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SPAIN IN THE) MISSISSIPPI VALLEY, 1785-1794
I desire for the Creek and Spanish nations long peace and happiness. I am your obedient and humble servant.
Diego Buboes
(This is a copy of the original translation by Don Robert Leslie)
Vegas (Rubric)
Delavillebeuvto to Carondelet September 14, 1794 520
A small medal chief called Clatonoche has just arrived after fighting the Kickapoos. He has told me that he passed by eleven American forts which were continuously repulsing the attacks of the northern Indians. He says that the Indians are killing many Americans and that the approaches of the forts are filled with dead corpses which infect the air. He stated that on his way back he entered one of these forts and the white men wanted to give him a present which he did not want to accept. He told them that he had come to wage war on his enemies and not to seek presents which the Spanish gave him whenever he went to see them. This sort of conduct pleased me so much that I made a present to him and also to his twenty-five warriors. I gave him four white blankets, twelve pairs of pants, fifteen pounds of powder, some knives, worm-screws, and combs. He is a determined sort of man who is likely to be useful to us.
As for the artillery equipment which you have ordered to be sent here, we lack the wherewithal to spike the guns in case we should have to, but I hope we will not have to. However, I think there ought to be some in all the posts. Winter will soon be on us. I think that the Talapoosas and the Alibamons are going to start their usual trouble because they have already stolen two horses belonging to Favre and I believe one of mine which cost me fifty piastres. I cannot locate it anywhere, so here I am without a horse. I shall be very much put out when I have to go into the nation.
There is nothing new in the nation up to now. All I am afraid of is the arrival of Payemingo with presents from the Americans. This will probably have a bad effect. I am told that the Americans intend to bring them down to the Ecores a Margot, and as the Indians of that nation almost always go hunting in that direction, they will surely go and fetch them there. They have already asked me several times whether the blankets which we were going to give them in addition to their presents had come or were on their way. I did not know what to answer although you had spoken to me
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about it in the city before I left. I did not say anything to them.
I do not know where they heard about it, but as Mr. Lanzos recently sent the blankets and the Limburg cloth which you gave me, and Mingopouscouche came back from Mobile in the same boat, he must have told it to all the Indians when he returned, with the result that they are annoying me. I keep telling them that they are intended as remuneration for the messengers, but they do not want to believe me and they say that I am deceiving them. This is about all the news for the time being.
The Americans are still telling the Choctaws that they are friends of ours and that was the reason why they settled at Fort Cherokee, but I am tempted to believe that we should distrust their friendship iwhich might become a burden to us. For my part x shall not be negligent and shall spy on their conduct, and I shall inform you immediately of everything which I may learn from that quarter. God have you in His holy keeping.
Juan Delavillebeuvre (Rubric)
Fort Confederation, September 14, 1794-M. le Baron de Carondelet, Governor General.
Villiehs to White
September 16, 1794 221
Sir: I have received the honor of your letter dated the 27th of August in reply to the one which I had written you through the chief of Cloaly. I know they are dissatisfied as are all those who are returning from Pensacola. The Indians of the village of Tukibatch6 say that you have mistreated them, and they have made some very harsh speeches concerning this matter. They have wished to revenge themselves on me to the point of saying that they wanted to kill me. All this did not prevent me from going to their village, where an assembly took place. I told them what I. had to say to them according to the latest orders of my chiefs. They were then satisfied with this message. After that letters from the United States were read to them concerning the peace which had been concluded and the demands that the Indians give back the Negroes and horses which they have taken. Unless they do that, the Americans will not withdraw from the settlements which they have made on the Oconee. It was also stated that the Americans desire to make peace with the Creeks, and the latter could have goods at a very low cost. All this caused a new revolution in the nation. Theso messages were not accepted by the majority of the( nation. Old
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