Consolidated Docket No. 317, Defendant Exhibits 61-171

Dft. Ex. 146

Extracts in English taken from the Letter Books of
the Marquis de Vaudreuil (Folio 33)

p. 1.

 


Vaudreuil-Cavagnal, Pierre Francois M. de Rigaud,
Marquis de
Extracts in English taken from the letter books of the
Marquis de Vaudreuil,
August 30, 1744 (In the Handwriting of John Appy)
(in Loudoun Collection, Huntington Library, Folio 33)


     "August 30th 1744. Folio 33.
"Proposed. - a Fort on the Ouabacha, (in a letter, December 6th 1744, he more explicitly mentions this Post as 12. Leagues below the Mouthe.) within 12 leagues of its' Mouth: as it would answer the Ends above proposed; would also restrain the Incursions of the Cherokees on that River & the River Mississippi.- it would also check the Tchikachas and restrain the Encroachments of the English.- here to he says, Miscoutens & Kikapoux, established at the Grand Ouat, would come & Settle."

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