1To George Washington from William Brockenbrough, 29 September 1755 (Washington Papers)
...company commander on the frontier until late in 1761. As the regiment was at this time about to be disbanded, Woodward decided to return to Britain in order to seek an appointment as a “Sea Officer” on the Great Lakes (Fauquier to Lord Anson, 10 Dec. 1761, in
2To George Washington from Robert Orme, 10 November 1755 (Washington Papers)
...to convince you of by doing that Merit to your Disposition Conduct and Gallantry which they deserve and which a Friends Representation shall at least make better known that they may be at present on the other Side of the great Lake.
3To George Washington from Robert Dinwiddie, 8 May 1756 (Washington Papers)
...replaced by Gen. James Abercromby until Loudoun’s arrival, had fixed in December 1755 as one objective in 1756 an attack on Fort Frontenac and other forts that secured the French hold on the Great Lakes and St. Lawrence River, but he was receiving very little support for such a campaign from the American colonies. In a letter to Henry Fox on 10 May 1756 Dinwiddie reported that the Indians...
4From John Adams to George Washington, 6 January 1776 (Adams Papers)
...is in it, in the Progress of this War, as it is the Nexus of the Northern and Southern Colonies, as a Kind of Key to the whole Continent, as it is a Passage to Canada to the Great Lakes and to all the Indians Nations. No Effort to secure it ought to be omitted.
5To George Washington from John Adams, 6 January 1776 (Washington Papers)
...is in it, in the Progress of this War, as it is the Nexus of the Northern and Southern Colonies, as a Kind of Key to the whole Continent, as it is a Passage to Canada to the Great Lakes and to all the Indians Nations. No Effort to secure it ought to be omitted.
6To George Washington from Brigadier General Lachlan McIntosh, 3 April 1779 (Washington Papers)
...all the Nations held at sandusky, the result of which I am now informed is that the Wyandots are inclined to make peace with us. which I Judged would be the Case, or that they would remove over the Great Lakes.
7To George Washington from Brigadier General Lachlan McIntosh, 27 April 1779 (Washington Papers)
...in Concert with the other Army. and I should apprehend the Same would be necessary up the Susquahana as far as Tioga, which I think must Undoubtedly Remove the Northern as well as the Western Tribes over the great Lakes, or bring them to Terms, as they cannot otherwise think of planting so near our Garrisons, & Shew them we Mean to retaliate their Injurys by keeping possession of their...
8To George Washington from William Lord Stirling Alexander, 14 September 1782 (Washington Papers)
...make themselves Strong on the western lakes, and to Streighten our frontier on that Side as much as possible; and this they can effectually do, while they have access to Lake Ontario and of Course to all the Great Lakes above it. the only way I know of to Cut of that access effectually, is to possess a good respectable post at Oswegatie or La Gallete, it is Scituated at the head of the...
9To George Washington from Rufus Putnam, 16 June 1783 (Washington Papers)
, Niagara, Detroit, and all the posts seated on the great Lakes, will enevitably be lost
without such communication; for a Naval superiority on Lake Ontario, or the seising on Niagara, will subject the whole country, bordering on the Lakes, to the will of the Enemy—such a misfortune......it; but besides the supplying the Garrisons on the great Lakes with provisions &c.,...
10Enclosure, 15 June 1789 (Washington Papers)
The posts still held by the British government on the Great Lakes were not actually surrendered until after the ratification of the Jay Treaty in 1795.