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An Abridgment
of the Indian Affairs
(Feb. 8, 1730)
Wraxall, Peter in: Harvard Historical
Studies, vol. XXI, pp. 182, ?.
... (P. 163) Albany 8 Febry 1730/31 By a Letter from the Commissrs to the Govr I find among other Acts of the French to prevent the Farr Indians trading with us, they raised a Report in their Country that the Plague & Small Pox (wch is full as dreadful to the Indians) raged at New York. The Commissrs propose that Persons shall have passes to go amongst the far Indians in order to contradict & convince them of the falshood of these Reports. . .
In 1730 it was reported from Canada "that in
the country around Lake Erie the English are found scattered as far as the sea,
trading with the Chaouenons, the Miamis and the Onyatanons [Wea]."3
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3. Mich. Pioneer Hist. Colls. XXXIV, pp. 75-76.
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