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List of supplies furnished by me,
Michelin Gamelin, at the post of the
Ouiatanon. . . May 10, 1747.
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List of supplies furnished by me,
Michelin Gamelin, at the post of the
Ouiatanon. . . May 10, 1747.
p. 195-205.

Closed the present report without error and omission, amounting to the sum of six thousand five hundred
twenty-five livres, fifteen sols, at the Ouiatanon, May 10, 1747. Signed, MICHEL GAMELIN.

We, commandant for the king at the post of the Ouiatanon, certify that the Sieur Gamelin furnished the articles mentioned
in the present report for the service of the king, which will be paid him at the royal treasury of the marine at Quebec
in the present year. Done at said post of the Ouiatanon, May 10, 1747. Signed, LA PÉRADE fils. Noted, signed,
LA GALISSONIERE.⁶⁶

Closed and adjusted the expense mentioned in the present list at the sum of six thousand two hundred forty-five livres,
ten sols. Signed, BIGOT.⁶⁷

No. 35.⁶⁸
100£

We, commandant for the king at the Post of the Ouiatanon, certify that the Sieur Fourtre furnished a cow for the service of the king for the sum of one hundred livres, which will be paid him at the treasury of Quebec. Done at the Ouiatanon, the fifth of July, seventeen hundred forty-seven. Signed, LA PÉRADE fils. Noted, signed LA GALISSONIERE. Closed the expense mentioned in the present certificate at the sum of one hundred livres. Signed, BIGOT

No. 36.⁶⁹
30£

We, commandant for the king at the Ouiatanon, certify that the sum of thirty livres is due
Julian Des Rivières

⁶⁶Roland-Michel Barrin, Comte and later Marquis de la Galissonière (1693-1756), governor of New France, 1747-49. Illinois Historical Collections, XXVII, xiv.

⁶⁷ François Bigot, notorious intendant of New France from 1748 until the surrender in 1760.

⁶⁸C11A118:145.

⁶⁹C11A117:117.

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No. 56.Extract of news in Canada, 1756¹⁰⁴

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By letters of April 29 from M. de Bellaitre from the Ohio River we learned that after he penetrated the country to a distance of 150 leagues below Fort Duquesne with twenty Frenchmen, 150 Miami, Ouiatanon, and some Shawnee to serve him as guides, they fell on Carolina, where they traveled about sixty leagues among abandoned habitations. At the end of that time they fell upon a village of from thirty to forty houses, which they took and burned. To them was joined a little fort which was called upon to surrender; refusing to do so, it was carried by assault and the garrison was put to the sword. As many were killed as taken prisoner, about three hundred persons. All the assembled cattle were killed; 120 horses which they found were used to carry the considerable booty which the savages made, and on the way back they set fire to all the habitations which they had left.

M. de Bellaistre was wounded in an arm and lightly in the shoulder; we lost five men, and have five or six wounded.

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No. 57. Memoir¹⁰⁵

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The Ouiatanon, a fort of upright poles, situated on the right bank of the Wabash or St. Jerome. This post is leased for
1200£ to the commandant. The savages which trade there are the Ouiatanon, the Kickapoo, the Mascouten, and the tribes

¹⁰⁴C11A101:358-358v.

¹⁰⁵C11E13:144. An incomplete, undated memoir, written after the founding of Fort Duquesne but before 1758.

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of the Vermilion. They can furnish three hundred warriors. From this post and its dependencies are shipped from three hundred to four hundred packages.

Post Vincennes, a pretty village also situated on the Wabash, a dependency of New Orleans, whose governor sends a commandant there. It may have eighty habitants who till the soil and harvest wheat. The Piankashaw trade there; perhaps eighty packages are made there.

The Miami, fort of upright poles on the right bank of the river of this name. At this fort begins a portage of three leagues which leads to waters falling to the southwest; the post is leased to the commandant for 1200£.

The savages who come there to trade are the Miami and the Teppisoineaux. The former can furnish 150 warriors. In an ordinary year from 250 to 300 packages leave this post.

