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Vaudreuil to Rouille
(September 22, 1749)
Vaudreuil in: Archives
Nationales, Ministere
des Colonies, C13A 33:79 and in Illinois
Historical Collections, (extract),
French
Series, vol. III, pp. 111-118.
The Shawnee up to now have not abandoned the neutrality which they have always observed. I could not see them last year at Mobile, but when I am about to go there, I propose to have them told to come to seek me that I may sound their true sentiments. I must represent to you that if they persist in wishing to get what they need of us, it will be indispensable to send (page 118) the limbourgs of English fashion which I have asked for them.
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Although we are at peace with the English, for the reasons which I have given you I have not thought it prudent to release at this point the English trader whom I indicated by my letter of May 8 last had been made prisoner by our Wabash Indians. I am having him embarked on the ship Le Parham, and I am giving order to Sieur Large to land him only in a French port whence he may go wherever he wishes.
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Your very humble and very obedient servant, |
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New Orleans, September 22, 1749
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