THE OHIO VALLEY-GREAT LAKES ETHNOHISTORY
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Tonty Prevents a War Between
the Miamis and Ottawas
(November 8, 1718)
Vaudreuil and Begon in: Michigan Historical
Collections, XXXIII, pp. 595-598.
(page 597) for want of payment of this pension. We beg the Council to be good enough to have it paid to him for the past years.
We send a memorandum from the Sr. Peire on the establishments for the porpoise fishery which he is working. This year he has only made 22 barrels of oil, because the herring and small fish which attract the porpoises to land have not been abundant. We beg the Council graciously to continue to give him the gratuity of 400 livres granted to him on this account, as he takes great pains to maintain these establishments; and following his example, a fishery has this year been established, at the little river, near La Malbaye by the inhabitants of that place, who have caught 42 porpoises from which they have obtained about 32 barrels of oil.
We beg the Council to be good enough to continue the Sr. Sarrasin's gratuity of 500 livres which was granted him in 1716 on account of the studious research to which he applies himself in the intervals of his duties as physician, which he continues to fulfil with perfect ability and with his usual care. This year he has dissected a white shark and is sending in account of it to the Academie des Sciences; he is also raising several plants for the Jardin Royal which he will not be sending till next year as they have not yet taken root since he transplated them.
We beg the Council to continue M. de Longueuil's gratuity of 200 livres granted to him in consideration of his lodging at his house the Iroquois savages; also that of M. de Martinire, chief councillor, of 200 livres, in consideration of his long and good service, and of the bad state of his affairs.
We are sending the Council a memorial from the Sr. Desgly, major of Three Rivers, as to the claim that has been made against him for 240 livres for 3 tons freight which were granted to him in 1716 on a brigantine belonging to the Sr. Butler of Rochelle, which had been chartered by the King to convey His Majesty's effects for this Colony, which could not be taken in the ship "Le Franois." We beg the Council to dispense with his paying this sum, having regard to the bad state of his affairs and the money he is obliged to spend since M. de Gallifet's absence, as Commandant at Three Rivers, which is a place through which many people pass, being on the road from Quebec to Montreal.
The Sr. de Tonty, commandant at Detroit, last year settled two very difficult affairs, in which he was successful, which might have been very prejudicial to the Colony. He has represented to us that he was obliged to incur extraordinary expenses on this account which he asks to be reimbursed.
The first is a matter he adjusted on his way up to Detroit when, having met seventeen boats full of savages on Lake Ontario, from Detroit and Saguinan, who were going to Orange, he dissuaded them from doing so, induced six of them to come to Montreal and took eleven back with him to Detroit. It would have been unfortunate if these savages had gone to (page 598) Orange, where the English try to attract them by the low price of goods and by the presents they make to them; there would have been a danger of others going there, following their example which, after a time, might detach them from our side. This affair cost him 1180 livres, according to the annexed memorandum he has given of them.
He also spent 1574 livres on the other affair, that is the arrangement he contrived between the Miamis and the Outaouais when the former were preparing to go on the war path against the latter, on which the said Sr. de Vaudreuil is sending a separate report.
As expenses of this kind are very different from those which the said Sr. de Tonty is responsible for, for keeping up his post, and the two matters which caused them were of great importance to the Colony, we beg that the Council will take this into consideration and grant him the re-imbursement of these expenses in accordance with the statements of them, a copy of which is annexed.
We send a petition from the nuns hospitalers of Montreal regarding the freight for four tons which they beg the Council to grant them gratis in consideration of their very heavy expenses. As they have, in part, the care of the sick soldiers who are received in this hospital, and the latter are very well treated, we are induced to ask this favor for them from the Council.
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CADILLAC PETITIONS FOR COMPENSATION FOR HIS LOSSES
AT DETROIT.
Endorsed-Colonies. 1718. M. de La Motte Cadillac. Council.
To the Council of the Navy 1718.
La Mothe Cadillac, late Governor of Louisiana and formerly Captain of a Company and Commander of the fort Pontchartrain of Detroit on the Lake Erie, very humbly represents to the Council; That, in the year 1700, His Majesty decreed the establishment of the said Detroit and chose the said M. de La. Mothe to command there; and that in 1701 the old Beaver-Farm Company of France withdrew from it in favor of a company of the inhabitants of Canada, which charged itself with that farm and with turning to account its castor (beaver-musk) and at the same time asked for the exclusive right of trading at the said post of Detroit, which was granted to it on condition that it should reimburse and should pay to His Majesty all the costs and expenditure, as well as for
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