[8]Logan Esarey, History of Indiana, p. 12.

[9]Elbert J. Benton, op. cit., p. 17.

[10]Otho Winger, The Last of the Miamis, p. 3.

[11]Pierre Margry, op cit., V, 359-62.

[12]Beverley Bond, op. cit., p. 76.

[13]Cadillac Papers, Michigan Pioneer and Historical Collection, XXXIII, 338.

[14]Charles Slocum, History of the Maumee River Basin, I, 86; H. S. Knapp, op. cit., p. 9; “Forts Miami and Fort Industry”, Ohio Archaeological and Historical Society Publications, XII, 120.

[15]New York Colonial Documents, IX, p. 676. This French officer was the elder Vincennes, the uncle of Francois Margane, Sieur de Vincennes. The younger Vincennes was the founder of the town of Vincennes on the lower Wabash.

[16]Archives des Colonies, c 11 117, 118, (Paris) Pierre Margry, op. cit., V, 178, 218, 225-8; 239-43; 256-8, 262-7; 271-3; 278; 280-283.

[17]New York Colonial Documents, Paris Documents, IX, 891.