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List of Indian Parties
(Poste de Pianquichias,
April 24-September 8, 1737)
In: Paris Archives,
Colonies, C 11 A 67,
pp. 212-213 and Translation.
pp. 212-213,
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Liste des partys sauvages [illeg] Canada |
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qui ont pass au Poste de Pianquichias pour aller sur les Chicachas a Commencer le Vingt quatre avril jusque et Compris le 8 Sbre de l'anne mil sept cent trente sept |
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Un party de seize hommes quiKapou est pass au poste d'ouabache le 24e avril et il a point repass, j'ay apris que le dit Party avoit amen deux hommes et une femme cy |
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Un party de soixante hommes Sakias et Poutouatamis de la riviere St Joseph y a pass le 9. May et n'a point repass Jay appris par le nomm Butteau qu'ils avoient amen Trois hommes chicachas cy |
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Un party de quarante hommes Pianquichias du Village du Vermillon y a pass le 10 May revenant des Chicachas ils ont amen un homme aport une chevelure de femme et deux enfants cy |
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J'ay apris le 12 juin qu'un party de miamiys etoit de retours des Chicachas, et qu'ils avoient tu et prit huit Personnes tants hommes que femmes cy |
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Un party de Vingt trois hommes outaouanon d'Etroit y a pass pour aller sur les Chicachas |
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Le 6. Juillet est revenue le 26 aoust il sont amen deux hommes et Une Chevelure [illeg] cy |
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Le 22. Juillet Un party de Vingt Six hommes Poutouamys du d'Etroite y a pass et repass |
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Le 22 Sbre ont a port Une Chevelure Dhomme |
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Un party de Vingt hommes hurrons du d'Etroit y a Pass le 2e Aoust revenant des Chicaches ont amen quatre hommes et une chevelure [illeg] Cy |
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Un party de douze hommes hurons revenant des Chicachas Ils ont apport une Chevelure d homme et deux de femme ont aussy ammen un homme et deux Enfents male d'Environ huit anne chaques Cy |
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Un party de trente hommes Mascoutins y a pass et n a point repass |
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Un party de trente hommes quiKapou y a Pass Le 8 Sbr et n a point repass |
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Un party de quarante hommes oyatanons y a pass le 8e Sbre et est repass le 30e Sbre Ils ont amen un homme et apport une Chevelure [illeg] Cy |
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Un party de Sauteurs du detroit y a pass le 8e Sbre revenant des Chicachas ont apport une Chevelurre d h'omme cy |
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Un Chef. des ouyatonnos m a dit le 1 Se [illeg] qun party de quicapou etoit de retour des Chicachas |
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qu'il avoient un homme et apport une Chevelur |
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Jay appris dans le Courrant de Juillet par plusieurs Voyageurs qui revinirient des Oyatannons qun party de quikapou avoient amen deux hommes cy |
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depuis deux petits partys hurrons ont amenn au d'Etroit 12 Chicachas C'est pere de la Richardie qui les mand aux Jesuites des Ilinois |
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Jay Encore apris q'un autre Party huron avoit Pass au poste d'ouabache depuis peu et quil avoient amen 7 chicachas cy |
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List of Indian parties [from?] Canada who have |
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passed the Poste de Pianquichias to go against the Chickasaws, beginning the twenty-fourth of April, up to and including Sept. 8 of the year one thousand seven hundred and thirty-seven |
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A party of sixteen Kickapoo men passed the Wabash Post April 24 and has not returned; I have learned that the said party had brought in two men and one woman. Item |
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A party of sixty men, Sacs and Potawatomis from the St Joseph River, passed here May 9 and has not returned. I have learned from a man named Butteau that they had brought in three Chickasaw men. Item |
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A party of forty Piankashaw men from the village of Vermilion passed here May 10, returning from the Chickasaws. They brought in one man and carried a woman's scalp and two children. Item |
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I learned June 12 that a party of Miamis was returning from the Chickasaws, and that they had killed and taken eight persons, an equal number of men and women. Item |
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A party of twenty-three Wea men from Detroit passed to go against the Chickasaws |
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July 6, and returned August 26. They brought in two men and one scalp [?]. Item |
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July 22 a party of twenty-six Potawatomi |
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Sept. 22 they brought a man's scalp. |
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A party of twenty Huron men from Detroit passed here August 2, returning from the Chickasaws; they brought in four men and one scalp [?]. Item |
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A party of twelve Huron men returning from the Chickasaws; they carried one man's scalp and two women's, and also brought in a man and two male children of about eight years each. Item |
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A party of thirty Mascoutin men passed here and has not returned. |
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A party of thirty Kickapoo men passed here Sept. 8 and has not returned. |
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A party of forty Wea men passed here Sept. 8 and returned Sept. 30; they brought in one man and carried one scalp [?]. Item |
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A party of Sauteurs from Detroit passed here Sept. 8, returning from the Chickasaws; they carried one man's scalp. Item |
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A Wea chief told me Sept. 1 [?] that a party of Kickapoos was returning from the Chickasaws, |
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that it had a man and carried one scalp |
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I learned in the course of July from several voyageurs who had returned from the Weas that a party of Kickapoos had brought in two men. Item |
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Since [then] two small Huron parties have brought in to Detroit 12 Chickasaws. It was the father of La Richardie who reported them to the Jesuits of Illinois. |
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I have also learned that another Huron party had passed the Wabash Post recently and that it had brought in 7 Chickasaws. Item |
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