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An Abridgment
of the Indian Affairs

(May 21, 1717)


Wraxall, Peter in: Harvard Historical
Studies, vol. XXI, p. 118.

p. 118.

(page 118)

. . . Albany 21 May 1717.

Some Indians arrive at Albany from a French settlement called Wanajachtenock,1 to Trade & say they would willingly trade with us but the French hinder them & wish (P. 110) this Govt would build a Fort near their Habitations & put Men into it to protect them from the French who oppose their Trading hither. .
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1. Detroit.-- Ed.



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