[89] Id., p. 171.
[90] Id., p. 172. This project was suggested by General St. Clair the year previous, but was not countenanced by the Government. American State Papers, vol. iv (Indian Affairs, vol. i), p. 100.
[91] Id., p. 172.
[92] American State Papers, vol. iv (Indian Affairs, vol. i), p. 192. Officers who had orders from Butler to march were, in some instances, delayed nearly a week before they received the necessary provisions with which to do so.—St. Clair’s Narrative of the Campaign against the Indians (1812), p. 228.
[93] Id., p. 193.
[94] St. Clair’s Narrative, p. 12.
[95] Id., p. 207.
[96] Cummingsville—“six miles from the fort [Washington], along what is now ‘Mad Anthony Street.’”—History of Hamilton County, (Cleveland, 1881), p. 78.
[97] Knox to Washington, October 1, 1791, American State Papers, vol. iv (Indian Affairs, vol. i), p. 244.
[98] The site of Fort Hamilton was in the present city of Hamilton, Ohio, and was described in 1875 as located on the ground reaching from Stable Street to the United Presbyterian Church, and stretching from the Miami River eastward to the site of the Universalist Church.