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[1]. A bronze tablet has been placed to commemorate the encounter—since this paper was written—in John Street at the corner of William.
[2]. This has reference to a difficulty which seems to have existed in getting the New England troops, at this stage of the war, to realize the necessity for special cleanliness about their quarters.
[3]. Winooski is the modern spelling.
[4]. Wisconsin State Agricultural Society Transactions, i. p. 125.
[5]. “At every step they dig a round hole in which they sow nine or ten grains of maize which they have first carefully selected and soaked for some days in water.”—Carr, Indian Mounds of the Mississippi Valley, p. 15.
[6]. “In the fall of 1814 the late Col. Dickson was stopped here [Lake Winnebago] by the ice and compelled to remain during the Winter. * * * He cleared the land, now cultivated by the Indians.”—Journal of Mrs. James D. Doty, in Wis. Hist. Colls. x, p. 114.
[7]. Wis. Hist. Colls., x, p. 75.