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Some of them I learn are better pleased with | Some of them I learn are better pleased with | ||
the country West, than they expected to be; Ko-assee- | the country West, than they expected to be; Ko-assee- | ||
(now the first chief) was very well pleased with the Country you lately gave their Pottawotomee friends, | (now the first chief) was very well pleased with the Country you lately gave their Pottawotomee friends, within <u>Kansas</u>; and could they get Country <u>there</u>, [illegible]all the tribe not required by treaty to go can be Induced to Emigrate | ||
--We earnestly | --We earnestly desire to closer for Messr Dowling's contract in a manner satisfactory to the Hon. Indian department and to meet its approbation. | ||
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With much respect | With much respect | ||
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W.G. Ewing | W.G. Ewing | ||
NB. Messr Coquilard desires to start them | NB. Messr Coquilard desires to start them in | ||
time for the payment and | time for the payment and thus induce as many | ||
as possible to go. | as possible to go. | ||
Revision as of 12:12, 5 May 2021
The family of the 4 chiefs (Ko-assee-Mese-quiah, White Loon and Rivarree) in named to you in my last letters, and which Messrs Hamilton + Benoist refers to) are now very small- and we will do all in our power to persuade them to go: these chiefs returned with Lafontaine.
Some of them I learn are better pleased with the country West, than they expected to be; Ko-assee- (now the first chief) was very well pleased with the Country you lately gave their Pottawotomee friends, within Kansas; and could they get Country there, [illegible]all the tribe not required by treaty to go can be Induced to Emigrate
--We earnestly desire to closer for Messr Dowling's contract in a manner satisfactory to the Hon. Indian department and to meet its approbation. - With much respect your obt & humble S=ert W.G. Ewing
NB. Messr Coquilard desires to start them in time for the payment and thus induce as many as possible to go.