THE OHIO VALLEY-GREAT LAKES ETHNOHISTORY
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M. de Bienville on the
Chicachas, Natchez & Chactas
Bienville in: Dunn, J. P.,
Mission to the Ouabache, pp. 255-330.
p. 308.
. . . (illeg. copy) in the posts:
To M. de Vincennes, comandant at the Ouabache.
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For allowance |
800 livres.] |
No. 21
From "La Louisiane"- M. de Bienville sur les sauvages Chicachas, Natchez & Chactas:
Le Sr. De Vincennes qui y commande lui mande qui les Peanguichas qui sont tablis auprs de notre fort ont envie d'attirer eux un village de la mme nation qui est rest a 60 lieues plus haut Deux raisons lui font goter ce dessein, la premire pour fortifier ntre Etablissement, et la Seconde pour ter a ce village la commodit de commencer avec les Anglois qui ont deux Magazins etablis chez les Chaouanons sur la Riviere d'Oio.
[TRANSLATION. Sieur de Vincennes, who commands there, informs me that the Piankeshaws, who are established near our fort, wish to draw to them a village of the same tribe which is located sixty leagues higher up. Two reasons make him approve this plan; the first is to strengthen our establishment, and the second to remove from this village the chance to trade with the English, who have established two store-houses in the country of the Shawnees on the River Ohio.]1
No. 22
From a report by the Govnerors- Bienville and Salmon- addressed to the Minister, and dated 8th April, 1734:
Pour ce qui concerne Ouabache, M. de Vincennes de qui nous n'avions point
encore eu des nouvelles, nour marque
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1 The Ohio above the mouth of the Wabash. In all this early period the Wabash was considered the main stream emptying into the Mississippi, while the Ohio was a tributary of the Ouabache.
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