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Hutchins: A Comparison
of the Number of Fighting Men
(1764)
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Estimates of Captain Thomas Hutchins, 1764, In: "A Comparison of the Number of Fighting Men. In the Principal Northern and Western Tribes of Indians in the United States and Canada, as estimated at various Periods from 1736 to 1812," Schoolcraft, Information, Vol. III, pp. 553-558. |
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Estimates of Captain Thomas Hutchins, 1764 . . .
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Algonquins of Ottawa River |
300 |
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Canawahrunas [Iroquois] |
200 |
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Wyandots near Lake Erie |
300 |
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Nepissings of Ottawa River |
400 |
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Ottawas of Lake Superior and Lake Michigan |
900 |
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Sakies, S. of Green Bay |
400 |
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Mechecaukis, south of Green Bay [Fox] |
250 |
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Kickapoos of the Wabash River |
300 |
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Mascoutins, south of Green Bay |
500 |
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Ouisconsins of that river |
550 |
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Six Nations of New York |
1,550 |
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Miamis of the Lakes |
350 |
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Peanquichas, on the Wabash |
250 |
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Ouchtenons of the Wabash |
400 |
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Peorias |
800 |
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Kaskasquias of Illinois River |
600 |
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Delaware Loups of the Ohio |
600 |
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Shawanese of the Sioto |
500 |
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Mississaugues of Lake Huron and Lake Superior |
2,000 |
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Chippeways of Lake Superior and Lake Michigan |
5,000 |
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Puans of Green Bay |
700 |
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Folle Avoines of Green Bay |
350 |
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Powtawatamis, St. Joseph's and Detroit |
350 |
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Scioux (Fond Du Lac Superior, Scioux of the Woods) |
1,800 |
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Scioux (of the Prairies) |
2,500 |
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Explanatory Remarks.
. . . Captain Thomas Hutchins, who accompanied Colonel Henry Bouquet in his expedition to the towns on the Muskingam River, in Ohio, in October 1764, and who was afterwards Geographer or Surveyor-General of the United States.
. . . Captain Hutchins regards one warrior
as representing five persons; and this rule gives, for the tribes enumerated by
Chauvignerie, 82,015 souls. By the same rule the enumeration given by Hutchins
gives 367,900 Indian persons. But it is probable some abatement should be made
from his estimates, which , it is reasonable to suppose, correspond better with
the number of the whole people than their fighting-men.
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Note by Compilers of Miami Collection: [Chauvignerie's census is also given in Schoolcraft on the same pages as above; however, we have the census taken from the New York Colonial Documents and we did not therefore copy same out from Schoolcraft, DK]
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