had air I should die, a hole about seven inches square
+was cut to let in some air.</p>
+
+<p>I remained ill until June, although the Doctor had done all that lay in
+his power; he then let the Governor know, that it was impossible for me
+to recover unless I was removed from the dungeon, on which he sent De
+Jeane to inform me, if I would give security for my good behavior, that
+he would let me out of prison. Being by my usage and fever, reduced to a
+state of despondence, I told him that it was a matter of indifference
+what he did with me, and that his absence was better than his company:
+He then published it abroad, and several Gentlemen voluntarily entered
+into two thousand pounds security for me, and I once more was allowed to
+breath the fresh air, after six months confinement in a loathsome
+dungeon, except eight or nine weeks that I lay sick at the barracks.<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_40" id="Page_40">[Pg 40]</a></span></p>
+
+<p>On my going abroad, I learned that all the property I left in the woods,
+to the amount of fifteen or sixteen hundred pounds, was taken in the
+King's name and divided among the Indians. As I had but little to attend
+to but the recovery of my health, I mended apace. As soon as I could
+walk abroad, Governor Hamilton sent for me and said, he was sorry for my
+misfortunes, and hoped I would think as little as possible of them; that
+I was in a low state, he thought I had best not think of business, or
+think of what I had left, as he would lend me a hand to recover my
+losses. This smooth discourse gave me but little satisfaction for the
+ill usage I had received at his hands; however, I was determined to rest
+as easy as I could, until I had an opportunity of obtaining redress.</p>
+
+<p>As soon as I found myself so far recovered as to be able to do business,
+which was in September, I applied to the Governor to go down the
+country, but he put me off with fine words, a permission to do business
+there, and a promise of his assistance. I now settled my accounts with
+the persons with whom I was connected in trade, and found myself seven
+hundred pounds in debt. My credit being pretty good, I set up a<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_41" id="Page_41">[Pg 41]</a></span> retail
+store, and as many of the inhabitants pitied my case, they all seeming
+willing to spend their money with me. My being master of the different
+Indian languages about Detroit, was also of service to me, so that in a
+short time I paid off all my debts, and began to add to my stock.</p>
+
+<p>In the spring of 1777 I heard there was like to be a good trade at
+Machilimakanac, on which I applied to the Governor, and with a great
+deal of trouble got a pass, went and met with good trade. On my return
+Governor Hamilton by several low arts attempted to pick my cargo, which
+as it would spoil the sale of the remainder, I could not allow. As he
+had no pretence for taking them from me by force, it once more provoked
+him to wrath against me; he greatly retarded my sales by denying me a
+permit to draw my powder out of the magazine; also ordered myself and
+two servants to be ready at a moment's warning to march under Capt. Le
+Mote on a scouting party with Savages: I told him it was against my
+inclination to take up arms against my own flesh and blood, and much
+more so to go with Savages to butcher and scalp defenceless women and
+children, that were not interested in the present dispute: He said it
+was not any of my business whether they were interested in the dispute
+or not; and added if you are<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_42" id="Page_42">[Pg 42]</a></span> not ready when called for, I will fix you.
+Lucky for me he was soon after called down the country, and succeded by
+Capt. Mountpresent as Commander, who ordered Le Mote to strike my name
+out of his books: but my servants with their pay, I lost entirely.</p>
+
+<p>The party of Savages under Le Mote went out with orders not to spare
+man, woman or child. To this cruel mandate even some of the Savages made
+an objection, respecting the butchering women and children, but they
+were told the children would make soldiers, and the women would keep up
+the stock.&mdash;Those sons of Britain offered no reward for prisoners, but
+they gave the Indians twenty dollars a scalp, by which means they
+induced the Savages to make the poor inhabitants, who they had torn from
+their peaceable homes, carry their baggage until within a short distance
+of the fort, where in cold blood, they murdered them, and delivered
+their green scalps in a few hours after to those British Barbarians, who
+on the first yell of the Savages, flew to meet and hug them to their
+breasts reeking with the blood of innocence, and shewed them every mark
+of joy and approbation, by firing of cannon &amp;c.</p>
+
+<p>One of these parties returning with a number of woman and children's
+scalps, and three prisoners, they were met by the Commander<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_43" id="Page_43">[Pg 43]</a></span> of the
+fort, and after usual demonstrations of joy delivered their scalps, for
+which they were paid; the Indians then made the Commandant a present of
+two of the prisoners, reserving the third as a sacrifice to the manes of
+one of them that had fell in the expedition. Being shocked at the idea
+of one of my fellow-creatures being tortured and burnt alive by those
+inhuman Savages, I sought out the Indian who had lost his relative, and
+to whom, according to the Indian custom, this unhappy man belonged; I
+found him, took him home with me, and by the assistance of some of my
+friends and twentyfive pounds worth of goods, I persuaded the inhuman
+wretch to sell his life to me. As the rest of the gang had taken the
+prisoner about two leagues distance, and were making merry over him, we
+were obliged to lay a scheme to deliver him from their hands, which we
+did in the following manner, it being midnight and very dark the Indian,
+myself and two servants crossed the river in a batteaux to where they
+were carousing around this unhappy victim. The Indian then went to his
+companion, and under a pretence of taking the prisoner out to answer a
+call of nature, delivered him to me, who lay at some distance, and I
+carried him to the batteaux. As soon as he found himself in the hands of
+his deliverer, his transport was too great for his tender frame; three
+different<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_44" id="Page_44">[Pg 44]</a></span> times he sunk lifeless in my arms, and as often by the help
+of water, the only remedy at hand, I prevented his going to the land of
+spirits in a transport of joy. None but those who have experienced it,
+can have an idea of the thoughts that must have agitated the breast of a
+man, who but a few minutes before saw himself surronnded by Savages,
+whose dismal yell, and frightful figures, heightened by the glare of a
+large fire in a dismal wood, which must have harrowed up the soul of an
+uninterested bystander, much more one who knew that very fire was
+prepared for his execution, and that every moment the executioner was
+expected to arrive.&mdash;The executioner arrives; he advances towards him;
+he losens this unhappy victim from the tree to which he was bound, no
+doubt as this young man imagined to be led to the stake; but as it were
+in an instant, he finds himself in the hands of his deliverer and
+fellow-countryman. This, as I said before was too much for him to bear;
+however I got his almost lifeless corpse to my house, where I kept him
+hid. The Indian, according to our agrement in an hour or two after I was
+gone, returned seemingly much fatigued, and told his fellow Savages who
+were impatiently waiting to begin their brutal sacrifice, that the
+prisoner had escaped, and that he had in vain pursued him. Some time
+after this I found an opportunity<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_45" id="Page_45">[Pg 45]</a></span> and made an agrement with the Captain
+of a vessel going to Michilimakanac, to take my unhappy inmate with him,
+but one of my servants being tempted, by a large reward that was offered
+for retaking the above prisoner, informed De Jeane, that he was hid in
+my house, on which my habitation was soon surrounded by a party of
+soldiers under the command of said De Jeane, and myself, the young man
+and four servants were made prisoners, and having demanded my keys,
+which I delivered, we were hurried to goal and confined in different
+rooms. Here this unhappy young fellow, in high expectations of seeing
+his friends, was once more plunged into the horrors of imprisonment.</p>
+
+<div class="figcenter" style="width: 622px;">
+<span class="caption"><span class="smcap">Representation</span> of the Indian Manner of burning an English
+Prisoner.</span>
+<img src="images/i045.png" width="622" height="490" alt="" title="" />
+</div>
+
+
+<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_46" id="Page_46">[Pg 46]</a></span></p>
+
+<p>I was sent for and carried before the Commandant, where, on being
+examined who was the person in my house, I frankly told him it was a
+young man whom I had bought of the Indians when they were going to burn
+him, and that I meant to send him to Canada to be out of the way of the
+Savages, but De Jeane, like other men of bad principles, thinking no man
+could do a good action without sinister views, said that he believed I
+had purchased him to serve my own ends, and that he would find them out,
+which the Commandant ordered him to do as soon as possible, and I was
+ordered to prison.</p>
+
+<p>De Jeane then took my servant, who was his informant, ironed him, put
+him in the dungeon, and after keeping him three days on bread and water,
+the lad almost frightened out of his senses, sent for De Jeane, and told
+him that the day before I was taken up I had wrote several letters, and
+on his bringing a candle to seal them, that I said, if he told any one
+that I was writing to Pitsburg, that I would blow his brains out. This
+suiting De Jeane's purpose, he made the lad swear to it, and then set
+him with the rest of my servants at liberty.</p>
+
+<p>I was now once more called before the Commandant, who told me he
+understood I<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_47" id="Page_47">[Pg 47]</a></span> was going to send an express to his Majesty's enemies, in
+consequence of which he had taken an inventory of my effects, and meant
+to send me to Canada. I told him he was misinformed: He then taxes me
+with what De Jeane had forced from my servant; asked me where I was
+writing the day before I was taken? I told him to my correspondents in
+Montreal; and luckily for me a neighbor of mine, having been at my
+house, was produced, who declared the truth of what I said, and that I
+being hurried, had given him the letters to carry on board the vessel.
+This with some other false accusations being cleared up, I was once more
+released on giving fresh security.</p>
+
+<p>Though myself and servants were, for want of a pretence for detaining
+us, set at liberty, it was not so with the unfortunate young man whom
+I had purchased from the Indian; he still remained in prison, daily
+tormented with the threats of De Jeane, that he would deliver him to the
+Indians, which so preyed on his spirits, that in a short time it threw
+him into a fever. I then applied to Capt Montpresent, the Commandant,
+who gave me permission, and I removed him to sick quarters, where
+I hired Jacob Pue, of Virginia, his fellow prisoner, to attend him<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_48" id="Page_48">[Pg 48]</a></span>. I
+also, when leisure would permit, attended him myself; but De Jeane, who
+still haunted him, had so great an effect on him, that one day when I
+visited him, he called me to his bedside and said to me, that De Jeane
+had just left him, that he told him to make haste and get well, as the
+Indians were waiting for him. Pray Sir, (said the young man to De Jeane)
+for <span class="smcap">God</span>'s sake try to keep me from the Indians, for if they get me they
+will burn me. Keep you from them, said De Jeane, you damn'd rebel you
+deserve to be burned, and all your damn'd countrymen with you, for you
+need not think Dodge can save you; General Hamilton is now come up, and
+he will fix you all. I tried to comfort him, and told him to be of good
+courage: Oh! replied he. I am almost distracted with the idea of being
+burnt by the Savages; I had much rather die where I am, than be
+delivered into the hands of those horrid wretches, from whom I so lately
+by your hands escaped, the recollection of which, makes me shudder with
+horror. He could say no more; he sunk under it, and in a few hours
+after, death, more kind than his cruel tormentors, released him from his
+troubles. I paid the last tribute to this my unhappy Countryman, and had
+his corpse decently interred, attended by the Missionary and most of the
+principal Merchants of the town.<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_49" id="Page_49">[Pg 49]</a></span></p>
+
+<div class="figcenter" style="width: 488px;">
+<img src="images/i049.png" width="488" height="584" alt="" title="" />
+</div>
+
+
+<p>As Hamilton was arrived, I had every thing to expect that his malice
+could invent, more especially as De Jeane, to whom his ear was always
+open, had told him (as I was informed) all and more than what had
+happened during his absence. About a month after the death of the
+unhappy young man above related, I had occasion for some of my powder
+out of the magazine: I wrote an order to the conductor, according to
+custom and waited on the Governor to have it signed; on presenting it to
+him, he looked at it, and then looked at me with a sarcastic smile said,
+It is powder you<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_50" id="Page_50">[Pg 50]</a></span> want, you damn'd rascal is it? At the same time
+tearing my order and throwing it in my face: You have behaved yourself
+very well, have you not? After my granting you your life, you would not
+go with Le Mote, would you not? says, he and starting up in a great
+passion as though he would strike me, put himself between me and the
+door. What, says he, you have a damn'd deal of influence with the
+Indians; you can purchase prisonners without my approbation can you? you
+damn'd rascal. Sir, said I, I am no rascal; not a word out of your
+mouth, says Hamilton, go about your business and take care of me or I
+will fix you: I replied it had always been my study to take care of him;
+not a word, says he, go about your business, and bless your stars I was
+not here instead of Capt. Montpresent, for I would have fixed you, you
+damn'd scoundrel. Here I took my leave, went home and determined to
+think as little of Mr. Hamilton and his usage as possible, until I had
+an opportunity of getting redress.</p>
+
+<p>Notwithstanding the hatred of Hamilton and De Jeane; I spent the
+forepart of the winter very happily, until the 25th of Jan. 1778, when
+several Merchants of the town got permission to go to Sandusky to trade,
+and as they<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_51" id="Page_51">[Pg 51]</a></span> proposed encamping about two leagues from the town, myself
+and several others in a friendly manner, proposed and did accompany them
+in our sleighs to their first stage; but on our return, I being a head,
+was challenged by De Jeane, at the head of thirty or forty soldiers, by
+asking who came there? To which I replied, John Dodge; he then ordered
+the soldiers to seize me and the two gentlemen in the sleigh with me,
+and forced us to return to the encampment we had just left, where he
+seized the whole of the gentlemen who were going by permission to
+Sandusky, with their goods, sleighs, &amp;c. and carried the whole of us the
+next morning back to the fort, and charged us with sending out goods to
+supply (as he politely termed it) the rebels.</p>
+
+<p>After being detained three days in prison I was taken to De Jeane's
+house to see my papers, books, desk, &amp;c. examined. They broke open my
+desk pretending to have lost the key. On searching, they could not find
+any thing worth their notice, or what they expected to find. De Jeane
+then gave me my keys, and told me to send for my desk and take care of
+myself as he would watch me: I told him, as he had taken it from my home
+and broke it, he should mend it and send it<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_52" id="Page_52">[Pg 52]</a></span> home before I would receive
+it: Stop a little said he, I will speak to the Governor and fix you yet
+if I can; he then gave me into the case of the guard, and ordered me to
+goal. About the fifth day after this, not hearing any thing from him, I
+sent for my violin, and was diverting myself, when Governor Hamilton
+passed by, and inquired who was playing on the violin, to which the
+Corporal of the guard answer'd it was me. The next day De Jeane waited
+on me with a Blacksmith, who soon clapped on a pair of hand-bolts; and
+now, says De Jeane, I have fixed you, you may play the violin until you
+are tired; I asked him what I had done to be treated thus; for that you
+must apply to the Governor said he, for it is his pleasure that you are
+so: He then threatened to put on my leg bolts; on which I told him I did
+not value his irons, but if he kept me prisoner, I should look to him
+for my property, (about 3000l.) Yes, says he, we will fix you and your
+property too, and then left me. About six days after, I was taken to my
+own house, where two English and two Frenchmen, by order of the
+Governor, took an inventor of my goods, and soon after sold the whole at
+vendue, for about 1900l. New-York currency. Thus being a second time
+robbed of my property, I lay a prisoner<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_53" id="Page_53">[Pg 53]</a></span> as contented as possible,
+without any thing material happening until the first of May.</p>
+
+<p>On the first of May 1778, I was put on board a vessel to go down
+to Quebec, and by some of my friends furnished with provision and
+necessaries for the voyage; but of these I was robbed by De Jeane, and
+had it not been for some gentlemen, passengers in the same vessel, I
+must have suffered with hunger. On the first of June I arrived at
+Quebec, where I was conducted to Mr. Printices the Provost Marshal! Ha!
