For a short time after the principal Indian agency had been removed, a sub-agency was maintained at Fort Wayne with Samuel Lewis and Abel C. Pepper in charge. When, on December 30, 1829, Pepper reported that the public buildings were in such a state of decay that a hundred dollars would be needed to repair them, the government officials determined to discontinue even the sub-agency.[9] Thus early in 1830, Congress authorized the sale of the public lands yet retained by the government at Fort Wayne. This act sounded the death-knell of the old fort, which was purchased by a land company from New Haven, Connecticut. The other twenty acres were purchased by the county. [1]_John Tipton Papers_, I, _IHC_, XXIV, ed. Nellie Robertson and Dorothy Riker, p. 13. [2]By the late 1820’s, a distinction must be made between the Indian trade and the fur trade. The latter was still valuable but an increasing number of furs were being trapped by whites, as the Indians of the area were becoming less industrious. [3]C. Poinsatte, _Fort Wayne During the Canal Era_, p. 15. [4]_John Tipton Papers_, I, _IHC_, XXIV, ed. Nellie Robertson and Dorothy Riker, pp. 651-2. [5]_John Tipton Papers_, II, _IHC_, XXV, 18. [6]_John Tipton Papers_, I, _IHC_, XXIV, 527. [7]_Ibid._, pp. 631-3. [8]_John Tipton Papers_, I, _IHC_, XXIV, 662-3. [9]_John Tipton Papers_, II, _IHC_, XXV, 233. BIBLIOGRAPHY UNPUBLISHED PAPERS AND MANUSCRIPTS _Allen County-Fort Wayne Historical Society Archives_ _Allen County Cemetery Inscriptions._ Ms compiled by the Mary Penrose Chapter, Daughters of the American Revolution. Allen County Records and Archives, Fort Wayne, Indiana Allen County Deed Books, A-J. Allen County Commissioners’ Records, 1824-1828. Allen County Court Records, 1824-1840. Allen County Treasurers’ Reports, 1824-1830. _Archives de la Province Quebec_, Quebec Vaudreuil Papers. _Archives des Colonies_, Paris Series B, C. British Museum, London Haldimand Papers, Department of Manuscripts LaBalme’s Papers, Department of Manuscripts Burton Historical Collection, Detroit, Michigan Gladwyn Papers Hamtramck Papers McArthur Papers Whistler Papers Wilkinson Records. Photostats of the General Orders of General James Wilkinson, 1797-1808 from the War Department Archives, Old Record Division, Adjutant General’s Office, Washington. Chicago Historical Society Library American Fur Company Letter Books, I and II. Johnson, William. _Notes on a Tour from Fort Wayne to Chicago, 1809._ Ms Kingsbury Papers Miscellaneous Manuscripts and Letters, 1809-1812. Fort Wayne-Allen County Public Library Indiana Historical Collection: Clipping file, this includes a number of miscellaneous clippings from various sources pertaining to the history of Fort Wayne.