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Cadillac Makes Arrangements With the Jesuits
(November 4, 1702)
Callieres, Chev. de in: Michigan Historical
Collections, Vol. XXXIII, p. 158.
p. 158.
CADILLAC MAKES ARRANGEMENTS WITH THE JESUITS.
Endorsed-Colonies. M. de Callieres. 4th Nov. 1702.
My Lord,
The Sr. de la Motte very conveniently happened to be here to settle the affair of the Revd. Father Vaillant in conformity with what you wrote to me; and an arrangement has been made in my presence between the Sr. de la Motte and the Superior of the Jesuits (Index letter H.) a copy of which I annex hereto, which I hope will prevent any new quarrels occurring in the future.
The Sr. de Tonty also sends me word that certain savages, formerly settled at the Sault and now with the Hurons of Detroit, have been to trade at Orange*, with some of that tribe, and that they brought belts on behalf of the English to invite our Savages of the upper country to go and see them in order to make their acquaintance. On this the chiefs of those at Detroit went to the Sr. de Tonty to tell him that, if he did not cause the goods to be given them cheap, they could not prevent their young men from going to the English for them, who offer them to them at a low price, or from inviting the English to bring them some to some meeting-place; which makes me greatly fear that these intrigues may have disastrous consequences to the Colony.
Your very humble, very obedient and most obliged Servant,
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The Chev. de Callieres. |
Quebec, the 4th of Nov. 1702.
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Vol. 5, p. 935.
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