+ha! says he, Mr. Dodge, are you here? I have often been told you were a
+damn'd rascal doing all you could against government. It is a pity
+Governor Hamilton did not hang you when he was about it, as he would
+have saved government a great deal of trouble. From hence I was
+conducted on board the prison ship Mariah, with a number of Farmers,
+taken off their plantations by the Savages.</p>
+
+<p>Two days after I was put on board the prison ship, we were visited by
+Mr. Murray, Commissary of Prisoners, to whom I gave an account of my
+capture and ill usage; he told me, he would speak to the General, and
+give me an answer. Two days after, he came on board, and told me, as it
+was very difficult<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_54" id="Page_54">[Pg 54]</a></span> times, I could not have a hearing at present; I told
+him I wanted nothing but what the English constitution allowed, and if
+I could not get that in Quebec, I would apply to England; to which he
+replied I had better be easy, for if I did not, he would put me in irons
+again.</p>
+
+<p>I remained on board the prison ship until the begining of August, when
+Mr. Murray came on board, and informed me that I was not to go with the
+prisoners; but if I would give my parole, I should be allowed the
+liberty of Quebec. I asked him the occasion I could not be sent with the
+other prisoners; he replied it was the Governor's orders: I asked him if
+I was to be allowed any support; he said, not any. I told him it was
+very hard to be dragged from my house, robbed of my property, deprived
+of my liberty, sent 1200. miles in irons, and still be held a prisoner
+in the town of Quebec, without any allowance for support: All my
+applications were in vain, I was set on shore under parole the fourth of
+August, and the ship sailed with the other prisoners soon after.</p>
+
+<p>The cause of my detention, as I was afterwards told by Mr. Murray, was,
+that Governor Hamilton, of Detroit, had wrote the<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_55" id="Page_55">[Pg 55]</a></span> General not to send
+me round with the other prisoners; for if I got into the United States,
+he knew I would come immediately upon him, and as I knew the country,
+was well acquainted with the languages of the different Indians about
+the lakes, and had great influence among them, should be the means of
+their losing the fort, which would be much against the crown.</p>
+
+<p>On my enlargement, I soon got acquainted with a number of gentlemen, who
+were friends to the United States, and the cause in which they were
+engaged. Some days after going on shore, I fell in company with a Mr.
+Jones, who happened at that time to be reading a letter sent by General
+Montgomery, while he lay before Quebec, to Gov. Carlton, and on
+concluding it said he hoped General Montgomery was in hell, and that all
+the rebels would soon be with him; to this I made a reply, words ensued,
+and then blows; he drew on me, but I parried his thrust with my cane, so
+that I only got a small wound on my knee: He then made a complaint and I
+was sent for by the General, who threatened to put me in confinement, if
+I did not find security; this I soon found, and bonds were given for me
+for two months: at the<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_56" id="Page_56">[Pg 56]</a></span> end of which, as they neglected renewing them
+and left me without parole or security, I hired an Indian guide, and on
+the ninth of Oct I quitted Quebec. After a fatiguing march through the
+woods, on the 20th of Nov. I arrived at Boston, where I was kindly
+received and politely treated by General Gates who supplied my wants and
+forwarded to me to his Excellency, General Washington; I, waited on him,
+was politely received and sent on to Congress, having some matters
+relating to Canada, worthy of their hearing.</p>
+
+<p>Had the love of my country no ways prompted me to act against the
+tyranny of Britain. I leave it to the world to judge whether I have not
+a right to revolt from under the dominion of such tyrants and exert
+every faculty God has given me to seek satisfaction for the ill usage I
+received than if I had ten thousand lives, and was sure to lose them
+all: I think should I not attempt to gain satisfaction I should deserve
+to be a slave the remainder of my life.</p>
+
+
+<h4>F I N I S</h4>
+
+<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_57" id="Page_57">[Pg 57]</a></span></p>
+
+<div class="figcenter" style="width: 388px;">
+<img src="images/i057.png" width="388" height="569" alt="" title="" />
+</div>
+
+<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_58" id="Page_58">[Pg 58]</a></span></p>
+
+
+<hr style="width: 65%;" />
+<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_59" id="Page_59">[Pg 59]</a></span></p>
+<h2>NOTES</h2>
+
+
+<div class="footnote"><p><a name="Footnote_1_1" id="Footnote_1_1"></a><a href="#FNanchor_1_1"><span class="label">[1]</span></a>
+Almon's <i>Remembrancer</i>, 1779.</p></div>
+
+<div class="footnote"><p><a name="Footnote_2_2" id="Footnote_2_2"></a><a href="#FNanchor_2_2"><span class="label">[2]</span></a>
+First edition, Philadelphia, 1779, and second edition, Danvers,
+Massachusetts, 1780; also printed in <i>Connecticut Gazette and Universal
+Intelligencer</i>, February 2, 1780.</p></div>
+
+<div class="footnote"><p><a name="Footnote_3_3" id="Footnote_3_3"></a><a href="#FNanchor_3_3"><span class="label">[3]</span></a>
+<i>Virginia State Papers</i>, 1, 321.</p></div>
+
+<div class="footnote"><p><a name="Footnote_4_4" id="Footnote_4_4"></a><a href="#FNanchor_4_4"><span class="label">[4]</span></a>
+<i>Dodge Genealogy</i>, page 137. <i>American Ancestry</i>, 6, 192. The sketch
+in <i>The Magazine of Western History</i>, 4, 282, contains many errors.</p></div>
+
+<div class="footnote"><p><a name="Footnote_5_5" id="Footnote_5_5"></a><a href="#FNanchor_5_5"><span class="label">[5]</span></a>
+<i>Wayne County Records</i>, B. 9, 91.</p></div>
+
+<div class="footnote"><p><a name="Footnote_6_6" id="Footnote_6_6"></a><a href="#FNanchor_6_6"><span class="label">[6]</span></a>
+If this date is correct it would appear that Dodge was in Detroit
+before he was brought there as a captive.</p></div>
+
+<div class="footnote"><p><a name="Footnote_7_7" id="Footnote_7_7"></a><a href="#FNanchor_7_7"><span class="label">[7]</span></a>
+Manuscript, British Museum.</p></div>
+
+<div class="footnote"><p><a name="Footnote_8_8" id="Footnote_8_8"></a><a href="#FNanchor_8_8"><span class="label">[8]</span></a>
+For a history of the Montour family see Egle's <i>Notes and Queries</i>,
+3rd series, 1, 118. John Montour was arrested and confined in Detroit in
+1778. See <i>Michigan Historical Society Collections</i>, 9, 434.</p></div>
+
+<div class="footnote"><p><a name="Footnote_9_9" id="Footnote_9_9"></a><a href="#FNanchor_9_9"><span class="label">[9]</span></a>
+<i>Michigan Historical Society Collections</i>, 9, 512.</p></div>
+
+<div class="footnote"><p><a name="Footnote_10_10" id="Footnote_10_10"></a><a href="#FNanchor_10_10"><span class="label">[10]</span></a>
+<i>Fergus Historical Series</i>, number 31, page 62. See also number 33,
+pages 159, 182, 183, 209; also <i>Calendar of Virginia State Papers</i>, 1, 367.</p></div>
+
+<div class="footnote"><p><a name="Footnote_11_11" id="Footnote_11_11"></a><a href="#FNanchor_11_11"><span class="label">[11]</span></a>
+<i>American State Papers</i>, <i>Public Lands</i>, Volume 1, (Gales and
+Seaton), 106, 110. A letter from John Rice Jones on file in the Interior
+Department, dated January 18, 1800, states that Dodge and his wife were
+both dead.</p></div>
+
+<div class="footnote"><p><a name="Footnote_12_12" id="Footnote_12_12"></a><a href="#FNanchor_12_12"><span class="label">[12]</span></a>
+Letter from Henry L. Caldwell to Louise M. Dalton, Missouri
+Historical Society, dated December 4, 1906. Mr. Caldwell died April 11,
+1907, a very old man. Miss Dalton was secretary of the Missouri
+Historical Society and died in June of the same year.</p></div>
+
+<div class="footnote"><p><a name="Footnote_13_13" id="Footnote_13_13"></a><a href="#FNanchor_13_13"><span class="label">[13]</span></a>
+A little information is obtained from the Ste. Genevieve records,
+now in possession of the Missouri Historical Society, and a letter of
+John Rice Jones now on file in the Interior Department at Washington.
+The Jones letter is dated January 18, 1800, and in it he says that John
+Dodge was married somewhere in Virginia and that both Dodge and his wife
+are dead. From the other records it appears that the wife's name was
+Ann.</p></div>
+
+<div class="footnote"><p><a name="Footnote_14_14" id="Footnote_14_14"></a><a href="#FNanchor_14_14"><span class="label">[14]</span></a>
+Wood was a Revolutionary soldier and officer of considerable
+importance, and was elected Governor of Virginia, serving from December
+1, 1796, till December 1, 1799. He died July 16, 1813. <i>American
+Archives</i>, 4th Series, Volume 4, 110-115. See also same series, Volume
+2, 1209, 1240. Wood's <i>Journal</i> is in <i>The Revolution on the Upper
+Ohio</i>, page 34. <i>Old Westmoreland</i>, 18. <i>American Archives</i>, 4th Series,
+Volume 3, 1542.</p></div>
+
+
+
+<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_60" id="Page_60">[Pg 60]</a></span></p>
+<hr style="width: 65%;" />
+<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_61" id="Page_61">[Pg 61]</a></span></p>
+<h2>INDEX</h2>
+
+
+<p>
+Antanya, Michael, assists Dodge, <a href="#Page_15">15</a>.<br />
+<br />
+Beaver Creek (Bever Criek), <a href="#Page_9">9</a>.<br />
+Blair, Archibald, <a href="#Page_23">23</a>.<br />
+Boston, visited by Dodge, <a href="#Page_7">7</a>, <a href="#Page_15">15</a>;<br />
+<span style="margin-left: 1em;">Dodge meets General Gage there, <a href="#Page_56">56</a>.</span><br />
+Boyle, Philip, letter to, <a href="#Page_15">15</a>.<br />
+Butler, Mr., aids Dodge in inducing Indians to make treaty, <a href="#Page_31">31</a>.<br />
+<br />
+Caldwell, Henry L., grandson of Israel Dodge, <a href="#Page_14">14</a>.<br />
+Canada, Dodge proposes to invade, <a href="#Page_9">9</a>.<br />
+
+Carleton, Sir Guy, Governor in Chief of Michigan Territory, <a href="#Page_19">19</a>;<br />
+<span style="margin-left: 1em;">Mr. Jones reads letter from, <a href="#Page_55">55</a>.</span><br />
+
+Carlisle (Pennsylvania), Israel Dodge marries Ann Hunter at, <a href="#Page_14">14</a>.<br />
+
+Clark, Gen. George Rogers, of Virginia, captures Lieut.-Gov. Hamilton, <a href="#Page_13">13</a>;<br />
+<span style="margin-left: 1em;">takes possession of the Western Illinois country, <a href="#Page_17">17</a>;</span><br />
+<span style="margin-left: 1em;">letters to Congress considered by board, <a href="#Page_19">19</a>.</span><br />
+
+Clark, Mr., Dodge's letter to Congress referred to, <a href="#Page_19">19</a>.<br />
+
+Congress, Dodge visits, <a href="#Page_7">7</a>, <a href="#Page_56">56</a>;<br />
+<span style="margin-left: 1em;">writes letter to, <a href="#Page_9">9</a>, <a href="#Page_9">9</a>, <a href="#Page_10">10</a>, <a href="#Page_11">11</a>, <a href="#Page_12">12</a>, <a href="#Page_13">13</a>;</span><br />
+<span style="margin-left: 1em;">reports adversely to suggestions in letter, <a href="#Page_13">13</a>;</span><br />
+<span style="margin-left: 1em;">Dodge writes second letter to, <a href="#Page_17">17</a>, <a href="#Page_18">18</a>;</span><br />
+<span style="margin-left: 1em;">Committee of, report on the John Dodge report, <a href="#Page_19">19</a>;</span><br />
+<span style="margin-left: 1em;">Commissioners of, treat with Indians, <a href="#Page_32">32</a>;</span><br />
+<span style="margin-left: 1em;">Dodge informs, of council with Indians at Sandusky, <a href="#Page_32">32</a>.</span><br />
+
+Congressional Board, the, reports on letters of Colonel Clark and others relating to Hamilton, Dejean and Lamothe, <a href="#Page_19">19</a>, <a href="#Page_20">20</a>, <a href="#Page_21">21</a>, <a href="#Page_22">22</a>, <a href="#Page_23">23</a>;<br />
+<span style="margin-left: 1em;">recommends punishment to be inflicted upon these prisoners, <a href="#Page_23">23</a>.</span><br />
+
+Connecticut, birthplace of Dodge 15;<br />
+<span style="margin-left: 1em;">Dodge leaves, <a href="#Page_29">29</a>.</span><br />
+
+Continental talk, <a href="#Page_32">32</a>, <a href="#Page_33">33</a>.<br />
+<br />
+
+Dejean, Philip, prisoner of war, <a href="#Page_13">13</a>;<br />
+<span style="margin-left: 1em;">Justice of the Peace for Detroit, <a href="#Page_19">19</a>;</span><br />
+<span style="margin-left: 1em;">prisoner of war, <a href="#Page_19">19</a>;</span><br />
+<span style="margin-left: 1em;">his cruel treatment of Dodge and other prisoners, <a href="#Page_20">20</a>, <a href="#Page_21">21</a>, <a href="#Page_35">35</a>, <a href="#Page_36">36</a>, <a href="#Page_37">37</a>, <a href="#Page_38">38</a>, <a href="#Page_39">39</a>, <a href="#Page_47">47</a>, <a href="#Page_48">48</a>;</span><br />
+<span style="margin-left: 1em;">captured by Colonel Clark of Virginia at Fort St. Vincent (Vincennes), <a href="#Page_28">28</a>;</span><br />
+<span style="margin-left: 1em;">imprisons Dodge a second time, <a href="#Page_45">45</a>;</span><br />
+<span style="margin-left: 1em;">informs Hamilton concerning Dodge, <a href="#Page_48">48</a>;</span><br />
+<span style="margin-left: 1em;">seizes Dodge and companions near Sandusky, <a href="#Page_51">51</a>;</span><br />
+<span style="margin-left: 1em;">examines Dodge's papers, <a href="#Page_51">51</a>.</span><br />
+
+Detroit, John Dodge locates there, <a href="#Page_6">6</a>;<br />
+<span style="margin-left: 1em;">refers in letter to its garrison, <a href="#Page_9">9</a>;</span><br />
+<span style="margin-left: 1em;">Governor of, bribes savages, <a href="#Page_9">9</a>;</span><br />
+<span style="margin-left: 1em;">proposes to take by force, <a href="#Page_10">10</a>;</span><br />
+<span style="margin-left: 1em;">visits, <a href="#Page_15">15</a>.</span><br />
+
+Dodge, Henry, son of Israel Dodge, <a href="#Page_14">14</a>;<br />
+<span style="margin-left: 1em;">born October 12, 1872, <a href="#Page_14">14</a>;</span><br />
+<span style="margin-left: 1em;">first Governor of Wisconsin Territory, <a href="#Page_14">14</a>.</span><br />
+
+Dodge, Ann Hunter, wife of Israel Dodge, <a href="#Page_14">14</a>.<br />
+
+Dodge, Israel, brother of John Dodge, <a href="#Page_6">6</a>;<br />
+<span style="margin-left: 1em;">commissioned as lieutenant, <a href="#Page_14">14</a>.</span><br />
+
+Dodge, John, birth, <a href="#Page_6">6</a>;<br />
+<span style="margin-left: 1em;">parentage, <a href="#Page_6">6</a>;</span><br />
+<span style="margin-left: 1em;">early life as a trader, <a href="#Page_6">6</a>;</span><br />
+<span style="margin-left: 1em;">purchases land, <a href="#Page_6">6</a>;</span><br />
+<span style="margin-left: 1em;">confined in jail, <a href="#Page_7">7</a>;</span><br />
+<span style="margin-left: 1em;">appointed Indian Agent by Virginia, <a href="#Page_14">14</a>;</span><br />
