INDEX.

Adair, Major, attacked by Indians, 611 Adams, his correspondence with Lord Carmarthen, 415 Addison, Judge, his charge on the whisky riots, 703

Akamsca or Arkansas, 53

Albany, Indians met at, 241

Alliance, the War of, 71

Alien law passed, 746

Alleghenies explored by Spottswood, 94

Allegheny College at Meadvillo founded, 922

Allouez, Claude, and associates, 60

Americans seek Indian alliances, 240

employ Indians in war, 244

Anastasius, Father, 67 Ancient Charters,                        451, 452, 453, 454

Ancient records of Vincennes, 88

Anderson, Colonel, surveyor, 418

Anthony, St., Falls of, named by Hennepin, 60

Arbuckle, Captain, at Point Pleasant, 251

Armistice negotiated at Versailles, 1783, 407 Armstrong, J no., commands forts on Susquehanna, 139

commands expedition, 139

attacks Kittanning, 139 Armstrong, General, made Secretary of War, 89S

Assumption, Fort, (Memphis,) army at, 79

Athens, University of, in Ohio, 759

Au Glaize, Grand Indian Couucil at, 606

Fort Defiance built at, 643

Aubry succeeds D'Abadie, 199

Audruin, Rev. K., Note, 82

Baggattaway, an Indian game, 168

Baker's, massacre at, by Daniel Groathouse, ' 218

Bank of United States in Ohio, 929

Banks in Illinois, 974

Banking In Ohio, 924 Barclay, Captain, meditates plundering at Erie, 901

Barlow, Joel, goes to Europe to sell land, 708

Battle of the Thames, 904

Beaujeu, M. de, commands La Salle's fleet, 64

Beaujeu, Captain, killed at Braddock's field, 134

Beletre yields Detroit, 163

Bollovuo, Iowa, 909

Benhain, Captain, his adventures, 306

Berlin, decree insued, and its consequences, 820

Bienville, sounds Mississippi, 73

marches aguiust Chickasaws, 78

died, (it is said,) of grlof, 199

Big-bottom settlements destroyed, 653

Big Door comes over to Americans, 273

Black Hawk, refuses to attend treaty of 1815, 921

his character, &c, 960

his account of treaty of 1804, 961

sues for peaco and makes treaty, 963

re-commences hostilities, 964

is defeated by Major Demint, 967

is taken prisoner, 968

Black Hawk war, commencement of, 961

Gen. Gaines' exped'n up Mississippi, 962

party under Major Stillman, 964

massacre at Ottawa, 966

Blannerhassett Island, Burr's plans respecting, 811

Block Houses, their manner of construction, 340 Carnahan's, Westmoreland Co., Pa., 332

Hannastown,        "            " 399

Or^s, on Allegheny river, 716

Le Bceuf, (Waterford,) 717

Presqu' Isle, (Erie.) 717 Gower,at mouth of Hocking, Ohio, 227

Bloody run, battle of, 170

Blue Licks, battle of, 393

Boone, Daniel, his birth place, education, &c, 212

explores Kentucky and taken prisoner, 213

conducts home surveyors, 224

assists Transylvania Company, 229

his second captivity, 295

at the battle of Blue Licks, 393

Boonesborough founded, 231

attacked by Indians and British, 298

Border war on western frontier, 1763, 174

Bowman, Major, commandant at Cahokia, 272

Boundaries to determine Indian lands West, 207

of U. S. according to treaty of Paris, 407

Bowman, Captain, Joseph, journal of, 283

capture of Vincennes, 292

Boono's Lick settlement, 915

Border Warriors, character of, 832

Bowman, Col. Jno., arrives in Kentucky, 253

relioves Logan's station, 256

meets Clark at Corn Island, 266

his expedition against Shawanese, 305

Bouquet, Colonel, with Forbes,                     . 147

biographical sketch of, 176

relioves Fort Pitt, 177

his expedition to Muskingum, 181

Braddock, General, his march and defeat, 128

Braddock's road, 147

Bradstreet, General, his capture of Ft. Frontenac, 147

his western expedition, 179