[2]By the late 1820’s, a distinction must be made between the Indian trade and the fur trade. The latter was still valuable but an increasing number of furs were being trapped by whites, as the Indians of the area were becoming less industrious.
[3]C. Poinsatte, Fort Wayne During the Canal Era, p. 15.
[4]John Tipton Papers, I, IHC, XXIV, ed. Nellie Robertson and Dorothy Riker, pp. 651-2.
[5]John Tipton Papers, II, IHC, XXV, 18.
[6]John Tipton Papers, I, IHC, XXIV, 527.
[7]Ibid., pp. 631-3.
[8]John Tipton Papers, I, IHC, XXIV, 662-3.
[9]John Tipton Papers, II, IHC, XXV, 233.