Outpost in the Wilderness: Fort Wayne, 1706-1828Poinsatte, Charles R.
History
Outpost in the Wilderness: Fort Wayne, 1706-1828
Poinsatte, Charles R.
Fort Wayne (Ind.) -- History
[70]_Ibid._, p. 439-40. The following names are listed: Capuchin,
Baptiste Campau, Nicholas Perct, Pierre Barthe, Bergerson,
Berthelemy, Dorien, Francois Maisonville, Laurain.
[71]As it turned out the people of Vincennes suffered a great deal for
their friendship with the American cause.
[72]Charles Lasselle, _loc. cit._, p. 4.
[73]Wallace A. Brice, _History of Fort Wayne_, p. 102.
[74]Charles Lasselle, _loc. cit._, p. 4.
[75]DePeyster to Haldimand, Nov. 16, 1780, and Haldimand to DePeyster,
June 6, 1781, Haldimand Papers relating to Detroit, 1772-84, II,
British Museum. After his release from captivity by the Americans,
Colonel Hamilton accused Beaubien of treachery for not following
Hamilton’s orders during the campaign, cf. Hamilton’s account of the
ill fated expedition against Vincennes, Hamilton to Haldimand, July
6, 1781, Haldimand Papers, II, British Museum.
[76]Hamilton to Haldimand, Sept. 26, 1778. _Michigan Pioneer
Collections_, X, 449.
[77]Hamilton to Haldimand, July 6, 1781, Haldimand Papers, II, British
Museum.
[78]_Michigan Pioneer Collections_, XIX, 699. For LaBalme’s dramatic
speeches to the French, see the _Illinois Historical Collections_,
II, p. xci. For other information concerning LaBalme, see the
_Virginia State Papers_, I, p. 380. The complete papers of LaBalme
were forwarded to the war ministry in London and together with the
map carried by LaBalme at the time of his death are available in the
Haldimand Papers, II, 13, British Museum (London).
[79]“LaBalme Papers”, _Michigan Pioneer and Historical Collections_,
XIX, 578-8.
[80]“Haldimand Papers”, _Michigan Pioneer and Historical Collections_,
XIX, 582.
[81]Capt. A. Thompson to DePeyster, Mar. 14, 1781, _Michigan Pioneer and
Historical Collections_, XIX, 589-600.
[82]DePeyster to Haldimand, Apr. 22, 1782, Haldimand Papers, II, British
Museum.
[83]Wayne Steven, “The Northwest Fur Trade” _University of Illinois
Studies in Social Sciences_, XIV, p. 513.
[84]Milo Quaife, _op. cit._, p. 209.
[85]Major Smith to Dorchester, Oct. 16, 1790, Public Records Office,
(Colonial Series) CO-42 73, London.
[86]Dorchester to Grenville, October 17, 1790, Public Records Office,
(Colonial Series) CO-42 73.
[87]Dorchester to Grenville, May 31, 1790, Public Records Office,
(Colonial Series) CO-42 73.
[88]Leonard Helderman, “Danger on the Wabash, Vincennes letters of
1786-87” _Indiana Magazine of History_, XXXIV, 459.
[89]Logan Esarey, _op. cit._, I, 102.
[90]George Sharp to Paul Camelin, June 23, 1786, “Letters from
Eighteenth Century Indiana Merchants” (the Lasselle Papers) ed. C.B.
Coleman and published in the _Indiana Magazine of History_, V,
145-146.
[91]George Leith to Gray, Apr. 3, 1786, _loc. cit._, V, 144-145.
[92]John MacPherson to Gray, March, 1785, _loc. cit._, V, 142-143.
[93]Ironside to Gray, Apr. 15, 1787, _loc. cit._, V, 151-152.
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