USA > Minnesota > Houston County > History of Houston County, Including Explorers and Pioneers of Minnesota > Part 92
Note: The text from this book was generated using artificial intelligence so there may be some errors. The full pages can be found on Archive.org (link on the Part 1 page).
Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Part 4 | Part 5 | Part 6 | Part 7 | Part 8 | Part 9 | Part 10 | Part 11 | Part 12 | Part 13 | Part 14 | Part 15 | Part 16 | Part 17 | Part 18 | Part 19 | Part 20 | Part 21 | Part 22 | Part 23 | Part 24 | Part 25 | Part 26 | Part 27 | Part 28 | Part 29 | Part 30 | Part 31 | Part 32 | Part 33 | Part 34 | Part 35 | Part 36 | Part 37 | Part 38 | Part 39 | Part 40 | Part 41 | Part 42 | Part 43 | Part 44 | Part 45 | Part 46 | Part 47 | Part 48 | Part 49 | Part 50 | Part 51 | Part 52 | Part 53 | Part 54 | Part 55 | Part 56 | Part 57 | Part 58 | Part 59 | Part 60 | Part 61 | Part 62 | Part 63 | Part 64 | Part 65 | Part 66 | Part 67 | Part 68 | Part 69 | Part 70 | Part 71 | Part 72 | Part 73 | Part 74 | Part 75 | Part 76 | Part 77 | Part 78 | Part 79 | Part 80 | Part 81 | Part 82 | Part 83 | Part 84 | Part 85 | Part 86 | Part 87 | Part 88 | Part 89 | Part 90 | Part 91 | Part 92 | Part 93 | Part 94
MATHEW THOMPSON was born in Antrim county, Ireland, on the 14th of July, 1818. When he reached the age of thirteen years he was employed in a bleaching establishment, remaining until he came to America in 1844, arriving in New York on the 2d of March. He was engaged in the latter State, afterward in Canada, New Orleans, Ken- tucky, Missouri, and in the lead mines near Du- buque, Iowa, until 1858, when he came to Yucatan. He purchased land in section thirty, upon which he has since resided. The maiden name of his wife was Catharine Kelly, whom he married in 1863.
GILBERT THOMAS, one of the early settlers of this town, is a native of Hancock, Delaware county, New York, born on the 24th of June, 1821. Since the age of twelve years he has supported himself. On the 1st of September, 1842, he was married to Miss Aurelia Comstock. They came to Yucatan in the spring of 1856, Mr. Thomas buying his farm of J. Brown, in section twenty-eight, upon which he still lives, engaged in stock raising. Seven children have been born to this union; W. Aubert, Edna Delph ine, Stephen B., Kate, Harriet M., Frank, and Minnie.
CHARLES WILSEY was born in Great Bend, Sus- quehanna county, Pennsylvania, on the 4th of February, 1825. When seventeen years old he moved with his father to Broome county, New York. On the 26th of June, 1858, he was married
33
Digitized by Google
514
HISTORY OF HOUSTON COUNTY.
to Miss Harriet Comstock of the latter county. They came to Yucatan in 1861, purchased a farm in section thirty-three, and during the winter Mr. Wilsey hauled from La Crosse the lumber with which he built his house the following summer. In the spring of 1865, he enlisted in the First Minnesota Volunteer Infantry, serving five months. Since his residence in this place he has filled the office of Assessor for one term and is at present Postmaster, the office being located at his house. His children are Felter James, Cora E., and Wil- lie C.
JOSHUA WEBBER is a native of Missouri, born on the 31st of December, 1849. In 1867, he moved to Kansas, and the fall of the following year en- listed in the Ninteenth Kansas Cavalry, serving eight months with Gen. Sheridan in his expedi- ` tion against the Indians. In the spring of 1869, he moved to Missouri, and two years later, to this State, locating in Fillmore county where he re- mained five years. On the 17th of March, 1880, he was united in marriage with Miss Ida M. Knox of Sheldon. They came directly to Yucatan and
. purchased a farm upon which they have since re- sided. One child, Archie H., has been born to them.
CHAPTER LXVIII. CHRONOLOGY.
1659. Groselliers (Gro-zay-yay) and Radisson visit Minnesota.
1661. Menard, a Jesuit missionary, ascends the Mississippi river, according to Herrot, twelve years before Marquette saw this river.
