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SPAIN IN THE MISSISSIPPI VALLEY
bv the two rivers. Its batteries consist of pieces of twelve at lease?s and it has a garrison of five hundred men. There are in the arsenal^l two guns of twenty-four, which they say were brought some time agojj to be mounted on a galley which General Clark had built to fight j the savages, and which still exists, I do not know in what state. 1^ have been assured that it has never been used. The commander of* these parts is General Clark, who is now attending the Congress. l5 am assured that he is raising troops who are engaging themselves for-1 twenty-one years [sic] for the supposed purpose of silencing or evenj expelling the savages of the Ohio River and reinforcing the garrisons! of the last two places, and by this means assisting the settlements thaw they wish to make on this same river. It is a fact that the savages! have again lately committed some murders in this place. The goods! at Fort Pitt are cheaper than in the city, although they get the from Philadelphia, which is about one hundred and twenty leagues! from there, and from Detroit. I deem it unnecessary to tell you about Post Vincennes which is on the Wabash River, and from which you! receive news daily. I have already had the honor of stating to you! that, with the exception of Cumberland, I cannot say anything fola certain, since I was unable to go to these other places myself.
I enclose the map of the entire Ohio River on a large scale, and afl letter from Mr. Green which I have intercepted, as I have told you! above. I have the honor of being, with respect, Sir, your most humblej servant,
Chachere (Rubric) |
Natchez, 7th of Nove,
Favre to/Bottlignt] ember 8,1785107
I learned from Taskaopa in the presence of Nanoulimastabe thatj Monsieur Jorge, a trader in the village of Ousapalchito for Monsieu _
. Maxent, had told him that he has heard from Naquisabe, chief with a small English medal, that Mr. Fraisiere, trader at Yazoo in thej Large Part, had assured him and the English chief Frantimastab that the stores established in Mobile belonged to Sieur Tournebouljj He also said that all the English, who had formerly been in different villages of the nation, were going to come back and chasel out the French and Spaniards who were there. Mr. Fraisiere stati that he was a good Englishman who did not want to do as French and Spanish traders and steal their horses. He said he would take their pelts for two, three, or four times as muchg that this boat was sent ahead, and that the chiefs and party werej
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iollowing. He also asserted that the Spaniards did not know how i do anything and they were not men. I affirm that I have written xactly what I heard from the Indians.
At the Choctaw, November 8,1785.
Favre (Rubric]^
Bouuony to Mno''
November 13, 1785 108
Mt Dear Sir : Don Louis Chachere, whose mission had been to spy bpon the happenings along the Ohio River, arrived at this fort on be 5th of the present month. He left Cumberland hastily because of a letter he succeeded in getting which was written by Thomas Jreen to the principal men of the Cumberland denouncing the said achere as a suspicious person. Your Lordship will find enclosed Ehe letter he has written to me advising me of the observations Tiade on his trip, together with the original of Green?s letter, a aap of the Ohio River, and some newspapers from North Carolina, jrhich will enable Your Lordship to see the manner of thinking of hose people, and the disturbances that occur among them.
His quick return, as he says, has not permitted him to acquire Ignore ample information. He is definite in that Robertson has gone ?9 mark out settlements in the Ecores a Margot, seventy leagues gbove Arkansas, which are to be occupied, one part by the families gf Cumberland and the other by families of Kentucky. Chachere ates that the settlements of the Ohio and the rivers which flow nto it are already considerable and become more numerous every ay. From the provinces of the north of America many persons jire carried through Lakes Erie and Ontario as far as the post of Detroit. From Philadelphia and the provinces of the South many ople emigrate to the establishments of Fort Pitt, Holston, Kentucky, Cumberland, and other small places. In Cumberland they are awaiting about one hundred and fifty families. Chachere reports at there are no evidences that for the present any expedition whatever is being formed, but as their minds are already disposed toward they require little encouragement. The attached documents . make clear to Your Lordship how much credence may be given go these reports by combining them with the news which may come rom Philadelphia and other places.
May God preserve Your Lordship the many years which I desire.
Fort Panmtjre of Natchez, November 13, 1785.
lour most attentive servant and obedient subject kisses the hand Eof Your Lordship.
Fran00. Boulignt (Rubric).
Senor Don Estevan Mir6.