The Character and Influence of the Indian Trade in Wisconsin

by Frederick Jackson Turner

[71] Jes. Rels., 1670.

[72] French leagues.

[73] 1670, Foxes estimated at 400 warriors (Jes. Rels., 1670); 1667, Foxes, 1000 warriors (Jes. Rels., 1667); 1695, Foxes and Mascoutins, 1200 warriors (N.Y. Col. Docs., IX., 633); 1718, Sauks 100 or 120, Foxes 500 warriors (2 Penn. Archives, VI., 54); 1728, Foxes, 200 warriors (Margry, V.); 1762, Sauks and Foxes, 700 warriors (Gorrell, Wis. Hist. Colls., I., 32). This, it must be observed, was after the Fox wars.

[74] Jes. Rels., 1670; Butterfield's Discovery of the Northwest.

[75] In 1820 those in Wisconsin numbered about 600 hunters.

[76] On these Indians consult, besides authorities already cited, Shea's Discovery, etc. lx.; Jes. Rels.; Narr. and Crit. Hist. of Amer., IV., 168-170, 175; Radisson's Voyages; Margry, IV., 586-598.

[77] Jes. Rels., 1666-7.

[78] Jes. Rels., 1670.

[79] Histoire du Canada, 193-4 (edition of 1866).

[80] Dablon, Jesuit Relations, 1671.