Letter of Alexis Coquillard and Samuel Edsall to William Medill?, n.d.: Sheet #3

Letter of Alexis Coquillard and Samuel Edsall to William Medill?, n.d.: Sheet #3

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to Miami in Indiana, when about to start with this party Avaline & some other traders [illeg] 17 of the number and on a trial before Judge Cole of Miami County they were discharged from our custody on account of it having been made to appear that they were Weas, this reduced the party to 61. which number was emigrated to and delivered to Sub Agent Vaughn on the 10^th of September 1847 as will appear from his receipt, Some few of the Indians removed having lands in this country have returned, and it is understood have petitioned Congress for the enactment of a law permitting them to remain in Indiana and receive their annuities there, this has no doubt given you an impression that we have no removed all that we were required to remove when the fact is we have removed all <u>once</u> and some part of them twice. The above is a brief & fair statement of the manner in which we performed the <u>removal</u> of the Miamies. Those emigrated in 1846 have been subsisted for the time & in the manner prescribed by the contract, those emigrated in 1847 are being so subsisted under contract between us and Mr. Clymer, all of which we respectfully submit and ask an early adjustment of the of our [sic] claims