Military Roads of the Mississippi Basin

by Archer Butler Hulbert

[99] American State Papers, vol. iv (Indian Affairs, vol. i), p. 173.

[100] Historic Highways of America, vol. ix, ch. 2.

[101] American State Papers, vol. iv (Indian Affairs, vol. i), p. 245. St. Clair had ordered Butler to proceed in three parallel paths each ten feet in width.

[102] Everts’s Atlas of Butler County, Ohio, p. 23.

[103] History of Preble County, Ohio (1881), p. 19.

[104] St. Clair Papers, vol. ii, p. 252.

[105] St. Clair Papers, vol. ii, p. 247. This letter may have been written at Fort Hamilton.

[106] St. Clair’s Narrative, p. 32. It is difficult to harmonize St. Clair’s own words concerning the width of the roadway with those of the editor of The St. Clair Papers, vol. ii, p. 292, note.

[107] Historic Highways of America, vol. v, p. 144. Cf. Harmar’s order of march p. 96.

[108] St. Clair’s Narrative, p. 31.