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Du Quesne to the
French Minister
(October 13, 1754)
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Du Quesne in: Doc. Rel. to the Col. Hist. of N. Y. (Paris Docs.: X), Vol. X, pp. 262-264 and inWisconsin Historical Collections, vol. 18, pp. 141-142. |
My Lord-
I have the honor to report to you what occured at the posts during the year.
The Indians of the North are very quiet because Sieur Marin, who commands at the Bay and leads the Indians at will, has procured repose for them by the peace he has caused to be concluded with the Christinaux.
The Sauteax of Camanestigwia and Michipicoton have had a difficulty among themselves. Seventeen of them have been killed, but this animosity, which is at present abated, has been prejudicial only to the hunting, and they are now quiet.
Chevalier de Repentigny, who commands at the Sault St. Mary, is busily engaged with the settlement of his post, which is essential for stopping all the Indians who come down from Lake Superior to Choueguen, but I do hear it said that this post yields a great revenue.
The Poutwatamis, Kickapoux, Mascouting and Scioux of the Prairies, have assembled together to go and destroy the Peories, who, for a long time, regard with insolence the other Indians; they are, moreover, people of no faith, who steal with impunity, even in their neighbor's cabins.
This war, in which I am not at all interested, can be productive only of a good effect in putting down such banditti; I have, nevertheless, ordered the Commandants to adjust all matters after these rascals will have received a sharp lesson.
As I had fixed for the Peanguichias to be at the Miamis where Sieur Pean would pass, and as those Indians have wait- (page 142) ed for that Officer with all possible patience, nearly a month, evincing great repentance for their fault, I have ordered the Commandant of the Wyantanons, whither that nation had retired, to grant them pardon on condition that they would bring me, next year, the murderers; by this means it may be calculated that these Indians have at present submitted.
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