[25]_Fort Wayne Garrison Orderly Books_, _IHC_, XV, ed. B. J. Griswold, pp. 173-4, 150, 251, 255, 281-6. [26]Francis Parkman, _The Conspiracy of Pontiac_, I, 260, 280. [27]These two roads later came to be called Columbia and Barr streets. For a long time Wayne’s Trace was known as the “Bloody Path” because of Harmar’s and St. Clair’s defeats along this route. [28]_IHC_, XV, _Fort Wayne Orderly Books_, ed. Griswold, pp. 201-2. [29]Wells to Hamtramck, Oct. 29, 1801, Hamtramck Papers, Burton Historical Library. [30]Although slavery was forbidden in the Indiana Territory by the Northwest Ordinance of 1787, government officials and army officers stationed at Fort Wayne occasionally kept one or two blacks as slaves. This practice existed at other posts and in the case of Fort Snelling, Minnesota led to the series of events behind the famous Dred Scott decision in 1857. [31]Wilkinson to Major James Bruff, June 18, 1797, _American State Papers, Miscellaneous Affairs_, Vol. I, p. 586. [32]General Orders, July 9, 1797, General Orders—General James Wilkinson, 1797-1808 War Department Archives, Old Records Division, Photostat in Burton Historical Collection. [33]Frances B. Heitman, _Historical Register and Dictionary of the United States Army, from its organization September 29, 1789 to March 2, 1903_, I, 557. [34]Gerard T. Hopkins, _A Mission to the Indians from the Committee of Baltimore Yearly Meeting to Fort Wayne in 1804_, p. 55. [35]Dearborn to Col. Kingsbury, July 9, 1803, and Dearborn to Burbeck July 20, 1803, Kingsbury Papers, Chicago Historical Society Library. [36]Pike to Kingsbury, June 29, 1803, Kingsbury Papers, Chicago Historical Society Library. [37]Gerard T. Hopkins, _op. cit._, p. 60. [38]_See below_, pp. [p 64-68.] [39]Comte de Volney, _op. cit._, p. 401. [40]Hamtramck to Wells; June 27, 1796, Hamtramck Papers, Burton Historical Collection. [41]Wells to Hamtramck, March 15, 1797, Hamtramck Papers, Burton Historical Collection. [42]Charlotte Reeve Conover, _Concerning the Forefathers, being a memoir ... of two pioneers, Colonel Robert Patterson and Colonel John Johnson_, p. 52. [43]_ASP, Indian Affairs_, II, 82-5. [44]_IHC, XV, Indian Agency Account Book_, ed. Bert Griswold, pp. 453-466. [45]Charlotte Reeve Conover, _op. cit._, p. 42; _ASP, Indian Affairs_, II, 84. [46]_IHC_, XV, _Fort Wayne Orderly Books_, ed. Bert Griswold, pp. 268-9. [47]_ASP, Indian Affairs_, I, 773. [48]_Ibid._, p. 791. [49]_IHC_, XV, _Indian Agency Account Book_, pp. 660, 650, 637, 618, 581. [50]Wells to Hamtramck, November 3, 1800, Hamtramck Papers, Burton Historical Collection. [51]_IHC_, VII, _Harrison’s Messages and Letters_, ed. Logan Esarey, p. 80. [52]_IHC_, VII, _Harrison’s Messages and Letters_, ed. Logan Esarey, p. 125. [53]_Ibid._, p. 81. [54]_Ibid._, pp. 148-9.