The Documentary History of the State of New York, Vol. I — Passage 12
[E.B. O'Callaghan (1849)] River St. Joseph, south of Lake Michigan. The Potte8atamies, who call themselves the Governor's eldest sons, compose the village of St. Joseph, to the number of one hundred warriors, ------100 The principal families have for device the Golden Carp, the Frog, the Crab, the Tortoise. 6565 THE IROQUOIS AND OTHER INDIAN TRIBES. 21 6565 There are in the village about ten Miamis who bear in their arms, a Crane, -10 Eight Illinois Kaskakias are also included whose device is a feather of an arrow, — ^^p^-sEs— notched; ( x ) or two arrows supported one against the other in saltier (like a St. Andrew's cross. These are the nations best known to us as well along the great river of the Outawas as north and south of Lakes Superior and Michigan. I propose now proceeding again from Montreal by way of the Lakes to Missilimakinak. From Montreal on the Lake route, I spoke of Sault St. Louis, on the first sheet.