1665. Allouez, a Jesuit, visited the Minnesota . shore of Lake Superior.
1680. Du Luth, in June, the first to travel in a canoe from Lake Superior, by way of the St. Croix river, to the Mississippi. Descending the Missis- sipi, he writes to Signelay, in 1683: "I proceeded in a canoe two days and two nights, and the next day at 10 o'clock in the morning," found Accault, Augelle, and Father Hennepin, with a hunting party of Sioux. He writes: "The want of respect which they showed the said Reverend Father pro- woked me, and this I showed them, telling them he was my brother, and I had him placed in my canoe to come with me into the villages of said Nadouecioux." In September, Du Luth and Hen-
nepin were at the falls of St. Anthony on their way to Mackinaw.
1683. Perrott and Le Suenr visited Lake Pepin. Perrott with twenty men builds a stockade at the base of a bluff, upon the east bank, just above the entrance of Lake Pepin.
1689. Perrott, at Green Bay, makes a formal record of taking possession of the Sioux country in the name of the King of France.
1693. Le Sueur at the extremity of Lake Su- perior.
1694. Le Sueur builds a post on a prairie island in the Mississippi, about nine miles below Hastings.
1695. Le Sueur brings the first Sioux chiefs who visited Canada.
1700. Le Sueur ascends the Minnesota river. Fort L'Huillier built on a tributary of Blue Earth river.
1702. Fort L'Huillier abandoned.
1727. Fort Beauharnois, in the fall of this year, erected in sight of Maiden's Rock, Lake Pepin, by La Perrier du Boucher.
1728. Verendrye stationed at Lake Nepigon. 1731. Verendrye's sons reach Rainy Lake. Fort St. Pierre erected at Rainy Lake.
1732. Fort St. Charles erected on the south-west corner of Lake of the Woods.
1734. Fort Maurepas established on Winnipeg river.
1736. Verendrye's son and others massacred by the Sioux on an isle in the Lake of the Woods.
1738. Fort La Reine on the Red River estab- lished.
1766. Jonathan Carver, on November 17th reaches the falls of St. Anthony.
1794. Sandy Lake occupied by the North-west Company.
1802. William Morrison trades at Leach Lake.
1804. William Morrison trades at Elk Lake, now Itasca.
1805. Lieutenant Z. M. Pike purchases the site since occupied by Fort Snelling.
1817. Earl of Selkirk passes through Minnesota for Lake Winnipeg. Major Stephen H. Long, U. S. A., visits Falls of St. Anthony.
1819. Colonel Leavenworth arrives on the 24th of August, with troops at Mendota.
1820. J. B. Faribault brings up to Mendota, horses for Colonal Leavenworth.
Laidlow, superintendent of farming for Earl
Digitized by Google
515
CHRONOLOGY.
Selkirk, passes from Pembina to Prairie du Chien to purchase seed wheat. Upon the 15th of April left Prairie du Chien with Mackinaw boats and ascended the Minnesota to Big Stone Lake, where the boats were placed on rollers and dragged & short distance to Lake Traverse, and on the 3d of June, reached Pembina.
On the 5th of May, Colonel Leavenworth estab- lished summer quarters at Camp Coldwater, Hen- nepin county.
In July, Governor Cass, of Michigan, visits the camp.
In August, Colonel Snelling succeeds Leaven- worth.
September 20th, corner stone laid under com- mand of Colonel Snelling.
First white marriage in Minnesota, Lieutenant Green to daughter of Captain Gooding.
First white child born in Minnesota, daughter of Colonel Snelling; died following year.
1821. Fort St. Anthony was sufficiently com- pleted to be occupied by troops.
Mill at St. Anthony Falls constructed for the use of garrison, under the supervision of Lieuten- ant McCabe.
1822. Colonel Dickson attempted to take a drove of cattle to Pembina.
1823. The first steamboat, the Virginia, on May 10th, arrived at the mouth of the Minnesota river.
Mill stones for grinding flour sent to St. Anthony Falls.
Beltrami, the Italian traveler, explores the northernmost source of the Mississippi.
1824. General Winfield Scott inspects Fort St. Anthony, and at his suggestion the War Depart- ment changed the name to Fort Snelling.
1825. April 5th, steamboat Rufus Putnam reaches the fort. May, steamboat Rufus Putnam arrives again and delivers freight at Land's End trading post on the Minnesota, about a mile above the fort.
1826. January 26th, first mail in five months received at the fort.
April 5th, snow storm with flashes of lightning. April 10th, thermometer four degrees above zero. April 21st, ice began to move in the river at the fort, and with twenty feet above low water mark.
May 2d, first steamboat of the season, the Law- rence, Captain Reeder, took a pleasure party to within three miles of the Falls of St. Anthony.
1827. Flat Mouth's party of Ojibways attacked
at Fort Snelling, and Sioux delivered by Colonel Snelling to be killed by Ojibways, and their bodies thrown over the bluff into the river.
