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“I am of opinion that it is highly requisite forthwith to pass a law, prohibiting upon great penalties all trade with our enemies, and more especially the supplying of them with arms, ammunition or provisions of any kind whatsoever.”

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Book:Correspondence of William Shirley, Governor of Massachusetts and military commander in America, 1731-1760
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“I don't flatter myself with much dependence upon the present disposition of the Eastern Indians, who are many ways liable to be drawn into a rupture with us by the artifices of the French, their own weakness and the influence which the French Missionary Priests have over them.”

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Book:Correspondence of William Shirley, Governor of Massachusetts and military commander in America, 1731-1760
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