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[REVOLUTIONARY WAR]. BRODHEAD, Daniel (1736-1809), Brigadier General, Continental Army. Autograph letter signed ("Daniel Brodhead Col. 1st P[ennsylvania] R[egiment], to Joseph Reed, President of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, 22 May 1781. 2 full pages, folio, slight marginal fraying, separated along vertical fold.
THE MEN "KILLED ONE OF THEIR GREATEST VILLAINS & BROUGHT HIS SCALP TO ME..." Brodhead, a seasoned veteran of the Revolution, fought at the Battle of Long Island and was at this date military commandant at Fort Pitt (Pittsburgh). The Delaware Indians had mounted devastating attacks on frontier settlements in Pennsylvania and Ohio, breaking a treaty arranged with Brodhead. This lengthy letter contains a detailed report of recent punitive expeditions by Brodhead and his men troops against the Indians and Indian villages in the Ohio country: "With about three hundred men," Brodhead writes, "I surprised the Towns of Cooshacking & Indaochaie, killed fifteen Warriors and took [as prisoners] upwards of twenty old men women & children. . . The Troops experienced great kindness from the Moravian Indians . . . The Troops behaved with great Spirit & although there was considerable firing between them & the Indians, I had not a man killed or wounded & only one horse shot."
Provenance: Frank T. Siebert (sale, Sotheby's, 21 May 21, 1999, lot 294)
THE MEN "KILLED ONE OF THEIR GREATEST VILLAINS & BROUGHT HIS SCALP TO ME..." Brodhead, a seasoned veteran of the Revolution, fought at the Battle of Long Island and was at this date military commandant at Fort Pitt (Pittsburgh). The Delaware Indians had mounted devastating attacks on frontier settlements in Pennsylvania and Ohio, breaking a treaty arranged with Brodhead. This lengthy letter contains a detailed report of recent punitive expeditions by Brodhead and his men troops against the Indians and Indian villages in the Ohio country: "With about three hundred men," Brodhead writes, "I surprised the Towns of Cooshacking & Indaochaie, killed fifteen Warriors and took [as prisoners] upwards of twenty old men women & children. . . The Troops experienced great kindness from the Moravian Indians . . . The Troops behaved with great Spirit & although there was considerable firing between them & the Indians, I had not a man killed or wounded & only one horse shot."
Provenance: Frank T. Siebert (sale, Sotheby's, 21 May 21, 1999, lot 294)