General Gaines inspects Fort Snelling.
Troops of the Fifth Regiment relieved by those of the First.
1828. Colonel Snelling dies in Washington.
1829. Rev. Alvan Coe and J. D. Stevens, Pres- byterian missionaries, visit the Indians around Fort Snelling.
Major Taliaferro, Indian agent, establishes a farm for the benefit of the Indians at Lake Cal- houn, which he called Eatonville, after the secre- tary of war.
1830. August 14th, a sentinel at Fort Snelling, just before daylight, discovered ihe Indian coun- cil house on fire. Wa-pa-sha's son-in-law was the incendiary.
1832. May 12th, steamboat Versailles arrived at Fort Snelling.
June 16th, William Carr arrives from Missouri at Fort Snelling, with a drove of cattle and horses.
Henry R. Schooloraft explores the sources of the Mississippi.
1833. Rev. W. T. Boutwell establishes a mission among the Ojibways at Leech Lake.
E. F. Ely opens a mission-school for Ojibways at Aitkin's trading-post, Sandy Lake.
1834. May. Samuel W. and Gideon H. Pond arrive at Lake Calhoun as missionaries among the Sioux.
November. Henry H. Sibley arrives at Mendota as agent of Fur Company.
1835. May. Rev. T. S. Williamson and J. D. Stevens arrive as Sioux missionaries, with Alexan- der G. Huggins as lay-assistant.
June. Presbyterian Church at Fort Snelling or- ganized.
July 31st. A Red River train arrives at Fort Snelling with fifty or sixty head of cattle, and about twenty-five horses.
November. Colonel S. C. Stambaugh arrives; is sutler at Fort Snelling.
1836. May 6th, "Missouri Fulton," first steam- coat, arrives af Fort Snelling.
May 29th, "Frontier," Captain Harris, arrives. June 1st, "Palmyra" arrives.
July 2d, "Saint Peters" arrives with J. N. Nic- ollet as passenger.
July 30th, Sacs and Foxes kill twenty-four Winnebagoes an Root River.
Digitized by
516
HISTORY OF HOUSTON COUNTY.
September 7th, first Christian marriage celebra- ted at Lac-qui-Parle.
1837, Rev. Stephen R. Riggs and his wife join Lake Harriet Mission.
Rev. A. Brunson and David Ding establish Ka- posia Mission.
Commissioners Dodge and Smith at Fort Snelling make a treaty with the Chippewas to cede lands east of the Mississippi.
Franklin Steele and others make claims at falls of St. Croix and St. Anthony.
November 10th, steamboat "Rolla" arrives at Fort Snelling with the Sioux on their return from Washington.
December 12th, Jeremiah Russell and L. W. Stratton make the first claim at Marine, in the St. Croix valley.
1838. April, Hole-in-the-Day and party kill thirteen of the Lac qui Parle Sioux. Martin Mc- Leod, from Pembina, after twenty-eight days of exposure to snow, reaches Lake Traverse.
May 25, steamboat Burlington arrives at Fort Snelling with J. N. Nicollet and J. C. Fremont on a scientific expedition.
June 14th, Maryatt, the British novelist, Frank- lin Steele and others rode from the Fort to view Falls of St. Anthony.
July 15th, steamboat Palmyra arrives at Fort Snelling with an official notice of the ratification of treaty, Men arrive to develop the St. Croix valley.
August 2d, Hole-in-the-Day encamped with a party of Chippewas near Fort Snelling, and was attacked by Sioux from Mud Lake, and one killed and another wounded.
August 27th, steamboat Ariel arrives with com- missioners Pease and Ewing to examine half-breed claims.
September 30th, steamboat Ariel makes the first trip up the St. Croix river.
October 26th, steamboat Gypsy first to arrive at Falls of St. Croix with annuity goods for Chippe- pewas. In passing through Lake St. Croix it grounded near the town site laid out by S. C. Stam- baugh, and called Stambaughville.
1839. April 14th, first steamboat at Fort Snell- ing, the Ariel, Captain Lyons.
Henry M. Rice arrives at Fort Snelling. .
May 12th, steamboat Fayette arrives on the St. Croix, having been at Fort Snelling, with mem- bers of Marine Mill Company.
May 21st, the Glancus, Captain Atchinson, ar- rives at Fort Snelling.
June 1st, the Pennsylvania, Captain Stone, ar- rives at Fort Snelling.
June 12th, at Lake Harriet mission, Rev. D. Gavin, Swiss missionary among the Sioux at Red Wing, was married to Cordelia Stevens, teacher at Lake Harriet mission.
June 25th, steamboat Knickerbocker arrived at Fort Snelling.
