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Conditions in the Upper Country
(October 12, 1731)
Beauharnois and Hocquart in extracts from their
yearly official report to the French Minister
dated 10/12/1731 in: Wisconsin
Historical Collections, XVII,
pp. 142-147.
(page 146) . . . The Sieurs de Beauharnois
and hocquart will, moreover, act in concert, as much as the dis- (page
147) tance will permit, with the Sieurs Perrier1
and Salmon in everything that may procure the mutual advantage of both
Colonies. The former have already begun to place themselves in communication
with the latter, and the Sieur De Beauharnois has accordingly written to the
Sieur De Vincennes, who commands among the Wiatanons, and has recommended him
to devote all his attention to frustrating the attempts that the English might
make to prevent communication between that Province and Canada, and to prepare
those Savages to second Monsieur Perrier in case he should take any action
against the Chicachas, whom he points out to the Sieur De Beauharnois as being
the instigators of the attack by the Nachez upon the French of the Mississipi.
The Wiatanons are in a better position to harass The Chicachas and to give the
Sieur Poirier The aid that he asks in this quarter in case his Majesty should
order Him to punish that nation.2
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1 Perier was governor of Louisiana from 1726-33. He was an officer of the marine, and knight of the order of St. Louis. When he was relieved of the governorship by Bienville, he returned to France, being promoted to a lieutenant-generalship. Later, he served in a campaign in St. Domingo.-ED.
2 On the question of the Illinois country, and whether it should be joined to Canada or Louisiana, on a copy prepared for the use of the government (Canada, Coressp. gn., vol. 58, c. 11, fol. 228), is endorsed: "Await the reply of Messrs. Perrier and Salmon." This proved convincing enough to retain the Illinois under the Louisiana government.- ED.
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