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No. 58. Lieut. Edward Jenkins to Col. Henry Bouquet, Detroit, November 4, 1761¹⁰⁶

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I shall set of to morrow for a Fort called Wawiachtas in the Map, but the people here call it Ouiatanon and in case you want any Indian curiosities that is to be got there if you'll only be good enough to let me know and you may depend upon getting them the first opportunity.

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No. 59. Capt. Donald Campbell to Col. Henry Bouquet, Detroit, August 26, 1762¹⁰⁷

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I have already mentioned to the General the necessity Lieut Jenkins was under of making presents to the Indians on our taking Possession of Ouiatanon . . . .

¹⁰⁶Michigan Pioneer and Historical Collections, XIX, 118.

¹⁰⁷Ibid.,XIX, 162.

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selected to carry the ratification of the peace treaty to France and enjoyed the sights and entertainment offered by Paris and London. On October 19, 1784, he married Sarah Jenkins, of Philadelphia, the Mrs. Harmar referred to frequently in the letters. Because Pennsylvania furnished the largest number of troops to the army of seven hundred called by the Congress in 1784 to protect the frontier, that state was permitted to name the commanding officer who would have the rank of lieutenant colonel. Harmar was selected. He was young, educated, well connected, had some independent means, and had had some experience both in military and civil affairs. He was breveted brigadier general in 1787. In many ways he fulfilled his assignment well. He organized his small force and divided it among strategically placed garrisons along the Ohio and its important tributaries. He furnished detachments to protect surveying parties and new settlements. He carried on despite a seemingly indifferent Congress, a totally inadequate force, and the aggravatingly bad service rendered by the army contractors. His career reached its climax in his unsuccessful expedition against the Miami in 1790. He was forced to supplement his Federal troops with militia from Virginia and Pennsylvania, and part of his failure may be attributed to their lack of discipline. His expedition forcibly demonstrated that fighting Indians in the wilderness demanded a special kind of strategy which he had failed to devise. He was removed as commander of the army on March 4, 1791. A board of inquiry in September declared his conduct had been above reproach and absolved him of any negligence. He resigned his commission on January 1, 1792.

John Francis Hamtramck was baptized at Quebec on August 16, 1756. His father was a native of Luxembourg who migrated to Canada. His mother was French Canadian. He joined the Revolutionary army, attaining the rank of brevet major in the New York line. In 1785 he was commissioned captain of a company raised in New York to join Harmar's command, and was elevated to the rank of major on October

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20, 1786. He proved a good officer and won the respect and obedience of his men despite his five-foot-five stature. He commanded companies ordered to drive out squatters at the Mingo Bottom near the present Steubenville in Ohio and to afford protection to Capt. Thomas Hutchins, geographer of the United States, who was surveying at the juncture of the western boundary of Pennsylvania and the Ohio River. Hamtramck oversaw the building of the first Fort Steuben at the
site of Steubenville. In May 1787, he joined Harmar at Fort Harmar and proceeded down the Ohio and up the Wabash to Vincennes. He was at Fort Knox at Vincennes for six years. His French Canadian background, his ability to speak French, and the fact that he was a Catholic, were a help to him in dealing with the French of the village. His march up the Wabash as a move to distract the Wabash tribes at the time of Harmar's expedition against the Miami villages in 1790 was only partially successful. His expedition probably diverted the Wabash and Indians from joining the Miami, but he did not meet any body of Indians in battle, and therefore was unable to inflict any serious defeat on them. Hamtramck participated in St. Clair's campaign in 1790. In 1793 he attained the rank of lieutenant colonel and was commander of the First Sub-legion under Anthony Wayne. He was relieved at Fort Knox by Capt. Thomas Pasteur in February, 1793, and went to Fort Washington at Cincinnati. When Wayne attacked the confederated tribes at Fallen Timbers in 1794, Hamtramck commanded the left wing of the army. He was placed in command of the fort constructed at the confluence of the St. Joseph and St. Marys rivers, called Fort Wayne. In 1796 he took command at Detroit when the British withdrew, and divided his time thereafter between Fort Wayne and Detroit. It was he who ordered the detachment to construct Fort Dearborn at the mouth of the Chicago River, and thus he may be entitled to be called the "founder of Chicago." He died, however, on April 11, 1803, before the detachment set out.