Note 431 — Chapter VII · NINE YEARS OF GARRISON LIFE
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Barry Transcript, entry for July 26, 1807; Kingsbury Papers, Matthew Irwin to Kingsbury, April 29, 1810. That it was John Whistler, Jr., who was Kinzie's partner is apparent from the county records at Detroit cited by Hurlbut, Chicago Antiquities, 469.
[432] Barry Transcript, entry for August 21, 1809.
[433] Wilson, Chicago from 1803 to 1812. On leaving Fort Dearborn in 1810, Whistler presented Cooper a pistol and a copy of Shenstone's poems. The latter was given by Cooper to General James Grant Wilson, and he in turn presented it to the Chicago Historical Society. Cooper wrote to Kingsbury at the time of the quarrel that he was willing to sell his life to prove Whistler's innocence of the charges against him (Kingsbury Papers). The date and salutation of this letter have been cut off, but it was evidently written soon after May 26, 1810.
[434] Drennan Papers, Nicoll to Whistler and Cooper, November 1, 1809.