Lord Jeff Documents with Microfilm Index & Text Files of Excerpts

Microfilm reel references are to the British Manuscript Project, Library of Congress

For a complete checklist of documents in the British Manuscript Project, see:

British manuscripts project; a checklist of the microfilms prepared in England and Wales for the American Council of Learned Societies, 1941-1945. Compiled by Lester K. Born. (New York, Greenwood Press [1968]) (reprint of the 1955 edition)
Library of Congress Call No.: Z6620.G7 U5 1968

• "... every Tree is become an Indian...." Colonel Henry Bouquet to General Amherst, dated 29 June 1763 [63k]; microfilm reel 34/40, item 290. Text file [1k]
• Colonel Henry Bouquet to General Amherst, dated 13 July 1763, [262k] suggests in a postscript the distribution of blankets to "inocculate the Indians" ; microfilm reel 34/40, item 305. Text file [2k]
• Amherst to Bouquet, dated 16 July 1763, [128k] approves this plan in a postscript and suggests as well as "to try Every other method that can serve to Extirpate this Execrable Race" ; microfilm reel 34/41, item 114. Text file [2k]
• 26 July 1763, Bouquet acknowledges Amherst's approval [125k] and writes, "all your Directions will be observed" ; microfilm reel 34/40, item 315. Text file [1k]
• Bouquet to Amherst, dated 23 June 1763, [189k] stating that Captain Ecuyer has reported smallpox in Fort Pitt; microfilm reel 34/40, item 281. Text file [2k]
• "...that Vermine ... have forfeited all claim to the rights of humanity" (Bouquet to Amherst, 25 June 1763) [149k]; microfilm reel 34/40, item 289. Text file [2k]
• "I would rather chuse the liberty to kill any Savage...." (Bouquet to Amherst, 25 June 1763) [121k]; microfilm reel 34/40, item 289. Text file [2k]
• "...Measures to be taken as would Bring about the Total Extirpation of those Indian Nations" (Amherst to Sir William Johnson, Superintendent of the Northern Indian Department, 9 July 1763) [229k]; microfilm reel 34/38, item 244. Text file [2k]
• "...their Total Extirpation is scarce sufficient Attonement...." (Amherst to George Croghan, Deputy Agent for Indian Affairs, 7 August 1763) [145k]; microfilm reel 34/38, item 249. Text file [2k]
• "...put a most Effectual Stop to their very Being" (Amherst to Johnson, 27 August 1763, [292k] emphasis in original); microfilm reel 34/38, item 257. Text file [2k]