Footnotes
[1] History of the Indian Tribes of North America, by James Hall and J. L. McKinney, a valuable work, containing one hundred and twenty richly colored portraits of Indian chiefs.
[2] "This treaty," says Voltaire, "was the first made between those people (the Indians) and the Christians, that was not ratified with an oath, and that was never broken."
[3] Proud's History of Pennsylvania.
[6] I Vol. Trans. Amer. Antiquarian Society.
[7] The Shawanoes call the Mohicans their elder brother, and the Delawares their grandfather.
[10] Stephen Ruddell's manuscript account of the Shawanoes, in possession of the author.
[16] General Harrison considers the Shawanoes, Delawares and Miamis, as much superior to the other tribes of the west.
[18] Heckewelder's historical account of the Indians.
[20] Proud's History of Pennsylvania.
[21] Thatcher's Indian Biography.
[22] Official Report, xii. vol., Niles Register.
[24] Amer. State Papers, vol. 5, p. 529. Stone's Life of Brant, vol. 2, p.392.
[25] History of the Indian Tribes of N. America.
[27] Captain Rhea, by common consent, was suspended for incapacity, and lieutenant Ostrander was on the sick list.
[28] The Indian orthography of this name is Tecumthà, but the public have been so long under a different impression, that no attempt has been made in this work to restore the original reading.
[29] Stephen Ruddell's manuscript narrative.
[30] John Johnston and Anthony Shane.
[31] For this sketch of Piqua, the author is chiefly indebted to his venerable friend, Major James Galloway, of Xenia, Ohio.
[32] Stephen Ruddell's MS. account.
[34] A similar statement is made in regard to the first battle of the celebrated Red Jacket.
[36] Shane thinks both thighs were broken, Ruddell says but one.
[39] M'Donald, in his interesting "Biographical Sketches," of some of the western pioneers, says this "second line of tents" was on the lower bottom of the creek and not on the opposite side of it.
[40] The father of the late Major William Barr, for many years a citizen of Cincinnati.
[41] Or Big Fish, the name by which Stephen Ruddell, then fighting with Tecumseh, was called.
[42] John Barr, referred to in a preceding note.
[43] For the foregoing details of this little expedition, the author is indebted to captain James Ward, of Mason county, Kentucky, who commanded one of the detachments on this occasion.
[44] Anthony Shane. Stephen Ruddell.
[45] For this fact see general Harrison's Address on the 50th Anniversary of the first settlement of Ohio.
[47] James Galloway, of Xenia.
[50] In the remaining pages of this work this person will be called the Prophet, the name by which he is most generally known.
[51] Quoted from Dawson's Historical Narrative of the civil and military services of William Henry Harrison.
[53] See Report of Commissioners to governor Kirker, 22d Sept. 1807, published in the United States Gazette, for that year.
[54] John A. Fulton, formerly mayor of Chillicothe, communicated by general James T. Worthington.
[56] Governor Harrison's Correspondence with the War Department.
[58] Governor Harrison's letters to the War Department.
[59] General Harrison's official correspondence—Dawson's Historical Narrative.
[60] Mr. Otway Curry, in the Hesperian for May, 1838.
[61] Published in the Hesperian for July, 1838.
[62] Dawson's Historical Narrative.
[63] In Marshall's History of Kentucky, vol. 2. p. 482, there is a speech quoted as having been delivered by Tecumseh at this council. We are authorised, on the best authority, to say that it is a sheer fabrication. No such speech was delivered by him at the council.
[64] Dawson's Historical Narrative.
[65] M'Afee's History of the Late War.
[68] Book of the Indians, by S.G. Drake.
[69] James' Military Occurrences of the Late War.
[72] Major David Gwynne, now of Cincinnati.
[74] Brown's History of the Late War.
[76] The Chillicothe Fredonian.
[77] This letter is from Mr. Wm. G. Ewing, formerly of Piqua, O., and is addressed, under date of May 2d, 1818, to John H. James, Esq. now of Urbana.
[82] Commodore Barclay, who had lost an arm in some previous battle.
[84] Anthony Shane, and colonel Baubee of the British army.
[86] Captain James Davidson, of Kentucky.—See Cincinnati Republican.
[88] Military Occurrences of the Late War.
[89] "Military Occurrences of the Late War between Great Britain and the United States, by William James, 2 vols. London, 1818."
[90] See James Military Occurrences, and Anthony Shane's Narrative.
[91] Cincinnati Republican, 30th September, 1840
[92] See Cincinnati Republican, 30th September, 1840.
[93] Dr. Theobald's letter, dated 27th November, 1840, in possession of the author of this work.
[94] One of the aids of general Harrison, and inspector-general of the United States army, during the late war.
[95] Early on the 7th, general Harrison left the army under the command of governor Shelby, and returned to Detroit. His report of the battle, was dated on the 9th. The army did not reach Sandwich, opposite Detroit, until the 10th.
[97] Jefferson's Correspondence, vol. 10. p. 171.
[98] The United Service Journal—London.
[100] Recollections of John Johnston, and Anthony Shane.
[101] Major James Galloway, of Xenia, states, that on one occasion, while Tecumseh was quite young, he saw him intoxicated. This is the only aberration of the kind, which we have heard charged upon him.
[103] On the authority of colonel John Ruland.