By letter of the Surveyor-General, August 10, 1815, we are informed that lands were selected in Southern Michigan, Northern Ohio, the military tract in Illinois and in Missouri, but by reason of Indian hostility the first two selections could not be surveyed that year.–Niles Reg., Vol. 9, p. 15.
[65]. Annals of the West, p. 797. In 1828 the President issued his proclamation opening this land, which had been previously surveyed, and the following year was occupied, and later sold.
[66]. In 1828 some few lingered, but by May all but Black Hawk’s band and Quash-qua-me remained.
[67]. The planting of the corn in 1829 by the squaws was done to feed those who had gone to the Iowa River and were there preparing new fields, which could not then be used.
[68]. Wakefield, Appendix, Note 1, pp. 107-116.
[69]. Catlin.
[70]. “My Own Times,” p. 328.
[71]. See page 170, post.
[72]. Forsythe’s letter of 1829, ante, was one of them.
[73]. See letter Col. Henry Gratiot, next following.