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6. Croghan’s itinerary: Howard H. Peckham, ed., George Croghan’s Journal of His Trip to Detroit in 1767 (Ann Arbor, Mich., 1939), 31–47. Effects of diplomacy: McConnell, A Country Between, 241–2, 264–5.
7. For quantities of rum in the Ohio Country and elsewhere in the west, and for the role of Baynton, Wharton and Morgan in the trade, see Peter C. Mancall, Deadly Medicine: Indians and Alcohol in Early America (Ithaca, N.Y., 1995), 52–7, 181–2; and Dunn, Frontier Profit, 178–9. (Mancall estimates the per capita consumption of alcohol among western Indians under the British regime at between approximately .5 and 1.1 gallons annually, or between 2.1 and 4.5 gallons annually for “active drinkers,” mainly young men; a notably higher rate of consumption than when the French were the principal traders in the region [211 n. 108]. Dunn makes the much higher per capita estimate of 12 gallons per annum “per warrior” [table 10.1, 178].) For Croghan’s and Gage’s anticipation of a new Indian war, see Wainwright, Croghan, 248.
8. Shy, Toward Lexington, 290: “the army, as an instrument of imperial control in time of peace, had a dull edge.”
EPILOGUE: MOUNT VERNON, JUNE 24, 1767
1. Harvest and weather: Donald Jackson and Dorothy Twohig, eds., The Diaries of George Washington, vol. 2, 1766–1770 (Charlottesville, Va., 1976), 21, 23 (entries of 19–24 June and 14 July 1767). Wheat farming and plantation enterprises: Douglas Southall Freeman, George Washington: A Biography, vol. 3, Planter and Patriot (New York, 1951), 179–80. Weaving: W. W. Abbot et al., eds., The Papers of George Washington, Colonial Series, vol. 7, January 1761– June 1767 (Charlottesville, Va., 1990), 508 n. 1. Speculative enterprises: ibid., 219–25, 268–75 et passim.
2. Washington to Capt. John Posey, 24 June 1767, in Papers of Washington, vol. 8, June 1767–December 1771 (Charlottesville, Va., 1993), 1–4.
3. Washington to Capt. William Crawford, 17 Sept. 1767, ibid., 28. Washington’s mention of Indians’ consent to white occupation beyond the Proclamation Line referred to the Six Nations’ agreement, at the end of Pontiac’s War, to cede lands west of the Alleghenies and south of the Ohio, as far as the Tennessee River. The Shawnees, Delawares, Mingos, Munsees, Miamis, and Wyandots who lived in the region, of course, were determined to resist white colonization.
4. Sartorial tastes: Washington to Charles Lawrence, 26 Apr. 1763, Papers of Washington, 7:201–2. “Nine of such influence”: minutes of the Mississippi Land Company, 9 Sept. 1763, ibid., 223 n. 2.
FRED ANDERSON
CRUCIBLE OF WAR
Fred Anderson is Associate Professor of History at the University of Colorado, Boulder. He is the author of A People’s Army: Massachusetts Soldiers and Society in the Seven Years’ War (1984), as well as articles, essays, and reviews,
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