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Letter to Pontchartrain
(Fort Louis, January 2, 1716)
Bienville, Jean Baptiste le Moyne, Sieur de in:
(AC, C13, Gen. Corr. Louisiana, vol. IV, pp. 759-772)
and in Mississippi Provincial Archives,
vol. III, pp. 191-197.
pp. 191,
192.
. . . We learned from him that Sieur Guenet who had had orders from his Majesty to go to the said place of St. Jerome with fifty Canadians had not arrived there; that it was not even probable that he would be able to come because of the wars that the Mascoutens and Fox Indians were making against the French; that news had been received that two French canoes that were going to the Illinois on behalf of the Marquis de Vaudreuil to invite that nation to come and join our Indians from Canada in order to make war on this Fox nation had been killed. . .
. . . I spoke to Mr. Crozat's director in order to have some made and at the
same time I informed him that I had reason to apprehend that I should not be
able to succeed in building a fort at St. Jerome with twenty-one new soldiers;
that perhaps Mr. de Lamothe at his request might be able to increase my
detachment; that the mouth of the St. Jerome River 1
was the passage-way for all the warriors of the Illinois, Miami, Chickasaw and
Cherokee nations who made war on each other and who ordinarily killed and
plundered all those whom they found on the way allied as well as enemies; that
I begged him to take measures so that Mr. de Lamothe might give me only thirty
men for each post, which he could not accomplish. . . .
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1. The Wabash River
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