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Report From La Baye
(May 16, 1758)
In: N. Y. D. C. H.: X:840
and in
"1758: Disturbance at La Baye,"
Wisconsin Historical
Collections, vol. 18,
p. 203.
p. 203.
1758: DISTURBANCES AT LA BAYE
[Reports from several sources of an emeute at the post of La Baye. The first, reprinted from N. Y. Colon. Docs., x, p. 840.]
May 16th. News
from all the Upper posts. * * * The Commandant of Detroit is dying;54 the Five Nations go
rarely to Niagara; there is a little fermentation and discontent against us
among the Indians of St. Joseph, the Miamis, and Outias [Ouiatanon]. The Folles
Avoins have killed eleven Canadians at The Bay; missed the Commandant and
pillaged a storehouse. A great many Indians have died at Michilimakinac. The
Commandant of Louisiana writes that they have had no ships from France for two
years, and that he is greatly embarrassed having nothing to give the Nations.
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54 This was Sieur de Muy, for whom see Wis. Hist. Colls., xvii, p. 183. His death is there given too early; it occurred May 18, 1758. He was second in command at Detroit under Cloron, being appointed chief commandant and major in 1755.- ED.
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