THE OHIO VALLEY-GREAT LAKES ETHNOHISTORY
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Relating to the Ohio Company
of Virginia
Mulkearn, Lois, compiler and editor,
in:
George Mercer Papers, University
of
Pittsburgh Press, 1954, p. 489
pp. 489.
In 1738 the Wyandot (English) or Huron (French) Indians living with the Ottawas at Detroit asked permission of the French to migrate to Montreal, for the Ottawas, resentful of a peace concluded between the Hurons and their traditional enemies, the Flat heads, had turned against the Hurons and threatened to exterminate them. This leave was granted the Hurons, but "The drunken Angouirot," the third chief of the tribe, opposed the move. Caustic remarks by the chiefs at Sault St. Louis (Montreal) about the peace between the Hurons and the Flatheads and fear of loss of prestige in fleeing under pressure from an enemy prevented this migration. The Hurons planting grounds had for some years been at Sandusky, in the vicinity of present Venice, Ohio. Here they met English traders and by July 14, 1741 ,the French recognized the loss of the Sandusky Hurons. (Wisconsin Historical Society Collections, XVII, 280, 308, 330-32, 349-50.)
In 1742 more Detroit Hurons, under the leadership of Chief Nicholas, joined Angouirot at Sandusky where the tribe was under the influence of English traders. Chief Nicholas not only weaned the Hurons away from the French orbit, but also gathered in his sphere many of the other tribes living in the Ohio Country. A massacre of French traders in 1747 and discovery of the rebel Indians' plot against Detroit caused Chief Nicholas to flee from Sandusky early in 1748 and establish himself and his band on the Muskingum (Gipson, op. cit., IV, 173-85). In September, 1748, Conrad Weiser held council with the chiefs of the Wyandots at Logstwon on the Ohio. The chief informed him that there were 100 fighting men of the Wynadots who had come over to join the English, of which 70 were left behind at another town, but they hoped that they would follow them. (Journal of Conrad Weiser. . ., 1748, op. cit.)
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