THE OHIO VALLEY-GREAT LAKES ETHNOHISTORY
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D'Orgon to Vaudreuil
(October 7, 1752)
D'Orgon in: Huntington Library
Mss., Loudoun Coll. 399 and
in Pease and Jenison,
French Series, III,
pp. 735-740.
The Illinois appear (page 736) reasonably quiet. There is no news at all of the Piankashaw and the Miamis, save that they have attacked the Kickapoo, and the Mascoutens have begged M. de Macarty to release Le Loup to them, which he has granted them; and they seem quite sensible of this favor. A Miami still remained in prison who found the secret of procuring his liberty of which the rules of war deprived him.
August 29
Four Wea came to lodge in the house of the Jesuit fathers, to testify their confidence in those reverend fathers. The Reverend Father de Guyenne was told in the evening but could not get there until the next morning. He found two medal chiefs with whom he talked long, always with the zeal and love of country of which these fathers give proofs on all occasions. He learned they were charged with letters for M. de Macarty, that they had seen M. de Ligneris, commandant of the French post of Ouiatanon, near the village, that half of their people who had taken sides with the Piankashaw had abandoned them, that the (page 737) Miami of Great Miami River to whom the Piankashaw had withdrawn had been attacked by two hundred men, Ottawa and Chippewa of Mackinac, who had killed five men and captured four squaws whom they then gave to the English of the post in recompense for the seven of their men whom they had killed.
The Wea added that the Piankashaw had no forts on White River, but that the English planned a considerable establishment on one of the branches of White River, that nearest the Illinois. They say many men have come from Canada who apparently have these posts blocked up at present. When they wrote me, the Wea had not yet seen M. de Macarty, so I don't know what message they brought him.
M. de Reggio, who was to command the convoy coming down, would have already come down if he had found enough water, but it is lower than it has been in twenty years.
M. du Clos found the convoy of M. Benoist three leagues from Grand Gulf. That convoy left here the twenty-first so it has made twenty-three leagues in fifteen days.
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