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The French were coming! The great council of Mingos, Shawnees, Delawares, Wyandots and Miamis had been held at Logstown. Christopher Gist was there and a man named Captain Joseph Fry to sign for Virginia. Washington had stayed home. Gist said that Washington's brother, the sick chief, had died, and Washington was needed to comfort the widow.
The Iroquois from Onondago the council seat did not come.