The Character and Influence of the Indian Trade in Wisconsin

by Frederick Jackson Turner

[181] American State Papers, Foreign Relations, I., 190.

[182] Ibid. 487.

[183] As early as 1794 the company had established a stockaded fort at Sandy lake. After Jay's treaty conceding freedom of entry, the company dotted this region with posts and raised the British flag over them. In 1805 the center of trade was changed from Grand Portage to Fort William Henry, on the Canada side. Neill, Minnesota, 239 (4th edn.). Bancroft, Northwest Coast, I., 560. Vide ante, p. 20, and post, p. 55.

[184] Amer. State Papers, For. Rels., I., p. 509.

[185] Treaties and Conventions, etc., 1776-1887, p. 380.

[186] Lodge, Hamilton's Works, IV., 514.

[187] Michigan Pioneer Colls., XV., 8; cf. 10, 12, 23 and XVI., 67.

[188] Wis. Fur Trade MSS., 1814 (State Hist. Soc.).

[189] Wis. Hist. Colls., XL, 260. Mich. Pioneer Colls., XVI., 103-104.

[190] Wis. Hist. Colls., XL, 255. Cf. Mich. Pioneer Colls., XVI., 67. Rolette, one of the Prairie du Chien traders, was tried by the British for treason to Great Britain.