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Bigot to Maurepas

(October 19, 1748)


Bigot in: Archives Nationales, Ministere des
Colonies, C11A 92:108 and in Illinois
Historical Collections,
French
Series, vol. III, p.75.

p. 75.

(page 75)

Monseigneur:

M. Douville, formerly commandant of the Miamis, has presented me a memoir of the possessions which he had left at the fort where he commanded, and which the Miamis pillaged during his absence; he had by order of the general, gone to escort the Indians of the neighborhood to Montreal. . . .



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