102 Proceedings of the Council of Maryland, 1761-1769.

Lib. J. R.
& U. S.

His Excellency is pleased to lay before this Board the fol-
lowing Letter from Col^o Henry Bouquet

Conegocheague in Maryland 20^th Dec^r 1764.
Sir

I am Sorry to be obliged to inform you of a Fact lately com-
mitted, which may have consequences very fatal to our
Frontiers.
I was told yesterday that M^r John Wolgamot who com-
manded a Company of Maryland Voluntiers in the last Expe-
dition, had produced publickly at Frederick Town the Scalp
of an Indian killed since the Treaty I have made with them.
I sent immediately for that Gentleman, who has this day
been with me, he confesses the Fact, and says that being on
his way home with his Company, at one days March on this
side of Fort Pitt, one of his Men named James Bow had ac-
quainted him, that he had killed an Indian near Pittsburgh,
whose Scalp he had delivered to him desiring he would en-
deavour to obtain the Reward.
Instead of apprehending the Murderer he suffered him to
remain with two other Men to hunt in the Woods where he
is still.
At the time when the Voluntiers of your Government joined
us, The army was encamped at Tuskerawas, where I informed
all their Officers that We had entered into a Negotiation with
the Indians, and that it was forbid on pain of Death to kill
any of them.
After every thing was concluded with them at Musking-
ham, tho' all the Conferences had been held in publick, and in
presence of the Troops, they were informed in the Publick
Orders of that day of the conclusion of the Treaty, and that
those Nations were for the future to be treated as Friends.
Therefore Cap^tWolgamot nor any Person in the Army can
pretend to have been ignorant of it.
An agravating Circumstance of this murder is that the
Indian killed must have been either one of the Hostages or a
Deputy of the Shawnese, who all ran Suddenly away from
us at Fort Pitt, of which I could not conceive the Reason till I
heard of this Crime
I make no doubt that you will give the necessary orders to
have the said James Bow apprehended, but as he is at present
out of the Settlements, if he is aware of his danger he will
keep himself out of the way
And as the Scalp is in the Possession of M^r John Wolgamat
who has produced it publickly and with great Ostentation, in