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Expenses of the Post at Detroit
(October 14, 1712)
Dubuisson in: Michigan Historical
Collections, XXXIII, p. 568.
p. 568.
EXPENSES OF THE POST AT DETROIT.
Statement of what Mons. Dubuisson expended for the service of the King to attract the tribes to him and attach them to his interests to support him against the Outagamis and Mascoutins who had been paid by the English to destroy the post of Fort Pontchartrain at Detroit.
To Wit.
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4 barrels of powder of 50 livres each, to distribute
to the savages |
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bought from voyageurs at 4 franc per livre makes the sum of |
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800# |
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Item, 300 livres of bullets for the same purpose, at 50 sols per |
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livre |
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450# |
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Item, 60 sacks of Indian corn at 8# a sack to assist in feeding the |
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savages |
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480# |
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Item, 300 gun flints at 7# a hundred |
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21# |
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Item, 5 guns to give to five chiefs to attach them to Mons. Dubuis- |
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son's interests, each valued at 30# |
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150# |
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Item, 8 coverlets to cover certain important men killed with M. |
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Dubuisson valued at 30 #each |
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240# |
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Item, 8 pairs of mitasses for the same purpose at 7 livres 10 sols |
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a pair |
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60# |
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Item, 8 shirts for the same purpose, at 10 livres each |
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80# |
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Item, 100 livres of tobacco to give to the savages at all times, at 4 |
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francs per livre |
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400# |
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Item, 100 woodcutter's knives to serve as bayonets for the savages. |
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100# |
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Item, 3 livres of vermilion to paint the warriors at 40 francs a livre |
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120# |
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2901# |
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I certify that I supplied what is set down in this present statement for the service of the King in defending Fort Pontchartrain.
Given at Quebec, the 14th of Oct. 1712.
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Dubuisson. |
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