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Beauharnois to the Minister
(July 24, 1733)
Beauharnois in "Boishebert's Report on the Indian
Trouble," in: Michigan Pioneer and Historical
Collections, Vol. 34, pp. 108-109.
p. 108.
BOISHEBERT'S REPORT ON THE INDIAN TROUBLE.
Endorsed- Duplicate. Canada, 24 July, 1733.
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M. de Beauharnois |
Extract. |
Monseigneur,
I have received a letter from the Sr. de Boishebert dated the 13th of June
last, who tells me that he has put four parties in the field to go against the
Chicachas; namely, one of fifty-six Saulteurs1 and
Missiagues2 whom he had invited during his journey
round Lake Huron, one of forty-eight Outaouais, another of thirty-six of the same
tribe, and another of ten with six Poutouatamis; that there are two parties of
Hurons ready to start as soon as they receive news from Montreal, and that he
has just learnt from voyageurs who have come from the Onyatanous that,
as soon as the Sr. de Vincennes became aware of my intentions, he made some
Peauguichias go on the war path against the Chicachas, that they killed several
of them and made two prisoners, whom the Sr. de Vincennes is bringing here.
These same voyageurs told him that the Frenchmen who had been attacked
at Oabache this autumn had had three men killed, and three others made
prisoners; that the Chicachas had kept two of them as hostages, and sent back
the third named Le Breton- to the Illinois to ask the French for peace. The Sr.
de Durnand writes me on the 1st of June and tells me the same thing, with this
difference, that he adds that the Chicachas sent the man Le Breton to the
Illinois with a calumet of peace which they had formerly received from them,
and that they ask me for peace by this calumet, and to take pity on them and
grant them their lives, and to grant them permission to make a settlement at
Oabache. He also sends me word that Le Breton reported that the Chactas had
destroyed a village of the Chicachas and forty Englishmen from the sea: and
that the Chicachas chiefs had severely reprimanded their young men for having
killed French people at Oabache, as they wished no evil to those of the
governorship of Canada, and because the Frenchmen who were killed did not stand
upon their defence.
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1 The Saulteurs were also known as Chippewas or Ojibwas. Charlevoix called them Pauoirigoueiouhak. The name Saulteurs means dwellers at the Sault. Their principal place was 30 leagues from Michilimackinac on Lake Superior. They numbered 30,000 in 1836.
2 Missiagues were an Algonquion tribe living on Lake Huron and forming villages between that lake and Lakes Erie and Ontario.
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