NOTES
[1] Almon's Remembrancer, 1779.
[2] First edition, Philadelphia, 1779, and second edition, Danvers, Massachusetts, 1780; also printed in Connecticut Gazette and Universal Intelligencer, February 2, 1780.
[3] Virginia State Papers, 1, 321.
[4] Dodge Genealogy, page 137. American Ancestry, 6, 192. The sketch in The Magazine of Western History, 4, 282, contains many errors.
[5] Wayne County Records, B. 9, 91.
[6] If this date is correct it would appear that Dodge was in Detroit before he was brought there as a captive.
[7] Manuscript, British Museum.
[8] For a history of the Montour family see Egle's Notes and Queries, 3rd series, 1, 118. John Montour was arrested and confined in Detroit in 1778. See Michigan Historical Society Collections, 9, 434.
[9] Michigan Historical Society Collections, 9, 512.
[10] Fergus Historical Series, number 31, page 62. See also number 33, pages 159, 182, 183, 209; also Calendar of Virginia State Papers, 1, 367.
[11] American State Papers, Public Lands, Volume 1, (Gales and Seaton), 106, 110. A letter from John Rice Jones on file in the Interior Department, dated January 18, 1800, states that Dodge and his wife were both dead.
[12] Letter from Henry L. Caldwell to Louise M. Dalton, Missouri Historical Society, dated December 4, 1906. Mr. Caldwell died April 11, 1907, a very old man. Miss Dalton was secretary of the Missouri Historical Society and died in June of the same year.
[13] A little information is obtained from the Ste. Genevieve records, now in possession of the Missouri Historical Society, and a letter of John Rice Jones now on file in the Interior Department at Washington. The Jones letter is dated January 18, 1800, and in it he says that John Dodge was married somewhere in Virginia and that both Dodge and his wife are dead. From the other records it appears that the wife's name was Ann.
[14] Wood was a Revolutionary soldier and officer of considerable importance, and was elected Governor of Virginia, serving from December 1, 1796, till December 1, 1799. He died July 16, 1813. American Archives, 4th Series, Volume 4, 110-115. See also same series, Volume 2, 1209, 1240. Wood's Journal is in The Revolution on the Upper Ohio, page 34. Old Westmoreland, 18. American Archives, 4th Series, Volume 3, 1542.