Outpost in the Wilderness: Fort Wayne, 1706-1828

by Charles R. Poinsatte

[50]Wells to Hamtramck, November 3, 1800, Hamtramck Papers, Burton Historical Collection.

[51]IHC, VII, Harrison’s Messages and Letters, ed. Logan Esarey, p. 80.

[52]IHC, VII, Harrison’s Messages and Letters, ed. Logan Esarey, p. 125.

[53]Ibid., p. 81.

[54]Ibid., pp. 148-9.

[55]IHC, VII, Harrison’s Messages and Letters, ed. Logan Esarey, p. 81.

[56]Calvin Young, Little Turtle, p. 175.

[57]cf. Gerard T. Hopkins, A Mission to the Indians from the Committee of Baltimore Yearly Meeting to Fort Wayne in 1804.

[58]IHC, VII, Harrison’s Messages and Letters, ed. Logan Esarey, p. 133.

[59]Francis Vigo was a Sardinian adventurer who came to America with a Spanish regiment. He was unstinting with his aid to George Rogers Clark before and after the capture of Vincennes by the Americans. Harrison considered Vigo as one of his most valuable assistants.