1837 Plea For Assistance at Port Huron for Omejahwennong qua

'''Port Huron Sept. 1 1837'''

'''Sir,'''{BR}
'''I write you a few lines at the request of this Woman. She wants you to write to the Governor for her. Her son is gone to Mississippi, he had promised to leave her some provisions, but did not. She wants the Governor, to let her have some, very much, because she is starving. She begs of you to write to that effect if you please. This is the Black River chief’s wife, O-kee-tick, diseased; her name is Omejahwennong qua'''

'''Keyeagick her son'''

'''Col. Geo. McDougall{BR}
Keeper Light House{BR}
Fort Gratiot'''

'''Note on the above by H. R. Schoolcraft. The above was communicated.'''

'''Copy{BR}
Black River Sept. 25, 1837'''

'''To Our Father Schoolcraft'''

'''Dear Sir,'''

'''We the undersigned Chiefs of the Chippewa tribe, residing at this place, in council assembled, request that you will please to apply, to our great Father, the President of the United States, to authorize the person who now has the charge of Fort Gratiot, to issue some Pork & flour, for the support of ourselves, and women and children, until our annuities are sent to us, and deduct the same out of our annuities, as we are almost starving for want. The commanding officers at Fort Gratiot, before the troops evacuated Fort Gratiot, always gave us provisions in our great distress, but now we are very destitute. '''

'''May the Great Spirit have You in his Holy Keeping.
We are Your Children etc.'''

'''Nay kee zhich,  his mark{BR}
Pee twa was naw quot, his mark'''

'''Witness: 
Maunqwudaw or George Henry'''

<sub>'''Mackinac Agency{BR} 
Letters Received by the Office of Indian Affairs 1824-1881{BR}
National Archives Microfilm Publications M234 Roll 402 1828-1838'''</sub>

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