[4]H. S. Knapp, _History of the Maumee Valley_, pp. 9-10; Justin Winsor, _Cartier to Frontenac_, p. 224; Elbert J. Benton, “The Wabash Trade Route in the Development of the Old Northwest” _John Hopkins University Studies in Historical and Political Science_, XXI, 12. [5]Pierre Margry, _Decouvertes des francais dans L’Amerique Septentrionale_ II, 98. [6]Justin Winsor, _Cartier to Frontenac_, p. 256. [7]Pierre Margry, _op. cit._, II, 296; see also, Beverley Bond, _Foundations of Ohio_, pp. 70-8. Bond holds that the Maumee-Wabash route was the original one intended to be used by LaSalle who then decided to establish his communication by means of the upper Ohio; due to the Iroquois, however, he fell back upon the Maumee-Wabash route as the best means of reaching the Mississippi, but was forced to abandon this also to the Iroquois. Later Cadillac was to adopt LaSalle’s Lake Erie-Maumee-Wabash route. [8]Logan Esarey, _History of Indiana_, p. 12. [9]Elbert J. Benton, _op. cit._, p. 17. [10]Otho Winger, _The Last of the Miamis_, p. 3. [11]Pierre Margry, _op cit._, V, 359-62. [12]Beverley Bond, _op. cit._, p. 76. [13]Cadillac Papers, _Michigan Pioneer and Historical Collection, XXXIII_, 338. [14]Charles Slocum, _History of the Maumee River Basin_, I, 86; H. S. Knapp, _op. cit._, p. 9; “Forts Miami and Fort Industry”, _Ohio Archaeological and Historical Society Publications_, XII, 120. [15]_New York Colonial Documents_, IX, p. 676. This French officer was the elder Vincennes, the uncle of Francois Margane, Sieur de Vincennes. The younger Vincennes was the founder of the town of Vincennes on the lower Wabash. [16]_Archives des Colonies_, c 11 117, 118, (Paris) Pierre Margry, _op. cit._, V, 178, 218, 225-8; 239-43; 256-8, 262-7; 271-3; 278; 280-283. [17]_New York Colonial Documents, Paris Documents_, IX, 891. [18]Archives de la Province Quebec, Vaudreuil to Council of Marine, Oct. 24, 1722. [19]_New York Colonial Documents_, IX, 894. [20]“Céloron Journal” _Wisconsin Historical Collections_, XVIII, 51. [21]Archives de la Province Quebec, de Vaudreuil to Council of Marine, Oct. 24, 1722. [22]_The Jesuits Relations_, ed. by Reuben G. Thwaites, LXIX, p. 189. [23]Archives de la Province Quebec, de Vaudreuil to Council of Marine, Oct. 24, 1722. [24]_Archives des Colonies_, c 11 117, 118. [25]_Letters of Governor Spotswood_, II, 296. [26]Norman Cadwell, _The French in the Mississippi Valley_, 1740-1750, p. 95. [27]_New York Colonial Documents, Paris Documents_, IX, 894. [28]_Wisconsin Historical Collections_, XVII, 211. Sieur Darnaud was in all likelihood Nicolas-Marie Renoud Davenne, born 1696, died 1743. [29]_Indiana Historical Society Publications_, VII, 72. This post was a new settlement of the English from Carolina apparently on the upper Ohio River. [30]_Ibid._, p. 72. [31]_Archives des Colonies_, C 11 117, 118.