+<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_62" id="Page_62">[Pg 62]</a></span><span style="margin-left: 1em;">lays claim to western lands, <a href="#Page_14">14</a>;</span><br />
+<span style="margin-left: 1em;">patents issued to his heirs, <a href="#Page_14">14</a>;</span><br />
+<span style="margin-left: 1em;">date of death, <a href="#Page_14">14</a>;</span><br />
+<span style="margin-left: 1em;">place of burial, <a href="#Page_14">14</a>;</span><br />
+<span style="margin-left: 1em;">holds commission as colonel, <a href="#Page_14">14</a>;</span><br />
+<span style="margin-left: 1em;">places visited in his travels, <a href="#Page_15">15</a>;</span><br />
+<span style="margin-left: 1em;">writes second letter to Congress, <a href="#Page_16">16</a>, <a href="#Page_17">17</a>;</span><br />
+<span style="margin-left: 1em;">acts as interpreter for Captain Wood, <a href="#Page_29">29</a>;</span><br />
+<span style="margin-left: 1em;">makes present to Indians, <a href="#Page_32">32</a>, <a href="#Page_33">33</a>;</span><br />
+<span style="margin-left: 1em;">writes to Hamilton, <a href="#Page_33">33</a>;</span><br />
+<span style="margin-left: 1em;">taken prisoner by Indians at instigation of Hamilton, <a href="#Page_33">33</a>;</span><br />
+<span style="margin-left: 1em;">taken to Detroit, <a href="#Page_33">33</a>;</span><br />
+<span style="margin-left: 1em;">condemned to death, <a href="#Page_34">34</a>, <a href="#Page_35">35</a>;</span><br />
+<span style="margin-left: 1em;">his suffering and sickness in prison, <a href="#Page_34">34</a>, <a href="#Page_35">35</a>, <a href="#Page_36">36</a>, <a href="#Page_37">37</a>, <a href="#Page_38">38</a>;</span><br />
+<span style="margin-left: 1em;">released from prison, <a href="#Page_39">39</a>;</span><br />
+<span style="margin-left: 1em;">his property confiscated, <a href="#Page_40">40</a>;</span><br />
+<span style="margin-left: 1em;">engages in mercantile business, <a href="#Page_41">41</a>;</span><br />
+<span style="margin-left: 1em;">rescues prisoner, <a href="#Page_43">43</a>, <a href="#Page_44">44</a>;</span><br />
+<span style="margin-left: 1em;">taken captive by Dejean, <a href="#Page_45">45</a>;</span><br />
+<span style="margin-left: 1em;">called before Commandant Mountpresent, <a href="#Page_46">46</a>;</span><br />
+<span style="margin-left: 1em;">ordered to prison, <a href="#Page_46">46</a>;</span><br />
+<span style="margin-left: 1em;">released, <a href="#Page_47">47</a>;</span><br />
+<span style="margin-left: 1em;">threatened by Hamilton, <a href="#Page_50">50</a>;</span><br />
+<span style="margin-left: 1em;">goes to Sandusky, <a href="#Page_51">51</a>;</span><br />
+<span style="margin-left: 1em;">seized by Dejean, <a href="#Page_51">51</a>;</span><br />
+<span style="margin-left: 1em;">cast into goal, <a href="#Page_52">52</a>;</span><br />
+<span style="margin-left: 1em;">his property confiscated second time, <a href="#Page_52">52</a>;</span><br />
+<span style="margin-left: 1em;">brought before Mr. Printices, Provost Marshal at Quebec, <a href="#Page_53">53</a>;</span><br />
+<span style="margin-left: 1em;">put on board prison ship <i>Mariah</i>, <a href="#Page_53">53</a>;</span><br />
+<span style="margin-left: 1em;">visited by Mr. Murray, Commissary of Prisoners, <a href="#Page_53">53</a>;</span><br />
+<span style="margin-left: 1em;">paroled, <a href="#Page_54">54</a>;</span><br />
+<span style="margin-left: 1em;">encounter with Mr. Jones, <a href="#Page_55">55</a>;</span><br />
+<span style="margin-left: 1em;">forced to give bonds, <a href="#Page_55">55</a>;</span><br />
+<span style="margin-left: 1em;">leaves Quebec, <a href="#Page_56">56</a>;</span><br />
+<span style="margin-left: 1em;">arrives at Boston, <a href="#Page_56">56</a>;</span><br />
+<span style="margin-left: 1em;">sent by Gates to General Washington, <a href="#Page_56">56</a>;</span><br />
+<span style="margin-left: 1em;">appears before Congress, <a href="#Page_56">56</a>.</span><br />
+
+Dodge, John, Sr., father of John Dodge, <a href="#Page_6">6</a>.<br />
+
+Dodge, Lydia Rogers, wife of John Dodge, <a href="#Page_6">6</a>.<br />
+
+Dodge Narrative, time and place, <a href="#Page_5">5</a>;<br />
+<span style="margin-left: 1em;">importance, <a href="#Page_5">5</a>;</span><br />
+<span style="margin-left: 1em;">reprints, <a href="#Page_5">5</a>.</span><br />
+<br />
+
+Edgar, John;<br />
+<span style="margin-left: 1em;">Dodge attempts to carry off slaves of, <a href="#Page_15">15</a>;</span><br />
+<span style="margin-left: 1em;">old friend of Dodge, <a href="#Page_15">15</a>;</span><br />
+<span style="margin-left: 1em;">arrested and confined at Detroit, <a href="#Page_15">15</a>, <a href="#Page_16">16</a>;</span><br />
+<span style="margin-left: 1em;">witness for Dodge, <a href="#Page_16">16</a>.</span><br />
+<br />
+
+Fort Pitt, (Pittsburg), Dodge's visit to, <a href="#Page_9">9</a>;<br />
+<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_63" id="Page_63">[Pg 63]</a></span><span style="margin-left: 1em;">conference with Indians at, <a href="#Page_16">16</a>;</span><br />
+<span style="margin-left: 1em;">speech of Shengenaba at, <a href="#Page_16">16</a>.</span><br />
+<br />
+
+Gates, General, Dodge visits at Boston, <a href="#Page_56">56</a>.<br />
+
+Gibson, John, agent for Indian affairs, <a href="#Page_32">32</a>.<br />
+<br />
+
+Hamilton, Lieut. Gov. Henry, cruelties and irregularities of his rule in Detroit, <a href="#Page_5">5</a>;<br />
+<span style="margin-left: 1em;">indicted for murder, <a href="#Page_5">5</a>;</span><br />
+<span style="margin-left: 1em;">confined in irons, <a href="#Page_6">6</a>;</span><br />
+<span style="margin-left: 1em;">sends Dodge as prisoner to Quebec, <a href="#Page_7">7</a>;</span><br />
+<span style="margin-left: 1em;">bribes savages, <a href="#Page_9">9</a>;</span><br />
+<span style="margin-left: 1em;">captured by Gen. George Rogers Clark, <a href="#Page_13">13</a>;</span><br />
+<span style="margin-left: 1em;">released from prison and reinstated as lieutenant governor of Canada, <a href="#Page_14">14</a>;</span><br />
+<span style="margin-left: 1em;">letters of Colonel Clark relating to, <a href="#Page_19">19</a>;</span><br />
+<span style="margin-left: 1em;">incites Indians to perpetrate cruelties, <a href="#Page_20">20</a>;</span><br />
+<span style="margin-left: 1em;">Committee's report as to his treatment of John Dodge, <a href="#Page_20">20</a>, <a href="#Page_21">21</a>;</span><br />
+<span style="margin-left: 1em;">gives standing reward for scalps, <a href="#Page_21">21</a>, <a href="#Page_32">32</a>;</span><br />
+<span style="margin-left: 1em;">capture by Colonel Clark at Fort St. Vincent (Vincennes), <a href="#Page_28">28</a>;</span><br />
+<span style="margin-left: 1em;">dissuades Indians from assembling at Fort Pitt, <a href="#Page_30">30</a>, <a href="#Page_31">31</a>;</span><br />
+<span style="margin-left: 1em;">Dodge writes letter to, <a href="#Page_33">33</a>;</span><br />
+<span style="margin-left: 1em;">throws Dodge into prison at Detroit, <a href="#Page_34">34</a>;</span><br />
+<span style="margin-left: 1em;">advises Dodge not to try to obtain redress, <a href="#Page_40">40</a>;</span><br />
+<span style="margin-left: 1em;">orders Dodge to march with scouting party of savages, <a href="#Page_41">41</a>;</span><br />
+<span style="margin-left: 1em;">threatens Dodge, <a href="#Page_42">42</a>, <a href="#Page_50">50</a>;</span><br />
+<span style="margin-left: 1em;">succeeded by Captain Mountpresent, <a href="#Page_42">42</a>;</span><br />
+<span style="margin-left: 1em;">returns to Detroit, <a href="#Page_49">49</a>;</span><br />
+<span style="margin-left: 1em;">orders Dodge detained at Quebec, <a href="#Page_54">54</a>, <a href="#Page_55">55</a>.</span><br />
+
+Harman papers, their reference to Dodge, <a href="#Page_15">15</a>.<br />
+
+Henry, Moses;<br />
+<span style="margin-left: 1em;">Henry Dodge, his namesake, <a href="#Page_14">14</a>;</span><br />
+<span style="margin-left: 1em;">his bravery at Vincennes, <a href="#Page_14">14</a>, <a href="#Page_15">15</a>.</span><br />
+
+Henry, Patrick, commissions Dodge as Colonel, <a href="#Page_14">14</a>.<br />
+
+Heron, James, aids Dodge in inducing Indians to make treaty, <a href="#Page_31">31</a>.<br />
+<br />
+
+Illinois (Islianoy) Country, the, Dodge refers to it in letter to Congress, <a href="#Page_17">17</a>, <a href="#Page_18">18</a>;<br />
+<span style="margin-left: 1em;">effect of its occupancy by troops under Col. Clark, <a href="#Page_17">17</a>, <a href="#Page_18">18</a>.</span><br />
+<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_64" id="Page_64">[Pg 64]</a></span>
+Indians, bribed by Hamilton, <a href="#Page_9">9</a>;<br />
+<span style="margin-left: 1em;">offered standing reward for scalps, <a href="#Page_21">21</a>;</span><br />
+<span style="margin-left: 1em;">invited by Capt. James Wood to a treaty at Fort Pitt, <a href="#Page_16">16</a>, <a href="#Page_29">29</a>;</span><br />
+<span style="margin-left: 1em;">dissuaded by Hamilton from assembling at Fort Pitt, <a href="#Page_29">29</a>, <a href="#Page_30">30</a>;</span><br />
+<span style="margin-left: 1em;">persuaded by argument of Dodge and Heron, <a href="#Page_31">31</a>;</span><br />
+<span style="margin-left: 1em;">make treaty with Commissioners of Congress, <a href="#Page_32">32</a>;</span><br />
+<span style="margin-left: 1em;">their cruelty to prisoners, <a href="#Page_42">42</a>, <a href="#Page_43">43</a>, <a href="#Page_44">44</a>.</span><br />
+<br />
+
+Jones, John Rice, letter from, <a href="#Page_15">15</a>.<br />
+
+Jones, Mr., in company with Dodge, <a href="#Page_55">55</a>.<br />
+<br />
+
+Kaskaskia, Dodge located there as Indian Agent, <a href="#Page_14">14</a>;<br />
+<span style="margin-left: 1em;">visits, <a href="#Page_15">15</a>;</span><br />
+<span style="margin-left: 1em;">writes letter from, <a href="#Page_15">15</a>.</span><br />
+
+Kichoga, <a href="#Page_9">9</a>.<br />
+<br />
+
+Lafleur, Joseph Poupard, sells land to Dodge, <a href="#Page_6">6</a>.<br />
+
+Lamothe, William (Le Mote), prisoner of war, <a href="#Page_13">13</a>, <a href="#Page_19">19</a>;<br />
+<span style="margin-left: 1em;">Captain of Volunteers, <a href="#Page_19">19</a>;</span><br />
+<span style="margin-left: 1em;">captain of volunteer scalping party of Indians and whites, <a href="#Page_20">20</a>;</span><br />
+<span style="margin-left: 1em;">his capture by Col. Clark, of Virginia at Fort St. Vincent (Vincennes), <a href="#Page_28">28</a>;</span><br />
+<span style="margin-left: 1em;">commands scouting Indians, <a href="#Page_41">41</a>, <a href="#Page_42">42</a>.</span><br />
+<br />
+
+Mackinac, <a href="#Page_7">7</a>.<br />
+
+<i>Mariah</i>, prison ship, Dodge confined on, <a href="#Page_53">53</a>.<br />
+
+McIntosh, General, marches from Beaver Creek, <a href="#Page_9">9</a>;<br />
+<span style="margin-left: 1em;">Dodge censures in letter to Congress, <a href="#Page_11">11</a>.</span><br />
+
+Michilimackinac, Dodge trades at, <a href="#Page_41">41</a>;<br />
+<span style="margin-left: 1em;">arranges to send rescued prisoner there, <a href="#Page_45">45</a>.</span><br />
+
+Missouri Historical Society, references to Dodge, <a href="#Page_15">15</a>.<br />
+
+Montgomery, General, Dodge speaks in his defense, <a href="#Page_55">55</a>.<br />
+
+Montour, John, letter to from Dodge, <a href="#Page_9">9</a>.<br />
+
+Mountpresent, Capt., <a href="#Page_42">42</a>, <a href="#Page_47">47</a>, <a href="#Page_50">50</a>.<br />
+
+Morgan, Col., his arrival at Pittsburg, <a href="#Page_12">12</a>;<br />
+<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_65" id="Page_65">[Pg 65]</a></span>
+<span style="margin-left: 1em;">sends message to the Indian (Endian) Nations, <a href="#Page_12">12</a>.</span><br />
+
+Murray, Mr., Commissary of Prisoners, visits Dodge, <a href="#Page_53">53</a>;<br />
+<span style="margin-left: 1em;">informs Dodge that he is not to go with prisoners, <a href="#Page_54">54</a>.</span><br />
+<br />
+
+New Orleans, <a href="#Page_15">15</a>.<br />
+
+New York, visited by Dodge, <a href="#Page_15">15</a>.<br />
+<br />
+
+Ohio District, John Dodge in, <a href="#Page_6">6</a>.<br />
+<br />
+
+Patridge, Mr., Dodge's letter to Congress referred to, <a href="#Page_19">19</a>.<br />
+
+Philadelphia, visited by Dodge, <a href="#Page_15">15</a>.<br />
+
+Piankeshaw Indians, <a href="#Page_15">15</a>.<br />
+
+Pittsburg (Fort Pitt), Dodge visits, <a href="#Page_15">15</a>.<br />
+
+Pontiac, his son Shegenaba speaks at Fort Pitt, <a href="#Page_16">16</a>, <a href="#Page_17">17</a>.<br />
+
+Presque Isle (Preskeele), <a href="#Page_9">9</a>.<br />
+
+Printice, Mr., Provost Marshal of Quebec, <a href="#Page_53">53</a>.<br />
+
+Pue, Jacob, of Virginia, hired to attend fellow prisoner, <a href="#Page_47">47</a>.<br />
+<br />
+
+Quebec, John Dodge sent as prisoner to, <a href="#Page_7">7</a>, <a href="#Page_53">53</a>;<br />
+<span style="margin-left: 1em;">escapes, <a href="#Page_7">7</a>;</span><br />
+<span style="margin-left: 1em;">visited by Dodge, <a href="#Page_15">15</a>.</span><br />
+<br />
+
+Sandusky (Ohio), Dodge locates there as a trader, <a href="#Page_6">6</a>, <a href="#Page_29">29</a>;<br />
+<span style="margin-left: 1em;">visits, <a href="#Page_15">15</a>;</span><br />
+<span style="margin-left: 1em;">disturbed by Revolutionary War, <a href="#Page_29">29</a>;</span><br />
+<span style="margin-left: 1em;">Savages hostile in, <a href="#Page_32">32</a>.</span><br />
+
+Shawnee Indians, <a href="#Page_16">16</a>.<br />
+
+Shegenaba, son of Pontiac, speech at Fort Pitt, <a href="#Page_16">16</a>, <a href="#Page_17">17</a>.<br />
+
+Ste Genevieve (Mo.), Dodge buried at, <a href="#Page_14">14</a>;<br />
+<span style="margin-left: 1em;">Dodge visits, <a href="#Page_15">15</a>.</span><br />
+
+Sugar Creek (Shugar Criek), <a href="#Page_9">9</a>.<br />
+<br />
+
+Tanisee River, the, Hamilton appoints council of Indians to meet at the mouth of, <a href="#Page_20">20</a>.<br />
+
+Tucker, William, has negotiations with John Dodge, <a href="#Page_6">6</a>.<br />
+<br />
+
+Vincennes (Ind.), George Rogers Clark at, <a href="#Page_13">13</a>;<br />
+<span style="margin-left: 1em;">captured by Gov. Hamilton, <a href="#Page_14">14</a>;</span><br />
+<span style="margin-left: 1em;">visited by Dodge, <a href="#Page_16">16</a>;</span><br />
+<span style="margin-left: 1em;">Hamilton, Dejean, and Lamothe taken prisoners at, <a href="#Page_28">28</a>.</span><br />
+<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_66" id="Page_66">[Pg 66]</a></span>
+Virginia, Council of, letters and narratives of Dodge read by members of, <a href="#Page_13">13</a>;<br />
+<span style="margin-left: 1em;">recommends the punishment of Henry Hamilton, Philip Dejean and Wm. La Mothe, <a href="#Page_13">13</a>;</span><br />
+<span style="margin-left: 1em;">expenses in connection with the Illinois country, <a href="#Page_17">17</a>.</span><br />
+<br />
+
+Washington, Gen. George, Dodge meets him, <a href="#Page_7">7</a>, <a href="#Page_56">56</a>.<br />
+
+Williamsburg  (Va.),  Hamilton taken to by Clark, <a href="#Page_13">13</a>.<br />
+
