Note 111 — Evans’s Pedestrious Tour of Four Thousand Miles—1818 (continued 3)

This unimportant post was established (1765) and commanded by Patrick Sinclair, a British army officer, who also purchased a large tract of land along the river. Both fort and river were for a long time called Sinclair, and as late as 1807 are so given in an Indian treaty drawn up by Governor Hull. See State Papers, Indian Affairs, i, p. 747.—Ed.