Consolidated Docket No. 317, Defendant Exhibits 61-171

Dft. Ex. 144

Historical Account of Bouquet's Expedition
Against the Ohio Indians, in 1764.

pp. 1 (Title page), 153, 154, 155.

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HISTORICAL ACCOUNT

^OF

Bouquet's Expedition

AGAINST THE OHIO INDIANS,

IN 1764.

^{WITH PREFACE BY FRANCIS PARKMAN,
Author of "Conspiracy of Pontiac," etc.}

<sup>AND

A TRANSLATION OF DUMAS'
BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH OF GENERAL BOUQUET.</sup>

^{CINCINNATI, O.
ROBERT CLARKE, & CO.
1868.}

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Historical Account of
Bouquet's Expedition Against the
Ohio Indians, in 1764.
page 153.

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Appendix  V.

153

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APPENDIX V.

NAMES of different INDIAN NATIONS in NORTH-
AMERICA, with the Numbers of their Fighting 
Men; referred to in the Note, page 94.         

THE following list was drawn up by a French trader ____(illeg.) of considerable note, who __ ___ ___ (illeg.) years among the Indians, and ___ (illeg.) continues at Detroit, having taken the oaths of allegiance to the King of Great Britain. His account may be depended on, so far as matters of this kind can be brought near the truth; a great part of it being delivered from his own personal knowledge.

Canawaghaunas, near the falls of St. Louis Abenaquis, Michmacs} St. Lawrence Indians *Amalistes, *Chalas, Nipissins,   } living towards the heads of the Algonquins,      Ottawa river Les Tetes de Boule, or Round Heads, near the above Six Nations, on the frontiers of New-York, &c. Wiandots, near lake Erie Chipwas,  }near the Lakes Superior and Michigan Ottawas,

Warriors 200 350 700 550 130 400 300 2500 1550 300 5000 900 Messesagues,

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Historical Account of
Bouquet's Expedition Against the
Ohio Indians, in 1764.
page 154.

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154	Appendix  V.

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Messesagues, or River Indians, being wandering tribes,     on the lakes Huron and Superior, Powtewatamis, near St. Joseph's and Detroit Les Puans, Folle avoine, or Wild-Oat Indians  }near Puans bay *Mechecouakis, Sakis,          }South of Puans bay Mascoutens, Ouisconsins, on a river of that name, falling into the     Mississippi on the east-side Christinaux,                  }far north, near the lakes Assinaboes, or Assinipouals        of the same name Blancs Ý Barbus, or White Indians with Beards Sioux, of the meadows  }towards the heads of Sioux, of the woods          Missisippi Missouri, on the river of that name *Grandes Eaux Osages, Canses, Panis blancs,  }south of Missouri Panis piques, Padoucas, Ajoues, north of the same Arkanses, on the river that bears their name, falling     into Missisippi on the west side Alibamous, a tribe of the Creeks *Ouanakina *Chiakanessou *Machecous     } Unknown, unless the author has put *Caouitas           them for tribes of the Creeks *Souikilas Miamis, upon the river of that name, falling into     Lake Erie,

Warriors 2000 350 700 350 250 400 500 550 3000 1500 1500 2500 1800 3000 1000 600 1600 2000 1700 500 1100 2000 600 300 350 800 700 200 350

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Ý They live to the northwest, and the French, when they first say them, took them for Spaniards.

Delawares          

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Bouquet's Expedition Against the
Ohio Indians, in 1764.
page 155.

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Appendix  V.

155

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Delawares (les Loups) on the Ohio Shawanese on Sioto Kickapoos Ouachtanons  }on the Ouabache Peanquichas Kaskasquias, or Illinois in general, on the Illinois     river *Pianria Catawbas, on the frontiers of North-Carolina Cherokees, behind South-Carolina Chickasaws Natchez  }Mobile and Mississippi Chactaws

Warriors 600 500 300 400 250 600 800 150 2500 750 150  4500 56,500

THE above list consists chiefly of such Indians as the French were connected with in Canada and Louisiana. Wherever we knew the names by which the different nations are distinguished by the English, we have inserted them. But the orthography is yet very unsettled, and the several nations marked with an * asterism are unknown to us, and therefore they are left as they stand in the original list.

So large a number of fighting men may startle at first sight; but the account seems no where exaggerated, excepting only that the Catawba nation is now almost extinct. In some nations which

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