+Wolcot, Mr., Dodge's letter to Congress referred to, <a href="#Page_19">19</a>.<br />
+
+Wood, James, appointed to command expedition against the Shawnee, <a href="#Page_16">16</a>;<br />
+<span style="margin-left: 1em;">deputed to invite Western Indians to a treaty at Fort Pitt, <a href="#Page_16">16</a>, <a href="#Page_29">29</a>;</span><br />
+<span style="margin-left: 1em;">his fatigues, difficulties and dangers, <a href="#Page_16">16</a>;</span><br />
+<span style="margin-left: 1em;">his compensation, <a href="#Page_16">16</a>;</span><br />
+<span style="margin-left: 1em;">meeting with the Indians, <a href="#Page_16">16</a>;</span><br />
+<span style="margin-left: 1em;">calls at the house of Dodge, <a href="#Page_29">29</a>.</span>
+</p>
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+The Project Gutenberg EBook of Narrative of Mr. John Dodge during his
+Captivity at Detroit, by John Dodge
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+Title: Narrative of Mr. John Dodge during his Captivity at Detroit
+
+Author: John Dodge
+
+Annotator: Clarence Monroe Burton
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+                       THE DODGE NARRATIVE, 1780
+                           FACSIMILE REPRINT
+
+
+
+           _Sixty-three copies printed sixty being for sale_
+
+
+
+                               NARRATIVE
+                                  OF
+                            MR. JOHN DODGE
+                         DURING HIS CAPTIVITY
+                              AT DETROIT
+
+                   REPRODUCED IN FACSIMILE FROM THE
+                        SECOND EDITION OF 1780
+
+                       WITH AN INTRODUCTORY NOTE
+                                  BY
+                        CLARENCE MONROE BURTON
+
+                            [Illustration]
+
+                          CEDAR RAPIDS, IOWA
+                            THE TORCH PRESS
+                         NINETEEN HUNDRED NINE
+
+
+
+
+                          THE DODGE NARRATIVE
+
+
+The narrative of John Dodge is one of the records of frontier life
+during the period of the American Revolution that displays the intense
+feeling of hatred and unfairness evinced by the British soldiers to the
+American rebels. It was written and published during the time of the
+greatest excitement in the West--the scene of the Narrative--and is
+historically valuable because of being contemporary with the events in
+question.
+
+It was considered of great importance at the time of its first
+appearance, having been at once reprinted in England[1] and passed
+through at least three editions in America.[2]
+
+In other writings published in England in 1779, appear the first public
+notice of the cruelties and gross irregularities in the administration
+of justice in Detroit under the rule of Lieutenant Governor Henry
+Hamilton, and the presentment of Hamilton by the grand jury of Montreal
+for murder in the execution of a Frenchman convicted of stealing. From
+the Narrative were taken the charges made against Hamilton, when he was
+a prisoner in Williamsburg, in consequence of which he was confined in
+irons and barely escaped a more serious, and perhaps even a capital
+punishment.[3] But little at the present time can be ascertained of
+Dodge. He was born in Connecticut, July 12, 1751, and was the son of
+John Dodge and his wife, Lydia Rogers.[4] John Dodge, the father, was a
+Baptist minister by profession and a blacksmith by trade. His son John
+was one of a numerous family of children. His brother Israel, who was
+with him in the West, was nine years his junior, having been born
+September 3, 1760. Before John had reached his nineteenth year he had
+wandered into the northern part of the Ohio district and had entered
+into business as a trader in Sandusky. He was familiar with the Indian
+language used in his neighborhood and frequently acted as interpreter.
+
+Many of the events of his life from this time, are contained in his
+Narrative and it is needless to repeat them here, but mention might be
+made of other acts of his and records pertaining to him, of which he
+makes no mention. On the fourth day of April, 1776, Dodge, with William
+Tucker, purchased a house and lot in Detroit, from Joseph Poupard
+Lafleur, for 3,000 livres, and a few days later Tucker agreed to repay
+Dodge whatever sums he had paid for this house if Dodge "went down the
+country," as he then contemplated.[5] Dodge did not go "down the
+country," but remained in Detroit and sold his interest in the land to
+William Tucker July 6, 1777. In this deed Dodge is described as "a
+trader of Detroit," and it is stated that he bought the house and lot
+of Lafleur June 7, 1774.[6] His Narrative does not agree with the
+records in all cases, for he says he was confined in jail from January
+to July, 1776, in daily expectation of death, while the records show
+that he purchased this house and lot during this period. The story of
+the rescue of a prisoner from the Indians, related in his Narrative, is
+contained in the report of the Virginia Council of June 16, 1779.
+Sometimes at liberty, engaged in trading, and sometimes confined in jail
+as a rebel, he remained in Detroit and Mackinac till May, 1778, when he
+was sent down to Quebec, at which place he arrived on the first day of
+June.
+
+In the reports of rebel prisoners at Quebec in June and July, 1778, are
+three entries referring to Dodge as follows: "John Dodge, 24 years old,
+from Connecticut, a trader settled at Detroit for seven years, sent down
+by Lieutenant Governor Hamilton. His commercial effects at Detroit.
+Taken up on suspicion of having been in arms with the rebels."[7] He
+remained in Quebec until the ninth day of the following October when he
+escaped, going first to Boston and subsequently to General Washington.
+Dodge does not state where or when he met Washington, but as the General
+was in attendance at Congress from December 21, 1778, until some time in
+the following January, he probably met him at Philadelphia. Dodge says
+he visited Congress "having some matters relating to Canada worthy their
+hearing." This related to the "certain expedition" referred to by
+Washington in his letter of December 29th, a proposition to invade
+Canada. Dodge was at Fort Pitt in the early part of January, 1779, and
+from that port wrote a letter to John Montour.[8] There is no record of
+Dodge's appearance before Congress, but he wrote a letter on the
+subject, to Congress, as follows:
+
+  Honorable Congress
+
+                                            Pitsburg Jeneary 25 1779--
+
+  as I have Ben one of the grateest Suferers that is now in the united
+  States of Ameraca Both in Person and Property
+
+  I have Sufferd Every thing But Death Robd Plundered of Every far
+  thing that I was master of But loock upon it as an honour that I
+  have Suffard in so just a Cause as we are now Engagd in and very
+  happy that I have made my Escape from the Enemi after Being Prisener
+  two years and nine months I think it my Duty as I am now in the
+  Service of the united States to Enform your honnours of the
+  Proceedings and Carriings on in the Department whare I am--it Both
+  greaves and Shagrans me to the hart to Se matters so Ill Conduckted
+  as theay are in this Department--it is very natural for Every one
+  that has the Cause of his Contry at hart to Enquire into the reason
+  of our grevences--is not one the farmers Being Drove of thair
+  Plantation on our fronteers By the Saveges--Could theay remaind on
+  thair Plantations theay Could have Ben very Sarvesable in Suppliing
+  our main army in Provisions in Stead of that the Poor mifortonate
+  Peopel are obleged to retreet into the thick Setled Contry and I may
+  Say live almost upon the Charrity of the Contry which of consequence
+  must Distress the hole Contry for Provisions we will Enquire why
+  those Saveges are our Enemies theay are Bribd By the British to
+  take up the hachet against us whare is thair rendevous Detroit a
+  place Stockaded in with Cedar Pickets and Eighty Soldiers to gard it
+  But it is Strong Enough to keep a large Quantity of goods in so the
+  British Can and Do give near a millian Presents to Bribe the Saveges
+  to fall upon our fronteers and Distress our hole Contry--But we will
+  Suppose that Place to Be Esily taken which it raly is if matters
+  ware Conducted as theay ought to Be--But we will Say that the
+  Publick has Ben at grate Expence for two years Past and thare is
+  nothing Done I may Say nothing thare is a fort Bult at Bever Criek
+  and one at tuskerowayes which if theay are not rainforst with men
+  and Provisions very Spedily we have no reason to think But theay
+  will fall into the hands of the Enemi in the Spring now had one of
+  those forts Ben Bult at Preskeele or Kichoga or any whare on the
+  lake side the men might have Ben Employed this winter in Boulding of
+  Boats or gundelows So that in the Spring we Could Command the lakes
+  which if we Dont we Cant keep Detroit if we take it or if the winter
+  had Seveir we Could have gone on the ice and taken Detroit and
+  vessels to and with half the men that it would have taken at any
+  other Season of the year for the vessels would Be all froze up But
+  in Stead of that theay are Bult in an Endian Contry whare that all
+  Supplies may Be very Esily Cut of and give the Saveges Susspicon
+  that we are a going to Conker them and not our Enemi the English and
+  very good right theay have after thare has Ben such threats throw
+  out to them as thare has we hant the reason But to Expect then all
+  against us Before general McIntosh marcht from Bever Criek the
+  governer of Detroit Put up a few of the lower Sort of Saveges By
+  Bribing them to Send word to the general that theay would meet him
+  at Shuger Criek and give him Battel at the Same time thare was more
+  than four to one Sent him word that theay would not Enterfeir or
+  misleit him on his march as he had told them that he would go to
+  Detroit the general marcht to the Place But thare was not one that
+  apeard against him he then gave word that all those Saveges that Did
+  not Come in within twelve Days time and join him that he would loock
+  upon them as Enemies and use them as Such and that he would Destroy
+  thair hole Contry--now it was an impossibillity for those nation
+  that sent him word that theay would not misleit him to get word in
+  that Short Space of time which the general thought Proper to Set
+  much more Come in--now what Can we Expect But to have them all
+  against us if thare is not Some Spedy rimedy--I Cannot Say what
+  opinion your honours may have of the Saveges But I Can asure you
+  that theay are very numerous thair numbers are not known that thare
+  has not one out of a hundred taken up the hachet against us yet But
+  we Cannot But Expect theay will if there is not Proper Steps taken
+  and that Spedily--we will Supose that the Proper Steps are for us to
+  march threw thair Contry and take Detroit which is Esily Done if
+  matters ware Conducted as theay ought to Be--and By having that in
+  our Possession and the lakes it will Be in our Power to forse all
+  those near nations to Come upon our terms and that will Enduce all
+  the farrons ones to Be upon aliance with us and then we Shall have
+  all the trade of that Extensive Contry Quite from the north west
+  hutsons Bay lake Superier the heads of the macceippia which will
+  make our Contry florish--But we will Say the Publick has Ben at
+  grate Expence for two years Past and we are no nearer now than we
+  was when we fust Set out But what is the reason it is Because thare
+  was Peopel Sent that Knew nothing of the mater the general told me
+  that he was Brought up by the (sic) Sea Shore and that he knew
+  nothing abought Pack horseing in this wooden Contry--I Dont take it
+  upon me to Dictate or Sensure no one But I think that ought to Be
+  Enquired into Before thare was thousands Spent But now it is to
+  recall the horses and Bollocks are Dead the Provisions is Eat the
+  men must have thair Pay it is Sunk lost gone and here we are Still
+  going on in the Same way the general has likewise got the ill will
+  of all his officers the melitia in Protickaler which I am very sorry
+  for as theay are the only Peopel that we have to Depend upon to Do
+  any thing in this Deartment--now if thare was not any one that knew
+  how matters Should have Ben Conducted it would have Ben a meteriel
+  Diference--But thare is a gentlemon of an unblemisht Carrecter who
+  has Singulied himself By leaveing Every thing that was near and Dear
+  to him and Come in to this Quarter of the Contry Prepared Proper
+  talks for the Saveges and as he was grately respected By all those
+  who knew him it had its Entended Effect and I Can asure your
+  honnours that it has Ben the Saving of hundreads of lives and I Can
+  further asure you By various Surcomstances and Credible Intilegence
+  that if he had not have Come and Did what he Did that thare would
+  not have remaind one family this Side alagane mountains--he is Still
+  Striveing to keep them from falling upon us But as here is others
+  here Strieveing to Set them up it will Be a very Difecult matter for
+  him to Do it he has Sent for the Cheifs of the nations to Come in
+  and that thare is Still mercy for them if theay will know thair Duty
+  and as his Enfluence is grate with all those nations who know him I
+  am in hope it will have its Effect But I Should not Be Disapointed
+  if theay Did not after receiveing Such threts as theay have he has
+  like wise at his own Privat Expence hired men and Sent threw the
+  hole Contry abought Detroit and this side found out the Situation of
+  it and when I was Prisener with the British I have heard them often
+  make remarks that if he Did not Come against that we had not another
+  man in our Parts that knew the Situation of the Contry and had the
+  Enfluence with the natives as he had--But whatever knoledge he may
+  have Concarning those matters he has not never had the offer of
+  ordering of them But in Stead of that he has Ben Put under an arest
+  By the fals raports of a Poor Ignorant Set of Peopel which is to the
+  Eternal Shame of our Contry after he had Savd them from Being
+  masacereed By the Saveges that was his reward--now I beg that your
+  Honnours will take it into Consideration and order some Spedy
+  arangement Before this Quarter of the Contry is ruined a house
+  Devided against it Self Cannot Stand and your honnours may rely upon
+  it that is the case here if I have taken to much liberty I Beg your
+  honnours will loock over it as I would not wish to Do more than My
+  Duty--form your most obedient
+
+                                      and humble Servant--John Dodge--
+
+  upon Colo. Morgans arival here he Sent an Express to the Endian
+  nations for them to Come in and thare has two runners jest arived
+  here with Speaches of grate Concequence which I suppose he will
+  acquaint Congress with the Eairliest oppertunity--
+
+              (_in pencil_)
+  Specimen of the Literati of '76--!
