| Description | New York, intelligence received from Captain Forbes, concerning the opposition shown by the inhabitants of the Illinois on his endeavouring to form them into regular companies of militia
Enclosure, Captain Forbes to [Major-General Thomas Gage] 15 Apr 1768 Fort Chartres, reasons for the expense of this country to the Crown, in consequence he has issued a placard forbidding the inhabitants to send any peltry down the river before acquainting him with the quantity, and at the same time giving a bond of £200, that they should land it in a British port |