Note 409 — Chapter XXVI · 1764. BRADSTREET’S ARMY ON THE LAKES.
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MS. Letter—Gage to Bradstreet, Sept. 2:—
Bradstreet’s instructions directed him to offer peace to such tribes as should make their submission. “To offer peace,” writes Gage, “I think can never be construed a power to conclude and dictate the articles of peace, and you certainly know that no such power could with propriety be lodged in any person but in Sir William Johnson, his majesty’s sole agent and superintendent for Indian affairs.”