Dartmouth, official report of "Affairs in Virginia; The Indian
Expedition" 24 December 1774 From Documentary History of
Dunmore's War, edited by Reuben Gold Thwaites and Louise Phelps
Kellogg (Madison: Wisconsin Historical Society, 1905), p. 368-96
The last quarrel with the Indians, as far as the Virginians were
concerned in it, took its rise from, or rather never Subsided
after, the expedition of Mr. Bouquet. In the Treaty concluded on
that occasion, it was Stipulated that all the white prisoners,
which the Indians had carried off, should be restored; among
which were a great many young Virginia Women and men, and
negroes; and the Indians, notwithstanding the treaty, have
detained them, till on this late occasion they were compelled to
give them up. This has been ever Since a Source of uneasiness in
this Country; and it has been aggravated by the continual
depredations of the Indians, and some Shocking Murders Committed
by them on the people of the Frontiers. The very year after this
Treaty a Man was killed