(seq. 156)

February 26th
continued -

I applyed to {Colonel} Clarke several times for naming the day
of our departure that I might has biscuit baked for the March
in vain -

Two of his men acquainted some of the soldiers who informed me
of it, to be on my guard as there was a design of shooting me
thro' the head formed by some of the rebel gentry, but I thought
best not to appear to credit it, however twice in the night I was
alarmed by two drunken men who took their pieces & were advancing
to the tent where Major Hay and I slept in the fort, but providenially
one of us was awake each time and alarmed the other - we complained
of this to {Colonel} Clarke who said he would make enquiry, but it did not
appear any one was punished, tho our report was confirmed -

One of these men accompanied us when we were sent off, but the
poor creature was afterwards very inoffensive, and was one of those
sometime after wounded by a party of Indians who killed William
Moyres, {Colonel} Clarke's express, & carried some of his comrades prisoners
to Detroit -

March 5th.
The Party under Captain Helm returned having got possession of
the convoi of Provisions from the Miamis -

To my great surprize I saw Mr. Philip Dejean who had acted as
Justice of Peace at Detroit who was taken prisoner with a packett
of letters for me, which he had not presence of mind to destroy tho
the day before he had had information of St. Vincennes being in the
hands of the Rebels - with this convoy came cloathing and private
stores for myself and the other officers, every article of which {Colonel} {Clarke}
made prize of never offering us the smallest part, nor even asking us
to drink a glass of our own wine -

Before our setting off I found that some of the soldiers and even
others of whom I had conceived a better opinion, had made their terms
with {Colonel} Clarke without saying any thing to me, & even did not
come to take leave when we set off. CC. L. &ca -