THE OHIO VALLEY-GREAT LAKES ETHNOHISTORY ARCHIVES: THE
MIAMI COLLECTION
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(July 27, 1734)
Bienville in: Dunn, Jacob Piat, Mission
to the Ouabache, pp. 255-330.
p. 308.
INDIANS OF THE RIVER OUABACHE.
Sieur de Vincennes, who commands there, reports that the Piankeshaws, who are settled near our fort, desire to draw to them a village of the same nation which is 60 leagues higher up. Two reasons make him favor this design; the first to strengthen our establishment, and the second to take from this village the opportunity for trading with the English, who have two warehouses at the home of the Shawnees on the Ohio river. This officer adds that it will not be difficult to win over this tribe, as they give them the preference only because they are not urged to supply their needs from us, as they are by the English. He states that one part intends to withdraw to Detroit, and the other near to him. If Monseigneur considers these changes desirable I will give orders in accordance to Sieur de Vincennes. In addition, as the post of Ouabache is one of the more important ones of the Colony, since it is a barrier to obstruct the advance of the English, who always have commonly frequented these parts, he has given orders to M. D'Artaguiette to detach 30 men with two officers to garrison it.]
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