Note 92 — Front matter

This enumeration as included in Schoolcraft’s Indian Tribes, has been variously assigned to different authorities. O’Callaghan supposes it to be by Joncaire, but Thwaites proves otherwise, as Joncaire was on the Ohio at the time and not at Mackinac. Schoolcraft relies on the note which he says was on the original manuscript, that the compilation was by Chauvignerie—i.e., Michel Maray, sieur de Chauvignerie, an interpreter employed at the post—and Thwaites comes to the final conclusion that it was done by Celeron, the Younger, commandant at Mackinac at this date, and particularly well acquainted with the Indian tribes. See Wis. Hist. Soc. Coll., Vol. XVII.