Note 669 — Chapter XII · THE NEW FORT DEARBORN

Kinzie and all his family passed through the massacre unscathed. Thomas Forsyth came to Chicago the day after the massacre and remained with the Kinzies several days (supra, note 632).

[670] Supra, note 613. Mrs. Kinzie gives the name as Du Pin (Wau Bun, 190). Her story of his rescue of Mrs. Lee and her baby from captivity and threatened matrimony at the hands of Black Partridge has already been told (p. 255).

[671] For a list of the goods to be sent from Mackinac to Chicago for Dickson at the opening of navigation in the spring of 1813 see Michigan Pioneer Collections, XV, 224.

[672] On Crafts see Hurlbut, Chicago Antiquities, passim; Andreas, History of Chicago, Vol. I, passim. It is usually said that he was in the employ of Mack and Conant of Detroit, but Hurlbut suggests (Chicago Antiquities, 409) that Abraham Edwards was his employer.