THE OHIO VALLEY-GREAT LAKES ETHNOHISTORY
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Letter to Maurepas
(New Orleans, March 28, 1742)
Bienville, Jean Baptiste le Moyne,
Sieur de in:
(AC, C13, Gen. Corr. Louisiana, vol. XXVII: 63-67)
and in Mississippi Provincial Archives,
vol. III, pp. 765-768.
p. 767.
. . . The last prisoners have reported to the Choctaws that by the loss of their horses, were urging our enemies every day to withdraw toward Carolina after the example (p. 66) of several of their families who had found a tranquil refuge there, and that the Chickasaws refused to surrender to these solicitations only because of their attachment to the splendid and fertile country in which they live. These same prisoners have reported that last autumn the Miamis had made an attack upon a rather numerous Chickasaw hunting party of which they had killed the men and carried off the women and that an Englishman who was in the party had been found in the number of the dead. . .
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