[87]Dorchester to Grenville, May 31, 1790, Public Records Office, (Colonial Series) CO-42 73.
[88]Leonard Helderman, “Danger on the Wabash, Vincennes letters of 1786-87” Indiana Magazine of History, XXXIV, 459.
[89]Logan Esarey, op. cit., I, 102.
[90]George Sharp to Paul Camelin, June 23, 1786, “Letters from Eighteenth Century Indiana Merchants” (the Lasselle Papers) ed. C.B. Coleman and published in the Indiana Magazine of History, V, 145-146.
[91]George Leith to Gray, Apr. 3, 1786, loc. cit., V, 144-145.
[92]John MacPherson to Gray, March, 1785, loc. cit., V, 142-143.
[93]Ironside to Gray, Apr. 15, 1787, loc. cit., V, 151-152.
[94]Ironside to Gray, Mar. 15, 1787, loc. cit., V, 150.
[95]Ironside to Gray, Feb. 16, 1787, loc. cit., V, 149. George Ironside was a leading trader in the Maumee valley. He was born in 1760 and died in 1830, at Amherstburg. For many years he was in the British Indian service. He was an M. A. of King’s College, Aberdeen and was known, even to the Americans, for his humanity and hospitality.
[96]A Narrative of Life on the Old Frontier, Henry Hay’s Journal from Detroit to the Mississippi River, edited by M. M. Quaife, p. 224.