Note 77 — Chapter II · CHICAGO IN THE SEVENTEENTH CENTURY
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American State Papers, Indian Affairs, I, 562.
[78] Hutchins, Topographical Description of Virginia, Pennsylvania, Maryland, and North Carolina, 7.
[79] E.g., Hennepin, Nouvelle découverte d'un tres grand pays situé dans l'Amérique, Utrecht, 1697, I, (facing) I. This map was frequently copied by others in the years following its first appearance. Jean Baptiste Homann's map of North and South America (copy in Chicago Historical Society library), of unknown date, but probably about the year 1700; Bellin, Carte de l'Amérique septentrionale, 1755; Jean Roque's map of North America, 1754-61.
[80] See among others Mason, Chapters from Illinois History, 163-64; Hurlbut, Chicago Antiquities, 164, 171, 360-61, 592; Blanchard, Discovery and Conquests of the Northwest with the History of Chicago, I, 68 (this work will be cited henceforth as The Northwest and Chicago); Davidson and Stuvé, History of Illinois, 260. Many other works and historical articles speak more or less briefly of the supposed French fort at Chicago; see for example Andreas, History of Chicago, I, 79; Shea, "Chicago from 1673 to 1825," in Historical Magazine, V, 103.
[81] Mason, "Early Visitors to Chicago," 201-2.