Letter : La Prairie des Mascoutins, [Ohio], to Colonel John Bradstreet, Detroit, [Mich.], 1764 Sept. 2.

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Letter : La Prairie des Mascoutins, [Ohio], to Colonel John Bradstreet, Detroit, [Mich.], 1764 Sept. 2.

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September 2, 1764, letter to Col. John Bradstreet which Capt. Thomas Morris, then at the "farthest village" of the Ottawas on the Maumee River, wrote for an Ottawa chief, Washenawets, who intended to meet with Bradstreet at Detroit.

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