+            (_Indorsement_)
+                   Letter from John Dodge
+            Pittsburg 25 Jany 1779
+              Read Feby. 17th.--
+            Referred to the board of war--
+
+This letter or statement was not received by Congress till December
+13, 1781, nearly two years later, and the committee to which it was
+referred, reported adversely to the suggestions contained in it, March
+20, 1782.
+
+Early in 1779, Lieutenant Governor Henry Hamilton was captured
+by General George Rogers Clark at Vincennes and was carried to
+Williamsburg, Virginia, as a prisoner of war. The letters and Narrative
+of Dodge had been read by some members of the Council of Virginia and
+the Council resolved, June 16, 1779, that because of the cruelties
+inflicted by Great Britain on the American prisoners of war, it was
+proper to begin a system of retaliation, and they conclude their
+resolution as follows:--"this board has resolved to advise the governor
+that the said Henry Hamilton, Philip Dejean and William LaMothe,
+prisoners of war, be put in irons, confined in the dungeon of the public
+jail, debarred the use of pen, ink and paper and excluded all converse
+except with their keeper, and the governor orders accordingly." The
+charges preferred by Dodge against Hamilton, were urged as an additional
+reason for confining the latter in jail. Hamilton answered that the
+statements of Dodge were mutual, and that the latter was "an
+unprincipled and perjured renegade."[9]
+
+Hamilton's excuses were not well received, and although no longer
+confined in irons, he remained in prison for some time, but was finally
+released and subsequently returned to Canada as Lieutenant Governor of
+the province.
+
+Dodge was appointed Indian Agent by Virginia and was located in
+Kaskaskia from 1780 to 1788 and possibly until a later date.[10]
+
+When claims of the Revolutionary soldiers to the western lands were
+being considered Dodge laid claim to a section, as a refugee from
+Canada[11] and his heirs were awarded a tract containing 1280 acres in
+the year 1800. This indicates that Dodge died before May 8th of that
+year. Four patents were issued to the heirs of John Dodge for lands in
+town sixteen, range twenty, Ohio, July 12, 1802.
+
+Henry L. Caldwell, a grandson of Israel Dodge, wrote as follows:--"I do
+not know the date of the death of Colonel John Dodge, neither can I
+locate his grave or that of my grandfather, Israel Dodge, but the
+remains of both are, beyond doubt, resting in the old grave yard in Ste.
+Genevieve, Mo., which adjoins the catholic grave yard."[12]
+
+John Dodge, while living at Kaskaskia, held a commission of Colonel
+received from Governor Patrick Henry of Virginia. His brother Israel
+Dodge was a lieutenant under him at that place. Israel had married Ann
+Hunter at Carlisle, Pa., before he moved to the West, and at Vincennes,
+their son Henry, who afterwards became the first Governor of the
+Territory of Wisconsin, was born October 12, 1782. He was named after
+Moses Henry, who was in the fort at Vincennes when it was captured by
+Governor Hamilton in 1778, being the only private in the "Army" which
+held out against the British invader.
+
+There is a letter from John Dodge from Kaskaskia, June 23, 1783,
+informing the Indians that Detroit had been captured by the Americans.
+A false report. Va. St. Pap. 3. 500.
+
+A letter to Philip Boyle at Sandusky, July 13, 1779, in Farmer's Hist.
+of Detroit 1. 173. This letter was intercepted by the British. It
+enclosed the proceedings of the Virginia Council concerning Hamilton.
+
+Dodge was a great traveler in his day. Born in Connecticut in 1751, he
+went to Sandusky, Ohio, in 1770, thence to Fort Pitt (Pittsburg), thence
+back to Sandusky, thence in succession to Detroit, Michillimackinac
+(Mackinac), Detroit, Quebec, Boston, New York, Philadelphia, Fort Pitt,
+Vincennes (Indiana), Kaskaskia (Illinois), Ste. Genevieve (Missouri),
+and New Orleans. We find mention of the man at these places and it is
+very probable that his travels were much more extensive.[13]
+
+In the Harman papers, as reported by the Missouri Historical Society, is
+the following reference to Dodge in a letter from John Rice Jones, dated
+October, 1789: "John Dodge and Michael Antanya, with a party of whites
+and armed Piankeshaw Indians, came over from the Spanish side and
+attempted to carry off some slaves of Mr. John Edgar, and otherwise were
+guilty of outlandish conduct, threatening to burn the village." Dodge
+and Edgar were old friends and fellow prisoners at Detroit. They were
+both arrested and confined in that place as being too friendly towards
+the American cause. Edgar was one of the witnesses relied upon to prove
+that Dodge was entitled to the land grant for which he had made
+application as a Canadian refugee.
+
+James Wood[14] of Frederick County, Va., who is mentioned in the
+Narrative, was appointed to command an expedition against the Shawanese,
+and armed his company at his own expense. He was also deputed, by the
+House of Burgesses, in 1775, to go among the several tribes of Western
+Indians and invite them to a treaty at Fort Pitt. He set out on his
+errand June 25, 1775, and was gone two months. He "underwent the
+greatest fatigues, difficulties and dangers." He was ordered paid L250
+for "the great service he hath done to this colony, by his diligent and
+faithful execution of the commission with which he was intrusted."
+
+The meeting of the Indians, which is referred to in the Narrative, took
+place at Fort Pitt in October, 1775. One of the Indian chiefs who was
+present on the occasion, was Shegenaba, the son of the famous Pontiac.
+His father had recently been killed in a war between the Indians, and he
+refers to this event in his speech, a part of which is as follows:
+
+  Fathers: From the information I have had of the commandant of
+  Detroit, with distrust I accepted your invitation, and measured my
+  way to the council fire with trembling feet. Your reception of me
+  convinces me of his falsehood, and the groundlessness of my fears.
+  Truth and he has long been enemies. My father, and many of my
+  chiefs, have lately tasted death. The remembrance of that misfortune
+  almost unmans me, and fills my eyes with tears.
+
+The following is another letter by Dodge:
+
+                                             Fort Pitt Decr 13th 1781.
+
+  Sir
+
+  I think it my indispencible duty to Lay before your Excellency a
+  State of the Western Islianoy Country which may Probably throw Some
+  light on the Various Reports which may have Reached you through
+  Channels not so well acquainted with it as I am--Since Col George
+  Rogers Clark took Possion of that Country by order of the State of
+  Virginia the inhabitants have been obliged to furnish The means of
+  Subsistance for a number of troops stationed Thare--Received bills
+  for payment but the Greatest part of them protested and Still
+  Remains unpaid which have Not only impoverished the Country to a
+  Great Degree but Numbers have Joynd the Spanish Settlements on the
+  Same Account and indeed the Greatest part are determined to Follow
+  them if their Grievances are Not Remedied in Consequence the
+  enormous Expence the State of Virginia has Been at in that quarter
+  will be but of little advantage To the united States if the
+  inhabitants all leave that Country and Join the Spanish Settlements
+  who are Making use of Every means and giving Every incouragement In
+  their power Even to our allied Savages but as Yet their efforts has
+  proved inafectual with them But as Poverty is always loyable to
+  temptation I fear their Warmest attachment to us Will be Seduced by
+  those Who have it in their power to Supply them the inhabitants are
+  too inconsiderable to Guard themselves from the Hostilities of our
+  Enemies and have often Solicited me to Represent their Situation to
+  Congress before the State of Virginia Gave up their Claim to that
+  Country--the the Chief of the indian Nations Sent a Speech to
+  Congress Representing the State of his Nation and if Nothing Cold
+  be done in Regard of Suplying them Beged an answer Which to my
+  knoledge was lodged with the board of War and Never no answer
+  Received--Should Congress think proper to Send troops to protect and
+  keep that Country under Subjection the Only Way in my Humble opinion
+  to Furnish them Would be to send Some Confidential person with a
+  proper Supply of Merchandize which would in incourage the Settlement
+  of the Country Cultivate the Savage interest Supply the troops with
+  Every Necessary the Return would also answer for Exportation and
+  Finally open a Very Profitable and Extensive trade in a little
+  time--But these hints I beg leave to Refer to your Excellencies own
+  better Judgment Consious that if they are worth your Notice Will
+  direct them into their Proper uses--I propose to Leave this Soon for
+  that quarter and Shall be Very happy in Rendering any Service in my
+  Power which may be advantageous to the United States that Your
+  Excellency may think Proper to intrust to my mannagement--Pleasd to
+  Excuse the freedom of my remarks Which you Will do me the Honour to
+  Corruct
+
+                             I have the honour to be with the Greatest
+  Respect
+
+                             Your Excellencies
+                                 Most Obd and Very
+                                     Humbe Servt--
+                                        Jno. Dodge
+  To
+    His Excellency
+      President of Congress
+  (Dec. 13, 1782)
+
+                (_Indorsement_)
+            Letter 13 Decr. 1781
+                John Dodge
+            Read Feby. 27, 1782
+          Referred to Mr. Wolcot
+                      Mr. Clark
+                      Mr. Patridge
+            The Comd discharged
+  (_Address_)
+      His Excellency
+          President of Congress
+              Philadelphia
+
+The Committee to whom was referred the Letter of John Dodge report
+
+That they have made the fullest enquiry that the circumstances of the
+case would admit, relative to the Facts mentioned in said Letter, But
+have not been able to obtain any Evidence to support them--and are
+therefore of opinion that the Committee ought to be discharged.
+
+    March 20, 1782.
+
+  In council June 16, 1779.
+
+  The board proceeded to the consideration of the letters of colonel
+  Clarke, and other papers relating to Henry Hamilton Esqr., who has
+  acted for some years past as Lieutenant Governour of the settlement
+  at and about Detroit, and Commandant of the British garrison there,
+  under Sir Guy Carleton as Governour in Chief; Philip Dejean Justice
+  of the Peace for Detroit and William Lamothe, Captain of volunteers,
+  prisoners of war, taken in the county of Illinois.
+
+  They find that Governour Hamilton has executed the task of inciting
+  the Indians to perpetrate their accustomed cruelties on the citizens
+  of these States, without distinction of age, sex, or condition, with
+  an eagerness and activity which evince that the general nature of
+  his charge harmonized with his particular disposition; they should
+  have been satisfied from the other testimony adduced that these
+  enormities were committed by savages acting under his commission,
+  but the number of proclamations which, at different times were left
+  in houses, the inhabitants of which were killed or carried away by
+  the Indians, one of which proclamations, under the hand and seal of
+  Governour Hamilton, is in possession of the Board, puts this fact
+  beyond doubt. At the time of his captivity it appears, that he had
+  sent considerable detachments of Indians against the frontier
+  settlements of these states, and had actually appointed a great
+  council of Indians to meet him at the mouth of the Tanissee, to
+  concert the operations of this present campaign. They find that his
+  treatment of our citizens and soldiers, captivated and carried
+  within the limits of his command, has been cruel and inhumane; that
+  in the case of John Dodge, a citizen of these states, which has been
+  particularly stated to this Board, he loaded him with irons, threw
+  him into a dungeon, without bedding, without straw, without fire, in
+  the dead of winter and severe climate of Detroit; that in that state
+  he harrassed and wasted him, with incessant expectations of death;
+  that when the rigours of his situation had brought him so low that
+  death seemed likely to withdraw him from their power, he was taken
+  out and attended to somewhat mended, and then again, before he had
+  recovered abilities to walk, was returned to his dungeon, in which a
+  hole was cut seven inches square only, for the admission of air, and
+  the same load of irons again put on him; that appearing again to be
+  in imminent danger of being lost to them, he was a second time taken
+  from his dungeon, in which he had lain from January to June, with
+  the intermission before mentioned of a few weeks only; That
+  Governour Hamilton gave standing rewards for scalps, but offered
+  none for prisoners, which induced the Indians, after making their
+  captives carry their baggage into the neighborhood of the fort,
+  there to put them to death, and carry in their scalps to the
+  Governour, who welcomed their return and success by a discharge of
+  cannon; that when a prisoner brought [a]live, and destined to death
+  by the Indians, the fire already kindled, and himself bound to the
+  stake, was dexterously withdrawn and secreted from them by the
+  humanity of a fellow prisoner; a large reward was offered for the
+  discovery of the victim, which having tempted a servant to betray
+  his concealment, the present prisoner Dejean being sent with a party
+  of soldiers, surrounded the house, took and threw into jail the
+  unhappy victim, and his deliverer, where the former soon expired
+  under the perpetual assurances of Dejean, that he was to be again
+  restored into the hands of the savages, and the latter when enlarged
+  was bitterly and illiberally reprimanded and threatened by Governour
+  Hamilton.
+
+  It appears to them that the prisoner Dejean, was on all occasions
+  the willing and cordial instrument of Governour Hamilton, acting
+  both as judge and keeper of the jail, and instigating and urging him
+  by malicious insinuations and untruths, to increase rather than
+  relax his severities, heightening the cruelty of his orders by the
+  manner of executing them; offering at one time a reward to one
+  prisoner to be the hangman of another, threatening his life on
+  refusal, and taking from his prisoners the little property their
+  opportunities enabled them to acquire.
+
+  It appears that the prisoner, Lamothe, was a Captain of the
+  volunteer scalping parties of Indians and whites wh[o] went out from
+  time to time, under general orders to spare neither men, women, nor
+  children.
