[204] U.S. Statutes at Large, III., 332. Cf. laws in 1802 and 1822.
[205] Wis. Hist. Colls., I., 103; Minn. Hist. Colls., V., 9. The Warren brothers, who came to Wisconsin in 1818, were descendants of the Pilgrims and related to Joseph Warren who fell at Bunker Hill; they came from Berkshire, Mass., and marrying the half-breed daughters of Michael Cadotte, of La Pointe, succeeded to his trade.
[206] See the objections of British traders, Mich. Pioneer Colls., XVI., 76 ff. The Northwest Company tried to induce the British government to construe the treaty so as to prevent the United States from erecting the forts, urging that a fort at Prairie du Chien would "deprive the Indians of their 'rights and privileges'", guaranteed by the treaty.
[207] Mass. Coll. Recs., I., 55: III., 424.
[208] Acts and Resolves of the Prov. of Mass. Bay, I., 172.
[209] Bigelow, Franklin's Works, II., 316, 221. A plan for public trading houses came before the British ministry while Franklin was in England, and was commented upon by him for their benefit.
[210] Hening, Statutes, VII., 116.
[211] Journals of Congress, 1775, pp. 162, 168, 247.
[212] Ibid., 1776, p. 41.
[213] Ford's Washington's Writings, X., 309.