Virginia State Papers, I., 601.]--besides the companies of Detroit rangers who went with the large war parties--and they were all armed and urged on by the British at Detroit.

One of the official British reports to Lord George Germaine, made on October 23d of this year, deals with the Indian war parties employed against the northwestern frontier.

"Many smaller Indian parties have been very successful....

It would be endless and difficult to enumerate to your Lordship the parties that are continually employed upon the back settlements.

From the Illinois country to the frontiers of New York there is a continual succession...