+
+  From this detail of circumstances which arose in a few cases only,
+  coming accidentally to the knowledge of the Board they think
+  themselves authorized to presume by fair deduction what would be the
+  horrid history of the sufferings of the many who have expired under
+  their miseries (which therefore will remain forever untold) or who
+  having escaped from them, are yet too remote and too much dispersed
+  to bring together their well grounded accusations against these
+  prisoners.
+
+  They have seen that the conduct of the British officers, civil and
+  military, has in its general tenor, through the whole course of this
+  war, been savage & unprecedented among civilized nations; that our
+  officers and soldiers taken by them have been loaded with irons,
+  consigned to loathesome and crouded jails, dungeons, and prison
+  ships; supplied often with no food, generally with too little for
+  the sustenance of nature, and that little sometimes unsound and
+  unwholsome, whereby so many of them have perished that captivity and
+  miserable death have with them been almost synonimous; that they
+  have been transported beyond seas where their fate is out of the
+  reach of our enquiry, have been compelled to take arms against their
+  country, and by a new refinement in cruelty to become the murtherers
+  of their own brethren.
+
+  Their prisoners with us have, on the other hand, been treated with
+  moderation and humanity; they have been fed on all occasions with
+  wholesome and plentiful food, lodged comfortably, suffered to go at
+  large within extensive tracts of country, treated with liberal
+  hospitality, permitted to live in the families of our citizens, to
+  labour for themselves, to acquire and to enjoy property, and finally
+  to participate of the principal benefits of society while privileged
+  from all its burthens.
+
+  Reviewing this contrast which cannot be denied by our enemies
+  themselves in a single point, which has now been kept up during four
+  years of unremitted war, a term long enough to produce well founded
+  despair that our moderation may ever lead them into a practice of
+  humanity, called on by that justice which we owe to those who are
+  fighting the battles of their country, to deal out at length
+  miseries to their enemies, measure for measure, and to distress the
+  feelings of mankind by exhibiting to them spectacles of severe
+  retaliation, where we had long and vainly endeavoured to introduce
+  an emulation in kindness; happily possessed by the fortune of war
+  some of those very individuals, who having distinguished themselves
+  personally in this line of cruel conduct, are fit subjects to begin
+  on with the work of retaliation, this Board has resolved to advise
+  the Governour that the said Henry Hamilton, Philip Dejean, and
+  William Lamothe, prisoners of war, be put into irons, confined in
+  the dungeon of the publick jail, debarred the use of pen, ink, and
+  paper, and excluded all converse except with their keeper. And the
+  Governour orders accordingly.
+
+      Attest                          Archibald Blair C. C. (_A copy_)
+
+
+
+
+                              MR. DODGE'S
+                               NARRATIVE
+                      Of his SUFFERINGS among the
+                                BRITISH
+                              AT  DETROIT.
+
+                             [Illustration]
+
+
+                             [Illustration]
+
+
+
+
+                            AN ENTERTAINING
+                               NARRATIVE
+
+               Of the cruel and barbarous Treatment and
+                         extreme SUFFERINGS of
+
+                            MR. JOHN DODGE
+                              DURING  HIS
+                               CAPTIVITY
+                       OF MANY MONTHS AMONG THE
+                                BRITISH.
+                               AT DETROIT.
+
+                      IN WHICH IS ALSO CONTAINED,
+
+               A particular Detail of the SUFFERINGS of
+                 a Virginian, who died in their Hands.
+
+    Written by Himself: and now published to satisfy the Curiosity
+              of every one throughout the UNITED STATES.
+
+                          THE SECOND EDITION.
+
+               DANVERS, near SALEM: Printed and Sold by
+             E. RUSSELL. next the Bell-Tavern. M,DCC LXXX.
+          At the same Place may be had a Number of new Books,
+        &c. some of which are on the Times--Cash paid for Rags
+
+
+
+
+  It is worthy of remark, that the three persons who make a principal
+  _inglorious_ figure in the following NARRATIVE, viz. Governor
+  _Hamilton_, _De Jeane_ and _Le Mote_, were afterwards taken by the
+  brave Colonel CLARKE, of Virginia, at Fort St. Vincent, and are now
+  confined in irons in a goal in Virginia (by order of the Legislature
+  of that State) as a _retaliation_ for their former _inhuman_
+  treatment of prisoners, who fell into their hands, particularly Mr.
+  DODGE, who has the pleasing consolation of viewing his _savage
+  adversaries_ in a similar predicament with himself when in their
+  power----though it is not in the breast of generous AMERICANS to
+  treat them with equal barbarity.
+
+
+
+
+                                   A
+                              NARRATIVE, &
+
+
+I sometime since left the place of my nativity in Connecticut, and, in
+the year 1770, settled in Sandusky, an Indian village, about half way
+between Pittsburgh and Detroit, where I carried on a very beneficial
+trade with the natives, until the unhappy dispute between Great-Britain
+and America reached those pathless wilds, and roused to war Savages no
+ways interested in it.
+
+In July, 1775, Capt. James Woods called at my house in his way to the
+different indian towns, where he was going to invite them, in the name
+of the Congress, to a treaty to be held at Fort-Pitt. the ensuing fall;
+I attended him to their villages, and the Savages promised him they
+would be there. Capt. Woods also invited me to go with the Indians to
+the treaty, as they were in want of an interpreter, which I readily
+agreed to.
+
+Soon after the departure of Capt. Woods, the Commander of Fort-Detroit
+sent for the Savages in and about Sandusky, and told them that he heard
+they were invited by the Americans to a treaty at Pittsburgh, which they
+told him was true; on which he delivered them a talk to the following
+purport: "That he was their father, and as such he would advise them as
+his own children; that the Colonists who were to meet them at Pittsburgh
+were a bad people; that by the indulgence of their Protector, they had
+grown a numerous and saucy people; that the great King not thinking they
+would have the assurance to oppose his just laws, had kept but few
+troops in America for some years past; that those men being ignorant of
+their incapacity to go through with what they intend, propose to cut off
+the few regulars in this country, and then you Indians, and have all
+America to themselves; and all they want is, under the shew of
+friendship, to get you into their hands as hostages, and there hold you,
+until your nations shall comply with their terms, which if they refuse,
+you will be all massacred. Therefore do not go by any means; but if you
+will join me, and keep them at bay a little while, the King, our father,
+will send large fleets and Armies to our assistance, and we will soon
+subdue them, and have their plantations to ourselves."
+
+This talk so dismayed the Indians, that they came to me and said they
+would not go to the treaty, at the same time telling me what the
+Governor of Detroit had said to them. On this Mr. James Heron and myself
+having the cause of our country at heart, asserted that what the
+Governor had said was false and told them that the Colonists would not
+hurt a hair of their heads, and if they would go to the treaty, that I,
+with Mr. Heron, would be security, and pledge our property, to the
+amount of four thousand pounds, for their safe return. This, with the
+arrival of Mr. Butler with fresh invitations, induced some of them to go
+with me to the treaty.
+
+In the fall I attended a number of them to the treaty, where we were
+politely received by the Commissioners sent by Congress. The council
+commenced; the Indians, who are always fond of fishing in troubled
+water, offered their assistance, which was refused, with a request that
+they would remain in peace, and not take up the hatchet on either side.
+On the whole, these Indians were well pleased with the talk from the
+Congress, and promised to remain quiet.
+
+The Commissioners thinking it proper, sont the Continental belt and talk
+by some of the Chiefs to the Savages who resided about the lakes. These
+Chiefs being obliged to pass Sandusky, in their rout, Mr. John Gibson,
+Agent for Indian affairs requested me to accompany them, and furnish
+them with what they stood in need of; on which I took them home.
+
+On my arrival at the village I found the Savages in confusion, and
+preparing to war, on which I called a Council and rehearsed the
+Continental talk, which with a present of goods to the amount of twenty
+five pounds, quieted them. This I informed Congress of, agreable to
+their request, by express, and that the Governor of Detroit was still
+urging the Indians to war. Soon after this, a party of Savages from the
+neighborhood of the lakes, came to my house on their way to the frontier
+to strike a blow: I asked them the reason they took up the hatchet? They
+replied, that the Governor of Detroit had told them, that the Americans
+were going to murder them all and take their lands but if they would
+join him, they would be able to drive them off, and that he would give
+them twenty dollars a scalp. On this I rehearsed the Continental talk,
+and making them a small present they returned home, believing as I had
+told them, that the Governor was a liar and meant to deceive them.
+
+On this I thought proper to write the Governor of Detroit, what he was
+to expect should he continue to persuade the Indians to take up the
+Hatchet. He was so enraged at the receipt of this letter, that he
+offered one hundred pounds for my scalp or body, he sent out several
+parties to take me without effect, until having spread an evil report of
+me among the indians, on the fifteenth of January, 1776, my house was
+surrounded by about twenty soldiers and savages, who broke into the
+house, made me a prisoner, and then marched me for Detroit.
+
+It was about the dusk of the evening, when, after a fatiguing march, I
+arrived at Detroit, and was carried before Henry Hamilton, late a
+Captain in the fifteenth regiment, but now Governor and Commandant of
+Detroit; he ordered me to close confinement, telling me to spend that
+night in making my peace with GOD, as it was the last night I should
+live; I was then hurried to a loathsome dungeon, ironed and thrown in
+with three criminals, being allowed neither bedding, straw or fire,
+although it was in the depth of winter, and so exceeding cold, that my
+toes were froze before morning.
+
+About ten o'clock the next morning, I was taken out and carried before
+the Governor, who produced a number of letters with my name signed to
+them, and asked me if they were my hand writing? To which I replied they
+were not. He then said, it was a matter of indifference to him whether
+I owned it or not, as he understood that I had been carrying on a
+correspondence with Congress, taking the Savages to their treaties, and
+preventing their taking up the hatchet in favor of his Majesty, to
+defend his crown and dignity that I was a rebel and traitor, and he
+would hang me. I asked him whether he intended to try me by the civil or
+military law, or give me any trial at all? To which be replied, that he
+was not obliged to give any damn'd rebel a trial unless he thought
+proper, and that he would hang every one he caught, and that he would
+begin with me first. I told him if he took my life, to beware of the
+consequence, as he might depend on it that it would be looked into.
+What, says he, do you threaten me you damn'd rebel? I will soon alter
+your tone; here take the damn'd rebel to the dungeon again, and let him
+pray to God to have mercy on his soul, for I will soon fix his body
+between heaven and earth and every scoundrel like him.
+
+I was then redelivered to the hands of Philip De Jeane, who acted in
+the capacity of judge, sheriff and jailor, and carried back to my
+dungeon, where I was soon waited on by the Missionary to read prayers
+with me; but it was so extremely cold, he could not stand it but a few
+minutes at a time. In conversation with him, I told him I thought it
+was very hard to lose my life without a trial, and as I was innocent
+of the charge alledged against me. He said it was very true, but that
+the Governor had charged him not to give me the least hopes of life,
+as he would absolutely hang me.
+
+I remained in this dismal situation three days, when De Jeane came
+and took out one of the criminals who was in the dungeon with me, and
+held a short conference with him, then came and told me, the Governor
+had sent him to tell me to prepare for another world, as I had not
+long to live, and then withdrew. I enquired of the criminal, who was a
+Frenchman, what De Jeane wanted with him? But he would not tell me.
+
+The evening following he told his brother in distress, that De Jeane had
+offered him twenty pounds to hang Mr. Dodge (meaning me) but that he had
+refused unless he had his liberty; De Jeane then said, that we should
+both be shot under the gallows.
+
+Being at last drove almost to despair, I told De Jeane to inform the
+Governor I was readier to die at that time than I should ever be, and
+that I would much rather undergo his sentence, than be tortured in the
+dreadful manner I then was. He returned for answer, that I need not
+hurry them, but prepare myself, as I should not know my time until half
+an hour before I was turned off.
+
+Thus did I languish on in my dungeon, without a friend being allowed to
+visit me, denied the necessaries of life, and must have perished with
+the cold it being in the depth of winter, had not my fellow-prisoners
+spared me a blanket from their scanty stock. Thus denied the least
+comfort in life together with the unjust and savage threatning I
+received every day, brought me so very low, that my inability to answer
+De Jeane's unreasonable questions, with which he daily tormented me
+respecting innocent men, obliged him to notice my situation, and no
+doubt thinking I should die in their hands, they thought proper to
+remove me to the barracks, and ordered a Doctor to attend me. The
+weather had been so extreme cold, and my legs had been bolted in such a
+manner, that they were so benumbed, and the sinews contracted, that I
+had not the least use of them; and the severity of my usage had brought
+on a fever, which had nigh saved them any further trouble.
+
+After I had lain some time ill, and my recovery was despaired of, De
+Jeane called and told me that the Governor had altered his mind with
+respect to executing me, and bid me be of good cheer, as he believed
+the Governor would give me my liberty when I got better; I replied it
+was a matter of indifference to me whether he gave me my liberty or
+not, as I had much rather die than remain at their mercy: On which he
+said, "You may die and be damn'd," and bounced out of the room.
+
+When I had so far recovered as to be able to set up in my bed, my
+nurse being afraid I should inform her husband of her tricks in his
+absence, told the Governor that I was a going to make my escape with a
+party of soldiers, that I was well and could walk as well as she
+could, though at that time my legs were still so cramped and benumbed
+with the irons and cold, that had kingdoms been at stake I could not
+walk.
+
+On this information, De Jeane came and told me to get up and walk to
+the dungeon from whence I came. I told him I was unable: "Crawl then
+you damn'd rebel, or I will make you." I told him he might do as he
+pleased, but I could not stand, much more walk: On this he called a
+party of soldiers, who tossed me into a cart and carried me to the
+dungeon: Here, by the persuasion of the Doctor, who was very kind and
+attentive, I was allowed a bed and not ironed. By his care and the
+weather growing milder, I got rid of my fever and began to walk about
+my dungeon, which was only eight feet square; but even this was a
+pleasure too great for me to enjoy long, for in a few days I was put
+into irons. The weather now growing warm and the place offensive,
+from the filth of the poor fellows I had left there, and who were
+afterwards executed, I relapsed. By persuasion of the Doctor who told
+them unless I had air I should die, a hole about seven inches square
+was cut to let in some air.
+
+I remained ill until June, although the
+Doctor had done all that lay in his power;
+he then let the Governor know, that it
+was impossible for me to recover unless I
+was removed from the dungeon, on which
+he sent De Jeane to inform me, if I would
+give security for my good behavior, that
+he would let me out of prison. Being by
+my usage and fever, reduced to a state of
+despondence, I told him that it was a matter
+of indifference what he did with me, and
+that his absence was better than his company:
+He then published it abroad, and several
+Gentlemen voluntarily entered into two
+thousand pounds security for me, and I once
+more was allowed to breath the fresh air, after
+six months confinement in a loathsome
+dungeon, except eight or nine weeks that I
+lay sick at the barracks.
