Gazette Of The United States, & Philadelphia Daily Advertiser

Extract of a letter from Lt. Colonel Commandant Thomas Butler, to the Secretary of War, dated Fort Fayette, (Pittsburgh) February 3, 1797.

"I am sorry to inform you that, on the morning of the 28th ult. died at this place of an inflammatory fever, the village chief MISQUACOO.CAW, or (RED POLE) of the Shawnee Nation. As he was a man of note in his Nation, I conceived it proper to have his remains decently buried, which was performed on the 29th with military parade. His friend, Blue Jacket, seems sensible that every attention was paid to him during his illness, as well as a proper respect to his remains at burial, and requests me to inform you, that they regret the loss of so great a man, and particularly, at a time when they had come to pay a visit to the President; but says that it has been the case with them, as with other nations, from the beginning of time, to lose their friends, and that he hopes it will have no tendency to lessen the friendship of his nation to the people of the United States, and that when he returns to his people he will encourage these sentiments."

I have informed Blue Jacket that I will write to you for permission to place a stone at the head of the deceased's grave to point out the place of his interment to their friends when they choose to visit this place, which was highly pleasing to him.