THE OHIO VALLEY-GREAT LAKES ETHNOHISTORY
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Bussy to Choiseul
(August 25, 1761)
Bussy, Francois de in: Affaires
Etrangeres,
Cor. Pol.: Angleterre, 444:202- extract
and in Pease, French Series, vol. II,
1936, pp. 367-371.
As to the territory on either side of the Ohio, they add that the court of England maintains it is theirs, on the pretext that the Indians of the Six Nations to whom it belonged, sold it to them in correct form. They say that the English ministry also claims that the Cherokee country was sold to the English by the said tribes in 1729; that the Chickasaw are subjects of England; that there are English settlements in their country; that the English have trading houses and settlements among the Creek Indians except for Fort Toulouse or Alabama, which they say was usurped by the French from the English, who had been established there (page 371) twenty-eight years before. Finally they say that the English ministry is assured that the Six Nations have extended their possessions as far as the country of the Miami and the Illinois, after subjugating those tribes, and that they have sold it to the English and that to them consequently all this land belongs.
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