+
+On my going abroad, I learned that all the property I left in the woods,
+to the amount of fifteen or sixteen hundred pounds, was taken in the
+King's name and divided among the Indians. As I had but little to attend
+to but the recovery of my health, I mended apace. As soon as I could
+walk abroad, Governor Hamilton sent for me and said, he was sorry for my
+misfortunes, and hoped I would think as little as possible of them; that
+I was in a low state, he thought I had best not think of business, or
+think of what I had left, as he would lend me a hand to recover my
+losses. This smooth discourse gave me but little satisfaction for the
+ill usage I had received at his hands; however, I was determined to rest
+as easy as I could, until I had an opportunity of obtaining redress.
+
+As soon as I found myself so far recovered as to be able to do business,
+which was in September, I applied to the Governor to go down the
+country, but he put me off with fine words, a permission to do business
+there, and a promise of his assistance. I now settled my accounts with
+the persons with whom I was connected in trade, and found myself seven
+hundred pounds in debt. My credit being pretty good, I set up a retail
+store, and as many of the inhabitants pitied my case, they all seeming
+willing to spend their money with me. My being master of the different
+Indian languages about Detroit, was also of service to me, so that in a
+short time I paid off all my debts, and began to add to my stock.
+
+In the spring of 1777 I heard there was like to be a good trade at
+Machilimakanac, on which I applied to the Governor, and with a great
+deal of trouble got a pass, went and met with good trade. On my return
+Governor Hamilton by several low arts attempted to pick my cargo, which
+as it would spoil the sale of the remainder, I could not allow. As he
+had no pretence for taking them from me by force, it once more provoked
+him to wrath against me; he greatly retarded my sales by denying me a
+permit to draw my powder out of the magazine; also ordered myself and
+two servants to be ready at a moment's warning to march under Capt. Le
+Mote on a scouting party with Savages: I told him it was against my
+inclination to take up arms against my own flesh and blood, and much
+more so to go with Savages to butcher and scalp defenceless women and
+children, that were not interested in the present dispute: He said it
+was not any of my business whether they were interested in the dispute
+or not; and added if you are not ready when called for, I will fix you.
+Lucky for me he was soon after called down the country, and succeded by
+Capt. Mountpresent as Commander, who ordered Le Mote to strike my name
+out of his books: but my servants with their pay, I lost entirely.
+
+The party of Savages under Le Mote went out with orders not to spare
+man, woman or child. To this cruel mandate even some of the Savages made
+an objection, respecting the butchering women and children, but they
+were told the children would make soldiers, and the women would keep up
+the stock.--Those sons of Britain offered no reward for prisoners, but
+they gave the Indians twenty dollars a scalp, by which means they
+induced the Savages to make the poor inhabitants, who they had torn from
+their peaceable homes, carry their baggage until within a short distance
+of the fort, where in cold blood, they murdered them, and delivered
+their green scalps in a few hours after to those British Barbarians, who
+on the first yell of the Savages, flew to meet and hug them to their
+breasts reeking with the blood of innocence, and shewed them every mark
+of joy and approbation, by firing of cannon &c.
+
+One of these parties returning with a number of woman and children's
+scalps, and three prisoners, they were met by the Commander of the
+fort, and after usual demonstrations of joy delivered their scalps, for
+which they were paid; the Indians then made the Commandant a present of
+two of the prisoners, reserving the third as a sacrifice to the manes of
+one of them that had fell in the expedition. Being shocked at the idea
+of one of my fellow-creatures being tortured and burnt alive by those
+inhuman Savages, I sought out the Indian who had lost his relative, and
+to whom, according to the Indian custom, this unhappy man belonged; I
+found him, took him home with me, and by the assistance of some of my
+friends and twentyfive pounds worth of goods, I persuaded the inhuman
+wretch to sell his life to me. As the rest of the gang had taken the
+prisoner about two leagues distance, and were making merry over him, we
+were obliged to lay a scheme to deliver him from their hands, which we
+did in the following manner, it being midnight and very dark the Indian,
+myself and two servants crossed the river in a batteaux to where they
+were carousing around this unhappy victim. The Indian then went to his
+companion, and under a pretence of taking the prisoner out to answer a
+call of nature, delivered him to me, who lay at some distance, and I
+carried him to the batteaux. As soon as he found himself in the hands of
+his deliverer, his transport was too great for his tender frame; three
+different times he sunk lifeless in my arms, and as often by the help
+of water, the only remedy at hand, I prevented his going to the land of
+spirits in a transport of joy. None but those who have experienced it,
+can have an idea of the thoughts that must have agitated the breast of a
+man, who but a few minutes before saw himself surronnded by Savages,
+whose dismal yell, and frightful figures, heightened by the glare of a
+large fire in a dismal wood, which must have harrowed up the soul of an
+uninterested bystander, much more one who knew that very fire was
+prepared for his execution, and that every moment the executioner was
+expected to arrive.--The executioner arrives; he advances towards him;
+he losens this unhappy victim from the tree to which he was bound, no
+doubt as this young man imagined to be led to the stake; but as it were
+in an instant, he finds himself in the hands of his deliverer and
+fellow-countryman. This, as I said before was too much for him to bear;
+however I got his almost lifeless corpse to my house, where I kept him
+hid. The Indian, according to our agrement in an hour or two after I was
+gone, returned seemingly much fatigued, and told his fellow Savages who
+were impatiently waiting to begin their brutal sacrifice, that the
+prisoner had escaped, and that he had in vain pursued him. Some time
+after this I found an opportunity and made an agrement with the Captain
+of a vessel going to Michilimakanac, to take my unhappy inmate with him,
+but one of my servants being tempted, by a large reward that was offered
+for retaking the above prisoner, informed De Jeane, that he was hid in
+my house, on which my habitation was soon surrounded by a party of
+soldiers under the command of said De Jeane, and myself, the young man
+and four servants were made prisoners, and having demanded my keys,
+which I delivered, we were hurried to goal and confined in different
+rooms. Here this unhappy young fellow, in high expectations of seeing
+his friends, was once more plunged into the horrors of imprisonment.
+
+  [Illustration: REPRESENTATION of the Indian Manner
+                   of burning an English Prisoner.]
+
+I was sent for and carried before the Commandant, where, on being
+examined who was the person in my house, I frankly told him it was a
+young man whom I had bought of the Indians when they were going to burn
+him, and that I meant to send him to Canada to be out of the way of the
+Savages, but De Jeane, like other men of bad principles, thinking no man
+could do a good action without sinister views, said that he believed I
+had purchased him to serve my own ends, and that he would find them out,
+which the Commandant ordered him to do as soon as possible, and I was
+ordered to prison.
+
+De Jeane then took my servant, who was his informant, ironed him, put
+him in the dungeon, and after keeping him three days on bread and water,
+the lad almost frightened out of his senses, sent for De Jeane, and told
+him that the day before I was taken up I had wrote several letters, and
+on his bringing a candle to seal them, that I said, if he told any one
+that I was writing to Pitsburg, that I would blow his brains out. This
+suiting De Jeane's purpose, he made the lad swear to it, and then set
+him with the rest of my servants at liberty.
+
+I was now once more called before the Commandant, who told me he
+understood I was going to send an express to his Majesty's enemies, in
+consequence of which he had taken an inventory of my effects, and meant
+to send me to Canada. I told him he was misinformed: He then taxes me
+with what De Jeane had forced from my servant; asked me where I was
+writing the day before I was taken? I told him to my correspondents in
+Montreal; and luckily for me a neighbor of mine, having been at my
+house, was produced, who declared the truth of what I said, and that I
+being hurried, had given him the letters to carry on board the vessel.
+This with some other false accusations being cleared up, I was once more
+released on giving fresh security.
+
+Though myself and servants were, for want of a pretence for detaining
+us, set at liberty, it was not so with the unfortunate young man whom
+I had purchased from the Indian; he still remained in prison, daily
+tormented with the threats of De Jeane, that he would deliver him to the
+Indians, which so preyed on his spirits, that in a short time it threw
+him into a fever. I then applied to Capt Montpresent, the Commandant,
+who gave me permission, and I removed him to sick quarters, where
+I hired Jacob Pue, of Virginia, his fellow prisoner, to attend him. I
+also, when leisure would permit, attended him myself; but De Jeane, who
+still haunted him, had so great an effect on him, that one day when I
+visited him, he called me to his bedside and said to me, that De Jeane
+had just left him, that he told him to make haste and get well, as the
+Indians were waiting for him. Pray Sir, (said the young man to De Jeane)
+for GOD's sake try to keep me from the Indians, for if they get me they
+will burn me. Keep you from them, said De Jeane, you damn'd rebel you
+deserve to be burned, and all your damn'd countrymen with you, for you
+need not think Dodge can save you; General Hamilton is now come up, and
+he will fix you all. I tried to comfort him, and told him to be of good
+courage: Oh! replied he. I am almost distracted with the idea of being
+burnt by the Savages; I had much rather die where I am, than be
+delivered into the hands of those horrid wretches, from whom I so lately
+by your hands escaped, the recollection of which, makes me shudder with
+horror. He could say no more; he sunk under it, and in a few hours
+after, death, more kind than his cruel tormentors, released him from his
+troubles. I paid the last tribute to this my unhappy Countryman, and had
+his corpse decently interred, attended by the Missionary and most of the
+principal Merchants of the town.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+As Hamilton was arrived, I had every thing to expect that his malice
+could invent, more especially as De Jeane, to whom his ear was always
+open, had told him (as I was informed) all and more than what had
+happened during his absence. About a month after the death of the
+unhappy young man above related, I had occasion for some of my powder
+out of the magazine: I wrote an order to the conductor, according to
+custom and waited on the Governor to have it signed; on presenting it to
+him, he looked at it, and then looked at me with a sarcastic smile said,
+It is powder you want, you damn'd rascal is it? At the same time
+tearing my order and throwing it in my face: You have behaved yourself
+very well, have you not? After my granting you your life, you would not
+go with Le Mote, would you not? says, he and starting up in a great
+passion as though he would strike me, put himself between me and the
+door. What, says he, you have a damn'd deal of influence with the
+Indians; you can purchase prisonners without my approbation can you? you
+damn'd rascal. Sir, said I, I am no rascal; not a word out of your
+mouth, says Hamilton, go about your business and take care of me or I
+will fix you: I replied it had always been my study to take care of him;
+not a word, says he, go about your business, and bless your stars I was
+not here instead of Capt. Montpresent, for I would have fixed you, you
+damn'd scoundrel. Here I took my leave, went home and determined to
+think as little of Mr. Hamilton and his usage as possible, until I had
+an opportunity of getting redress.
+
+Notwithstanding the hatred of Hamilton and De Jeane; I spent the
+forepart of the winter very happily, until the 25th of Jan. 1778, when
+several Merchants of the town got permission to go to Sandusky to trade,
+and as they proposed encamping about two leagues from the town, myself
+and several others in a friendly manner, proposed and did accompany them
+in our sleighs to their first stage; but on our return, I being a head,
+was challenged by De Jeane, at the head of thirty or forty soldiers, by
+asking who came there? To which I replied, John Dodge; he then ordered
+the soldiers to seize me and the two gentlemen in the sleigh with me,
+and forced us to return to the encampment we had just left, where he
+seized the whole of the gentlemen who were going by permission to
+Sandusky, with their goods, sleighs, &c. and carried the whole of us the
+next morning back to the fort, and charged us with sending out goods to
+supply (as he politely termed it) the rebels.
+
+After being detained three days in prison I was taken to De Jeane's
+house to see my papers, books, desk, &c. examined. They broke open my
+desk pretending to have lost the key. On searching, they could not find
+any thing worth their notice, or what they expected to find. De Jeane
+then gave me my keys, and told me to send for my desk and take care of
+myself as he would watch me: I told him, as he had taken it from my home
+and broke it, he should mend it and send it home before I would receive
+it: Stop a little said he, I will speak to the Governor and fix you yet
+if I can; he then gave me into the case of the guard, and ordered me to
+goal. About the fifth day after this, not hearing any thing from him, I
+sent for my violin, and was diverting myself, when Governor Hamilton
+passed by, and inquired who was playing on the violin, to which the
+Corporal of the guard answer'd it was me. The next day De Jeane waited
+on me with a Blacksmith, who soon clapped on a pair of hand-bolts; and
+now, says De Jeane, I have fixed you, you may play the violin until you
+are tired; I asked him what I had done to be treated thus; for that you
+must apply to the Governor said he, for it is his pleasure that you are
+so: He then threatened to put on my leg bolts; on which I told him I did
+not value his irons, but if he kept me prisoner, I should look to him
+for my property, (about 3000l.) Yes, says he, we will fix you and your
+property too, and then left me. About six days after, I was taken to my
+own house, where two English and two Frenchmen, by order of the
+Governor, took an inventor of my goods, and soon after sold the whole at
+vendue, for about 1900l. New-York currency. Thus being a second time
+robbed of my property, I lay a prisoner as contented as possible,
+without any thing material happening until the first of May.
+
+On the first of May 1778, I was put on board a vessel to go down
+to Quebec, and by some of my friends furnished with provision and
+necessaries for the voyage; but of these I was robbed by De Jeane, and
+had it not been for some gentlemen, passengers in the same vessel, I
+must have suffered with hunger. On the first of June I arrived at
+Quebec, where I was conducted to Mr. Printices the Provost Marshal! Ha!
+ha! says he, Mr. Dodge, are you here? I have often been told you were a
+damn'd rascal doing all you could against government. It is a pity
+Governor Hamilton did not hang you when he was about it, as he would
+have saved government a great deal of trouble. From hence I was
+conducted on board the prison ship Mariah, with a number of Farmers,
+taken off their plantations by the Savages.
+
+Two days after I was put on board the prison ship, we were visited by
+Mr. Murray, Commissary of Prisoners, to whom I gave an account of my
+capture and ill usage; he told me, he would speak to the General, and
+give me an answer. Two days after, he came on board, and told me, as it
+was very difficult times, I could not have a hearing at present; I told
+him I wanted nothing but what the English constitution allowed, and if
+I could not get that in Quebec, I would apply to England; to which he
+replied I had better be easy, for if I did not, he would put me in irons
+again.
+
+I remained on board the prison ship until the begining of August, when
+Mr. Murray came on board, and informed me that I was not to go with the
+prisoners; but if I would give my parole, I should be allowed the
+liberty of Quebec. I asked him the occasion I could not be sent with the
+other prisoners; he replied it was the Governor's orders: I asked him if
+I was to be allowed any support; he said, not any. I told him it was
+very hard to be dragged from my house, robbed of my property, deprived
+of my liberty, sent 1200. miles in irons, and still be held a prisoner
+in the town of Quebec, without any allowance for support: All my
+applications were in vain, I was set on shore under parole the fourth of
+August, and the ship sailed with the other prisoners soon after.
+
+The cause of my detention, as I was afterwards told by Mr. Murray, was,
+that Governor Hamilton, of Detroit, had wrote the General not to send
+me round with the other prisoners; for if I got into the United States,
+he knew I would come immediately upon him, and as I knew the country,
+was well acquainted with the languages of the different Indians about
+the lakes, and had great influence among them, should be the means of
+their losing the fort, which would be much against the crown.
+
+On my enlargement, I soon got acquainted with a number of gentlemen, who
+were friends to the United States, and the cause in which they were
+engaged. Some days after going on shore, I fell in company with a Mr.
