[8] Col. Francis Vigo was a Sardinian, who came to Louisiana in the Spanish army. Settling at St. Louis as a trader, he embraced the cause of American independence, rendering substantial aid in many ways to George Rogers Clark, in the latter’s Illinois campaigns. Vigo took the oath of allegiance to the United States, and later settled at Vincennes, where he died in poverty in 1836. His just claims upon the government were not settled until thirty years after his death.--ED. [9] A Spanish document of this period complains of Audrain as having misappropriated funds for his contracts, also charges him with being a radical republican, receiving all the patriots at his house, where dinners were given and toasts drunk to the downfall of monarchy. See American Historical Association _Report_, 1896, p. 1049. The commandant at St. Louis was Captain Don Zenon Trudeau, who held the office from 1792-99.--ED. [10] This Frenchman was known in Pittsburg as J. B. C. Lucas, and was appointed associate judge of Allegheny County in 1800. His Democratic principles were so strong that he brought about the impeachment of his colleague, Judge Addison, a well-known Federalist.--ED. [11] The writer here uses the term “Fort Pitt” as the name of the town; the brick fortification which was being demolished was the one known by that name, built by Stanwix in 1759-61. It stood between the rivers, below Third, West, and part of Liberty streets. A redoubt, built in 1764 as a part of these works, is still standing, and has been restored by the Pittsburg chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution, whom it serves as a museum. See _Frontier Forts of Western Pennsylvania_ (Harrisburg, 1896), ii, pp. 99-159.--ED. [12] Fort Fayette, a stockade erected in 1792 for protection against the Indians. It stood about a quarter of a mile above Fort Pitt, on the present Penn Street, at the crossing of Garrison Avenue.--ED. [13] _E. atropurpureus_, Jacq.--C. S. S. [14] This is probably his _Sicyos lobata_ (_Echinocystis lobata_ of Torr. and Gray) which, according to the _Flora_, was detected by Michaux “in _occidentalibus Pensylvaniae, juxta fluvium Ohio_.” The “_corolla 5 partita_” is retained by Richard in his description.--C. S. S.