THE OHIO VALLEY-GREAT LAKES ETHNOHISTORY
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La Jonquiere to Rouille
(September 17, 1751)
La Jonquiere in: Archives
Nationales, Ministere
des Colonies, C11A 97:69 and in Illinois
Historical Collections, French
Series,
Vol. III, pp. 347-355.
p. 354.
I learned this spring that a Potawatomi of St. Joseph who came to see me last year, on leaving Montreal went with his band to Oswego, where he received a message from the English on the part of the Shawnee, the Miami, and other refugee tribes of the Ohio River, together with a blue blanket ornamented with designs in wampum and considerable presents to invite them to be of their party and to betray the French; I learned also that this chief and his band seemed disposed to fulfil the wishes of these rebels. I am giving orders to the Sieur de la Corne to inform himself on this affair, to forestall its consequences, to get back this speech and this blanket and to send them to me.
The Sieur de Beaujeu Villemonde, commandant at Kaministiquia and Michipicoten, has informed me that pursuant to my orders, he has succeeded in restoring peace and quiet among the Indians of his post, as well as in preventing them from making war on the Sioux. This corresponds perfectly to what the Sieur Marin writes me.
The said Sieur de Beaujeu informs me at the same time, that of forty Indians in the post of Michipicoten, thirty-four are dead and the remaining six gone off toward Hudson Bay.
With regard to the post of Chequamegon, nothing interesting has happened. Everything is very quiet. I am with very profound respect, Monseigneur,
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La JONQUIERE |
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