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2:8 AMERICAN CATHOLIC HISTORICAL Socusrr.
(Ibid. N” 85.)
Loudoun to The Rt. I-Ion““’ Henry Fox ; Albany, 22“,
November 1756. This letter of 48 folio pages was begun at
Albany & ended at New York. On the last page, he says
that Sir Wm. Johnson “ insists upon having Mr. Croghan to
assist him, for whom he proposes a Sallary of Two hundred a
year. . . . and I must say, I think he wants Assistance.
Mr. Croghan is at present in Pensilvania, endeavouring to
find out a Plan I have heard of, in which several People had
entered into an Agreement, to go to join the enemy, and some
of them I hear were taken on the Road thither, and afterwards
dismissed ; If I can make anything of this, it may lead us to
the author of the Letters, which I shall search to the bottom,
as soon as I get to Philadelphia : Croghan will acquaint Mr.
Webb with what he can pick up, till I arrive, and will give no
suspition of what he is about. . . New York, Dec. 26th.”
Loudoun to Fox; January 4, 1757.” . . . (F. 1 V0)
“ On the first of this Month, we got Intelligence from a Mer-
chant in New York, that a Gentleman at Philadelphia, in the
Coffee house, about a fortnight ago, enquired if there was a
Letter at the Post Office here directed for Pierre Fidel; and
on being told there was said he wished he would forward it to
him, as the Gentleman for whom it was directed is now on the
Frontiers; the Merchant does not know the Man, but says,
he was dressed like an Oliicer, and thinks he is a Stranger.
This Intelligence came to Sir Charles Hardy, and on Sunday
morning I sent oil‘ Colonel Stanwix, and the Merchant to
point out the Man, with Orders, if he is still there, to secure
him & his Papers, and all such Persons as appear, either from
examining him, or from his Papers, to be engaged with him.
“Before the Information arrived, Mr. Webb was going to
Philadelphia, to take the Command of the Troops, & to
enquire after an account, I mentioned to you in a former
Letter, I had of a number of Men, that had assembled &
marched off, to join the Enemy, that they had been pursued
& taken; but I do not find that any one was ever punished