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Memoir on English Encroachments
(November 2, 1747)
Raymond, Captain in: Wisconsin
Historical
Collections, XVII, pp. 474-477.
1747:MEMOIR ON ENGLISH ENCROACHMENTS
[Memoir of Raymond to the French Minister, dated Nov. 2, 1747. Source, same as preceding document, but vol. 89, fol. 225.]
. . .
I Beg You to observe, Monseigneur, that the cause of all the ills and
agitation of the upper country is due to the English who have been left in
peace at la Riviere Blanche; and that all that evil was fomented there.1 In my memorial I took the liberty of suggesting to
Your Grace Effective means for driving them Away from there without occasioning
any expenditure to the King either in troops or in money. I should have been
pleased to have succeeded. At present the trouble Has become too great, the
evil too Wide-spread, and The Savages have declared too openly In favor of the
English to allow of its being undertaken.
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1 The Miami had for many years intrigued with English traders, and permitted them the freedom of their towns; in 1725 English from Carolina had built two houses and some stores "on a little river [White] which flows into the Wabash."- N. Y. Colon. Docs., ix, p. 952. The French called various rivers Rivire Blanche; this is the one passed by Cloron, a tributary of the Ohio above the Great Miami- probably the Little Miami, although Dunn, Indiana (Boston, 1888), p. 65, note 1, identifies it as White Oak Creek, in Brown County, Ohio.- ED.
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