+Jones, who happened at that time to be reading a letter sent by General
+Montgomery, while he lay before Quebec, to Gov. Carlton, and on
+concluding it said he hoped General Montgomery was in hell, and that all
+the rebels would soon be with him; to this I made a reply, words ensued,
+and then blows; he drew on me, but I parried his thrust with my cane, so
+that I only got a small wound on my knee: He then made a complaint and I
+was sent for by the General, who threatened to put me in confinement, if
+I did not find security; this I soon found, and bonds were given for me
+for two months: at the end of which, as they neglected renewing them
+and left me without parole or security, I hired an Indian guide, and on
+the ninth of Oct I quitted Quebec. After a fatiguing march through the
+woods, on the 20th of Nov. I arrived at Boston, where I was kindly
+received and politely treated by General Gates who supplied my wants and
+forwarded to me to his Excellency, General Washington; I, waited on him,
+was politely received and sent on to Congress, having some matters
+relating to Canada, worthy of their hearing.
+
+Had the love of my country no ways prompted me to act against the
+tyranny of Britain. I leave it to the world to judge whether I have not
+a right to revolt from under the dominion of such tyrants and exert
+every faculty God has given me to seek satisfaction for the ill usage I
+received than if I had ten thousand lives, and was sure to lose them
+all: I think should I not attempt to gain satisfaction I should deserve
+to be a slave the remainder of my life.
+
+
+                                FINIS
+
+                            [Illustration]
+
+
+
+
+                                NOTES
+
+
+[1] Almon's _Remembrancer_, 1779.
+
+[2] First edition, Philadelphia, 1779, and second edition, Danvers,
+Massachusetts, 1780; also printed in _Connecticut Gazette and Universal
+Intelligencer_, February 2, 1780.
+
+[3] _Virginia State Papers_, 1, 321.
+
+[4] _Dodge Genealogy_, page 137. _American Ancestry_, 6, 192. The sketch
+in _The Magazine of Western History_, 4, 282, contains many errors.
+
+[5] _Wayne County Records_, B. 9, 91.
+
+[6] If this date is correct it would appear that Dodge was in Detroit
+before he was brought there as a captive.
+
+[7] Manuscript, British Museum.
+
+[8] For a history of the Montour family see Egle's _Notes and Queries_,
+3rd series, 1, 118. John Montour was arrested and confined in Detroit in
+1778. See _Michigan Historical Society Collections_, 9, 434.
+
+[9] _Michigan Historical Society Collections_, 9, 512.
+
+[10] _Fergus Historical Series_, number 31, page 62. See also number 33,
+pages 159, 182, 183, 209; also _Calendar of Virginia State Papers_, 1,
+367.
+
+[11] _American State Papers_, _Public Lands_, Volume 1, (Gales and
+Seaton), 106, 110. A letter from John Rice Jones on file in the Interior
+Department, dated January 18, 1800, states that Dodge and his wife were
+both dead.
+
+[12] Letter from Henry L. Caldwell to Louise M. Dalton, Missouri
+Historical Society, dated December 4, 1906. Mr. Caldwell died April 11,
+1907, a very old man. Miss Dalton was secretary of the Missouri
+Historical Society and died in June of the same year.
+
+[13] A little information is obtained from the Ste. Genevieve records,
+now in possession of the Missouri Historical Society, and a letter of
+John Rice Jones now on file in the Interior Department at Washington.
+The Jones letter is dated January 18, 1800, and in it he says that John
+Dodge was married somewhere in Virginia and that both Dodge and his wife
+are dead. From the other records it appears that the wife's name was
+Ann.
+
+[14] Wood was a Revolutionary soldier and officer of considerable
+importance, and was elected Governor of Virginia, serving from December
+1, 1796, till December 1, 1799. He died July 16, 1813. _American
+Archives_, 4th Series, Volume 4, 110-115. See also same series, Volume
+2, 1209, 1240. Wood's _Journal_ is in _The Revolution on the Upper
+Ohio_, page 34. _Old Westmoreland_, 18. _American Archives_, 4th Series,
+Volume 3, 1542.
+
+
+
+
+                                INDEX
+
+
+  Antanya, Michael, assists Dodge, 15.
+
+
+  Beaver Creek (Bever Criek), 9.
+
+  Blair, Archibald, 23.
+
+  Boston, visited by Dodge, 7, 15;
+    Dodge meets General Gage there, 56.
+
+  Boyle, Philip, letter to, 15.
+
+  Butler, Mr., aids Dodge in inducing Indians to make treaty, 31.
+
+  Caldwell, Henry L., grandson of Israel Dodge, 14.
+
+  Canada, Dodge proposes to invade, 8.
+
+  Carleton, Sir Guy, Governor in Chief of Michigan Territory, 19;
+    Mr. Jones reads letter from, 55.
+
+  Carlisle (Pennsylvania), Israel Dodge marries Ann Hunter at, 14.
+
+  Clark, Gen. George Rogers, of Virginia,
+    captures Lieut.-Gov. Hamilton, 13;
+    takes possession of the Western Illinois country, 17;
+    letters to Congress considered by board, 19.
+
+  Clark, Mr., Dodge's letter to Congress referred to, 19.
+
+  Congress, Dodge visits, 7, 56;
+    writes letter to, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13;
+    reports adversely to suggestions in letter, 13;
+    Dodge writes second letter to, 17, 18;
+    Committee of, report on the John Dodge report, 19;
+    Commissioners of, treat with Indians, 32;
+    Dodge informs, of council with Indians at Sandusky, 32.
+
+  Congressional Board, the,
+    reports on letters of Colonel Clark and others relating to Hamilton,
+          Dejean and Lamothe, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23;
+    recommends punishment to be inflicted upon these prisoners, 23.
+
+  Connecticut, birthplace of Dodge 15;
+    Dodge leaves, 29.
+
+  Continental talk, 32, 33.
+
+
+  Dejean, Philip, prisoner of war, 13;
+    Justice of the Peace for Detroit, 19;
+    prisoner of war, 19;
+    his cruel treatment of Dodge and other prisoners, 20, 21, 35, 36,
+          37, 38, 39, 47, 48;
+    captured by Colonel Clark of Virginia at Fort St. Vincent
+          (Vincennes), 28;
+    imprisons Dodge a second time, 45;
+    informs Hamilton concerning Dodge, 48;
+    seizes Dodge and companions near Sandusky, 51;
+    examines Dodge's papers, 51.
+
+  Detroit, John Dodge locates there, 6;
+    refers in letter to its garrison, 9;
+    Governor of, bribes savages, 9;
+    proposes to take by force, 10;
+    visits, 15.
+
+  Dodge, Henry, son of Israel Dodge, 14;
+    born October 12, 1872, 14;
+    first Governor of Wisconsin Territory, 14.
+
+  Dodge, Ann Hunter, wife of Israel Dodge, 14.
+
+  Dodge, Israel, brother of John Dodge, 6;
+    commissioned as lieutenant, 14.
+
+  Dodge, John, birth, 6;
+    parentage, 6;
+    early life as a trader, 6;
+    purchases land, 6;
+    confined in jail, 7;
+    appointed Indian Agent by Virginia, 14;
+    lays claim to western lands, 14;
+    patents issued to his heirs, 14;
+    date of death, 14;
+    place of burial, 14;
+    holds commission as colonel, 14;
+    places visited in his travels, 15;
+    writes second letter to Congress, 16, 17;
+    acts as interpreter for Captain Wood, 29;
+    makes present to Indians, 32, 33;
+    writes to Hamilton, 33;
+    taken prisoner by Indians at instigation of Hamilton, 33;
+    taken to Detroit, 33;
+    condemned to death, 34, 35;
+    his suffering and sickness in prison, 34, 35, 36, 37, 38;
+    released from prison, 39;
+    his property confiscated, 40;
+    engages in mercantile business, 41;
+    rescues prisoner, 43, 44;
+    taken captive by Dejean, 45;
+    called before Commandant Mountpresent, 46;
+    ordered to prison, 46;
+    released, 47;
+    threatened by Hamilton, 50;
+    goes to Sandusky, 51;
+    seized by Dejean, 51;
+    cast into goal, 52;
+    his property confiscated second time, 52;
+    brought before Mr. Printices, Provost Marshal at Quebec, 53;
+    put on board prison ship _Mariah_, 53;
+    visited by Mr. Murray, Commissary of Prisoners, 53;
+    paroled, 54;
+    encounter with Mr. Jones, 55;
+    forced to give bonds, 55;
+    leaves Quebec, 56;
+    arrives at Boston, 56;
+    sent by Gates to General Washington, 56;
+    appears before Congress, 56.
+
+  Dodge, John, Sr., father of John Dodge, 6.
+
+  Dodge, Lydia Rogers, wife of John Dodge, 6.
+
+  Dodge Narrative, time and place, 5;
+    importance, 5;
+    reprints, 5.
+
+
+  Edgar, John;
+    Dodge attempts to carry off slaves of, 15;
+    old friend of Dodge, 15;
+    arrested and confined at Detroit, 15, 16;
+    witness for Dodge, 16.
+
+
+  Fort Pitt, (Pittsburg), Dodge's visit to, 8;
+    conference with Indians at, 16;
+    speech of Shengenaba at, 16.
+
+
+  Gates, General, Dodge visits at Boston, 56.
+
+  Gibson, John, agent for Indian affairs, 32.
+
+
+  Hamilton, Lieut. Gov. Henry,
+    cruelties and irregularities of his rule in Detroit, 5;
+    indicted for murder, 5;
+    confined in irons, 6;
+    sends Dodge as prisoner to Quebec, 7;
+    bribes savages, 9;
+    captured by Gen. George Rogers Clark, 13;
+    released from prison and reinstated as lieutenant governor of
+          Canada, 14;
+    letters of Colonel Clark relating to, 19;
+    incites Indians to perpetrate cruelties, 20;
+    Committee's report as to his treatment of John Dodge, 20, 21;
+    gives standing reward for scalps, 21, 32;
+    capture by Colonel Clark at Fort St. Vincent (Vincennes), 28;
+    dissuades Indians from assembling at Fort Pitt, 30, 31;
+    Dodge writes letter to, 33;
+    throws Dodge into prison at Detroit, 34;
+    advises Dodge not to try to obtain redress, 40;
+    orders Dodge to march with scouting party of savages, 41;
+    threatens Dodge, 42, 50;
+    succeeded by Captain Mountpresent, 42;
+    returns to Detroit, 49;
+    orders Dodge detained at Quebec, 54, 55.
+
+  Harman papers, their reference to Dodge, 15.
+
+  Henry, Moses;
+    Henry Dodge, his namesake, 14;
+    his bravery at Vincennes, 14, 15.
+
+  Henry, Patrick, commissions Dodge as Colonel, 14.
+
+  Heron, James, aids Dodge in inducing Indians to make treaty, 31.
+
+
+  Illinois (Islianoy) Country, the,
+    Dodge refers to it in letter to Congress, 17, 18;
+    effect of its occupancy by troops under Col. Clark, 17, 18.
+
+  Indians, bribed by Hamilton, 9;
+    offered standing reward for scalps, 21;
+    invited by Capt. James Wood to a treaty at Fort Pitt, 16, 29;
+    dissuaded by Hamilton from assembling at Fort Pitt, 29, 30;
+    persuaded by argument of Dodge and Heron, 31;
+    make treaty with Commissioners of Congress, 32;
+    their cruelty to prisoners, 42, 43, 44.
+
+
+  Jones, John Rice, letter from, 15.
+
+  Jones, Mr., in company with Dodge, 55.
+
+
+  Kaskaskia, Dodge located there as Indian Agent, 14;
+    visits, 15;
+    writes letter from, 15.
+
+  Kichoga, 9.
+
+
+  Lafleur, Joseph Poupard, sells land to Dodge, 6.
+
+  Lamothe, William (Le Mote), prisoner of war, 13, 19;
+    Captain of Volunteers, 19;
+    captain of volunteer scalping party of Indians and whites, 20;
+    his capture by Col. Clark, of Virginia at Fort St. Vincent
+          (Vincennes), 28;
+    commands scouting Indians, 41, 42.
+
+
+  Mackinac, 7.
+
+  _Mariah_, prison ship, Dodge confined on, 53.
+
+  McIntosh, General, marches from Beaver Creek, 9;
+    Dodge censures in letter to Congress, 11.
+
+  Michilimackinac, Dodge trades at, 41;
+    arranges to send rescued prisoner there, 45.
+
+  Missouri Historical Society, references to Dodge, 15.
+
+  Montgomery, General, Dodge speaks in his defense, 55.
+
+  Montour, John, letter to from Dodge, 8.
+
+  Mountpresent, Capt., 42, 47, 50.
+
+  Morgan, Col., his arrival at Pittsburg, 12;
+    sends message to the Indian (Endian) Nations, 12.
+
+  Murray, Mr., Commissary of Prisoners, visits Dodge, 53;
+    informs Dodge that he is not to go with prisoners, 54.
+
+
+  New Orleans, 15.
+
+  New York, visited by Dodge, 15.
+
+
+  Ohio District, John Dodge in, 6.
+
+
+  Patridge, Mr., Dodge's letter to Congress referred to, 19.
+
+  Philadelphia, visited by Dodge, 15.
+
+  Piankeshaw Indians, 15.
+
+  Pittsburg (Fort Pitt), Dodge visits, 15.
+
+  Pontiac, his son Shegenaba speaks at Fort Pitt, 16, 17.
+
+  Presque Isle (Preskeele), 9.
+
+  Printice, Mr., Provost Marshal of Quebec, 53.
+
+  Pue, Jacob, of Virginia, hired to attend fellow prisoner, 47.
+
+
+  Quebec, John Dodge sent as prisoner to, 7, 53;
+    escapes, 7;
+    visited by Dodge, 15.
+
+
+  Sandusky (Ohio), Dodge locates there as a trader, 6, 29;
+    visits, 15;
+    disturbed by Revolutionary War, 29;
+    Savages hostile in, 32.
+
+  Shawnee Indians, 16.
+
+  Shegenaba, son of Pontiac, speech at Fort Pitt, 16, 17.
+
+  Ste Genevieve (Mo.), Dodge buried at, 14;
+    Dodge visits, 15.
+
+  Sugar Creek (Shugar Criek), 9.
+
+
+  Tanisee River, the,
+    Hamilton appoints council of Indians to meet at the mouth of, 20.
+
+  Tucker, William, has negotiations with John Dodge, 6.
+
+
+  Vincennes (Ind.), George Rogers Clark at, 13;
+    captured by Gov. Hamilton, 14;
+    visited by Dodge, 16;
+    Hamilton, Dejean, and Lamothe taken prisoners at, 28.
+
+  Virginia, Council of,
+    letters and narratives of Dodge read by members of, 13;
+    recommends the punishment of Henry Hamilton, Philip Dejean and
+          Wm. La Mothe, 13;
+    expenses in connection with the Illinois country, 17.
+
+
+  Washington, Gen. George, Dodge meets him, 7, 56.
+
+  Williamsburg  (Va.),  Hamilton taken to by Clark, 13.
+
+  Wolcot, Mr., Dodge's letter to Congress referred to, 19.
+
+  Wood, James, appointed to command expedition against the Shawnee, 16;
+    deputed to invite Western Indians to a treaty at Fort Pitt, 16, 29;
+    his fatigues, difficulties and dangers, 16;
+    his compensation, 16;
+    meeting with the Indians, 16;
+    calls at the house of Dodge, 29.
+
+
+
+
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