[1516] Hamilton says: "The day before Capt. Helm, who commanded the party sent to take the convoy, arrived at Ouattanon, Mr. Dejean heard that we had fallen into the hands of the rebels; but he had not sufficient presence of mind to destroy the papers which, with everything else, was seized by the rebels. Besides the provision, clothing, and stores belonging to the king, all the private baggage of the officers fell into the possession of Col. Clark."
[1517] Dillon, p. 158.
[1518] On March 7th, "Capt. Williams and Lieut. Rogers, with twenty-five men, set off for the Falls of Ohio to conduct the following prisoners, viz.: Lieut.-Gov. Hamilton, Major Hays [Hay], Capt. La Mothe [La Mothe], Mons. Dejean, grand judge of Detroit, Lieut. Shiflin [Scheifflin], Doct. M'Beth [McBeath], Francis M'Ville [Maisonville], Mr. Bell Fenilb [Bellefeuille], with eighteen privates" (Bowman, p. 109). Hamilton does not give a list of his fellow-prisoners, but the above names, as he gives them elsewhere in his Report, are inserted in brackets. He says: "On the 8th of March we were put into a heavy oak boat, being 27 in number, with our provision of flour and pork at common ration, and 14 gallons of spirits for us and our guard, which consisted of 23 persons, including two officers. We had before us 360 miles of water carriage and 840 to march to our place of destination, Williamsburg, Va." (Mich. Pion. Col., p. 506). "On the 16th, most of the prisoners took the oath of neutrality, and got permission to set out for Detroit" (Ibid. 110). Gov. Hamilton and his associates were sent to Williamsburg, and by sentence of the executive council were placed in close imprisonment in irons, for their treatment of captives and for permitting and instigating the Indians to practise every species of cruelty and barbarism upon American citizens, without distinction of age, sex, or condition (see Journals of Congress, ii. 340; Jefferson's Writings, i. 226-237, 258, 267; Sparks's Washington, vi. 315, 407; Corresp. of the Rev., ii. 323; Hamilton's narrative from the Royal Gazette, July 15, 1780, in Mag. Amer. Hist., i. 186; Monette, i. 431; Farmer's Hist. of Detroit, p. 252). In October, 1780, Hamilton was sent to New York on parole, in order to procure the release of some American officers (Sparks MSS., no. lxvi.).
For details of the Vincennes expedition, see Clark's Campaign (1869), p. 62-87; Dillon's Indiana (1843), pp. 151-184; 2d edition, pp. 137-167; Butler's Kentucky, p. 79; Beckwith's Hist. Notes, pp. 250-259; Davidson's Illinois, p. 193; Brown's Illinois, p. 241; Perkins's Annals, p. 208; Withers's Border Warfare, p. 188; Monette, i. 427; Hall's Sketches of the West, ii., 117; Marshall's Washington, iii. 562; Mag. of West. Hist., by Mary Cone, ii. 133; Hist. Mag., i. 168, by John Reynolds; Judge Law's address (1839), in Va. Hist. Reg., vi. 61; Ninian W. Edwards's Hist. of Illinois (1778-1833). There is a map of the campaign in Blanchard's North-West.
[1519] The enactment is in Hening's Virginia Statutes, ix. 552, and in Legal Adviser (Chicago, 1886), vii. 284. Cf. "Virginia's Conquest—the Northwest Territory", by J. C. Wells, in the Mag. of Amer. Hist., Nov., 1886.
[1520] Clark's Campaign, p. 84. "I am glad to hear of Col. Todd's appointment", he wrote to Jefferson (i. 225).
[1521] His proclamation of June 15, 1779, is in Dillon, p. 168; Davidson's Illinois, p. 202.
[1522] See lists of the officials in Edward G. Mason's Col. John Todd's Record-Book (no. 12 Fergus's Historical Series, 1882), p. 54. Mr. Mason's paper is an interesting account of Col. Todd's administration, and of the state of the Illinois county at that time. Col. Todd was killed in battle with the Indians at Blue Licks, Ky., Aug. 18, 1782. See Col. Logan's account of the battle, Col. Va. State Papers, iii. 280, 300; Perkins's Annals, p. 270.
[1523] Butler's Kentucky, p. 108; Withers's Border Warfare, p. 197.
[1524] An autograph letter of Jefferson to Washington, Feb. 10, 1780, urging reinforcements for Clark, is in the Sparks MSS., xlix. vol. iii. Various intercepted letters of Clark, including one of Sept. 23, 1779, to Jefferson, about fortifying the mouth of the Ohio, are among the Carleton Papers, in the London Institution, and are copied in the Sparks MSS., xiii. On May 26, 1780, St. Louis had been attacked by the English with Indian allies (Mag. Western Hist., Feb., 1785, p. 271, by Oscar W. Collet). It was through Vigo that Clark established intimate relations with the Spanish lieutenant-governor De Leyba, and Clark is said to have offered assistance in the defence of that Spanish post.—Ed.