[511] Renville to Sibley, February 22, 1835.--_Sibley Papers, 1830-1840_. A story is told of a certain "Simple-hearted, honest fellow" named Sinclair. "One time he was sick, at Mendota, and Surgeon Emerson, at the fort, sent by some one, a box of pills, for him to take a dose from. N. W. Kittson called on him a little while after this, and found that Sinclair had not only swallowed all the pills, but was then chewing up the box!"--Williams's _A History of the City of Saint Paul_, p. 123. [512] _Minnesota Historical Collections_, Vol. II, pp. 127, 129. [513] Snelling to Taliaferro, October 19, 1824.--_Taliaferro Letters_, Vol. I, No. 50. [514] _Taliaferro's Diary_, July 13, 14, 1834; _Indian Office Files_, 1834, No. 239. [515] _Taliaferro's Diary_, July 21, 1834. [516] _Indian Office Files_, 1837, Nos. 448, 447, 445. [517] _The Auto-biography of Maj. Lawrence Taliaferro_ in the _Minnesota Historical Collections_, Vol. VI, p. 231. [518] _Executive Documents_, 3rd Session, 40th Congress, Vol. VII, Document No. 9, pp. 14, 15. [519] _Executive Documents_, 3rd Session, 40th Congress, Vol. VII, Document No. 9, pp. 16, 17. [520] _Executive Documents_, 3rd Session, 40th Congress, Vol. VII, Document No. 9, pp. 18, 23. [521] _Minnesota Historical Collections_, Vol. II, p. 136; Williams's _A History of the City of Saint Paul_, pp. 66, 67. [522] _Executive Documents_, 3rd Session, 40th Congress, Vol. VII, Document No. 9, pp. 23, 24. [523] _Executive Documents_, 3rd Session, 40th Congress, Vol. VII, Document No. 9, pp. 26, 27. [524] _The Spirit of Missions_, Vol. V, p. 335, November, 1840. A recent sketch of Fort Snelling states that there were "no white neighbors except traders, agents of fur companies, refugees from civilization and disreputable hangers-on."--Hammond's _Quaint and Historic Forts of North America_, p. 272. Many of the evicted settlers can not be classed among these. [525] This order is published in Williams's _A History of the City of Saint Paul_, p. 94. [526] For the expulsion of the settlers see Williams's _A History of the City of Saint Paul_, pp. 99, 100; also, Neill's _The History of Minnesota_ (Fourth Edition), p. 459. Williams (p. 100) says that in 1849 and 1852 memorials were presented to Congress by those who had been expelled, in which they stated that "the soldiery fell upon them without warning, treated them with unjustifiable rudeness, broke and destroyed furniture wantonly, insulted the women, and, in one or two instances, fired at and killed cattle." Father Galtier, who was there at the time, wrote: "Consequently a deputy marshall from Prairie du Chien was ordered to remove the houses. He went to work, assisted by some soldiers, and, one after another, unroofed the cottages, extending about five miles along the river. The settlers were forced to seek new homes." He makes no mention of personal violence.--_Acta et Dicta_, Vol. I, No. 1, p. 64. [527] Williams's _A History of the City of Saint Paul_, p. 111.