THE OHIO VALLEY-GREAT LAKES ETHNOHISTORY
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La Jonquire to Rouille
(September 27, 1751)
La Jonquire in: Archives
Nationales, Ministere
des Colonies, C11A 97:90 and in Illinois
Historical Collections, French
Series,
Vol. III, pp. 369-380.
We are told that there is a general unrest among all the tribes of the upcountry especially on the Wabash, where the English have sent wampum belts about all last winter, even as far as the Missouri and among the Osage, who have given assurance that they will not mix in these plots; only the Kickapoo and Mascoutens have been unwilling to receive the English belts. The report that was spread about that the English had sent belts among all the tribes of the Wabash and the Illinois is not confirmed, and there is some appearance that our fears for that side have made us too easily suspicious.
M. de Vaudreuil has written me that the Mascoutens intended to withdraw from the neighborhood of the Wea and that it would be very easy to establish that tribe near Vincennes where (page 377) it can be very useful, and as they are almost resolved to go there, he begs me to induce them to take that course, with all the more reason since they were on the point of withdrawing among the Foxes, their allies, where we would be less assured of their fidelity.
I have answered M. de Vaudreuil that the settlement in question cannot be allowed, since it is of infinite consequence to leave the Kickapoo and Mascoutens in their village near the Wea, less for the harm which their absence would do to the trade of that post than because those two nations being closely attached to the French, it behooves us to keep them in that place, especially under present circumstances.
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