Note 300 — Chapter VI · THE FOUNDING OF FORT DEARBORN

This circumstance was related over seventy years later by the wife of Lieutenant William Whistler (Hurlbut, Chicago Antiquities, 25). The reason for such a proceeding is not apparent.

[301] Swearingen's Journal, Appendix I; his statements made in 1863 preserved in the Chicago Historical Society, Proceedings, 1856-64, 348; letter from Mackinac, September 6, 1803, printed in Relf's Philadelphia Gazette, November 19, 1803; letter of Dr. William Smith from Fort Dearborn, December 9, 1803, to James May of Detroit, MS in Detroit Public Library; story of the wife of Lieutenant Whistler in 1875, Hurlbut, Chicago Antiquities, 23-28.