June 27th, a train of Red River carts, under Mr. Sinclair, with emigrants, who encamped near the fort.
July 2d, Chippewa killed a Sioux of Lake Cal- houn band.
July 3d, Sioux attack Chippewas in ravine above Stillwater.
1840. April; Rev. Lucien Galtier, of the Roman Catholic church, arrives at Mendota.
June 14th, Thomas Simpson, Arctic explorer, shoots himself near Turtle river, under aberration of mind.
March 20th, Mississippi opened.
April 6th, steamboat Otter, Captain Harris, arrived. Kaboka, an old chief of Lake Calhoun band, killed by Chippewas.
August, Mission church of unburnt bricks built at Lac qui Parle and surmounted with the first church bell.
November 1st, Father Galtier completes the log chapel of St. Paul, which gave the name to the capital of Minnesota. Rev. Augustin Ravoux arrives.
1842. July, the Chippewas attack the Kaposia Sioux.
1843. Stillwater laid out. Ayer, Spencer, and Ely establish a Chippewa mission at Red Lake.
June 20th, Rev. S. R. Riggs and R. Hopkins establish Indian missions at Travers des Sioux.
July 15th, Thomas Longley, brother-in-law of Rev. S. R. Riggs, drowned at Traverse des Sioux mission station.
1844. August, Captain Allen with fifty dragoons marches from Fort Des Moines through south- western Minnesota, and on the 10th of September reaches the Big Sioux River. Sisseton war party kill an American named Watson, driving cattle to Fort Snelling.
1845. June 25th, Captain Sumner reaches Trav- ers des Sioux, and proceeding northward arrested three of the murderers of Watson.
Digitized by Google
517
CHRONOLOGY
1846. Dr. Williamson, Sioux missionary, moves from Lac qui Parle to Kaposia. March 31st, steamboat Lynx, Captain Atchison arrives at Fort Snelling. Rev. S. W. Pond establishes Indian mission at Shakopee.
1847. St. Croix county, Wisconsin, organized, Stillwater the county seat. Harriet E. Bishop es- tablishes a school at St. Paul. Saw-mills begun at St. Anthony Falls. First frame house in the Minnesota valley, above Fort Snelling, erected by Mr. Pond. Lumber brought from Point Douglas,
August, Commissioners Verplank and Henry M. Rice make treaties with the Chippewas at Fond du Lac and Leech Lake. The town of St. Paul sur- veyed, platted, and recorded in the St. Croix, county register of deed's office.
1848. Henry H. Sibley, delegate to Congress from Wisconsin territory.
May 29th, Wisconsin admitted, leaving Minne- sota ( with its present boundaries) without a gov- ernment.
August 26th, Stillwater convention held to take measures for a separate territorial organization.
October 30th, H. H. Sibley elected delegate to Congress.
1849. March. Act of Congress creating Min- nesota territory.
April 9th, "Highland Mary," Captain Atchison, arrives at St. Paul.
April 18th, James M. Goodhue arrives at St. Paul with the first newspaper press.
May 27th, Governor Alexander Ramsey arrives at Mendota.
June 1st, Governor Ramsey issues a proclama- tion declaring the territory duly organized.
.
July, first brick house in Minnesota erected at St. Paul by Rev. E. D. Neill,
August 1st, H. H. Sibley elected delegate to Congress for Minnesota.
First Protestant house of worship in white set- tlement, a Presbyterian chapel, completed at St. Paul.
September 3d, first Legislature convened.
December, first literary address at falls of St. Anthony.
June 11th, Indian council at Fort Snelling.
June 14th, steamer "Governor Ramsey" makes first trip above falls of St. Anthony.
June 26th, the "Anthony Wayne" reaches the falls of St. Anthony.
July 18th, steamboat "Anthony Wayne" ascends
the Minnesota to the vicinity of Traverse des Sioux.
July 25th, steamboat "Yankee" goes beyond Blue Earth river.
October, Fredrika Bremner, Swedish novelist, visits Minnesota.
November, the "Dakotah Friend," a monthly paper, appeared.
December, Colonel D. A. Robertson establishes the "Minnesota Democrat."
1851. May. "St. Anthony Express" newspaper began its career.
July, Rev. Robert Hopkins, Sioux missionary, drowned.
September 19th, the "Minnesotian," of St. Paul, edited by J. P. Owens, appeared.
November, Jerome Fuller, Chief Justice in place of Aaron Goodrich, arrives.
December, Smithsonian Institute publishes Da- kota Grammar and Lexicon.
February 14th, Dr. Rae, Arctic explorer, arrives at St. Paul with dog train.
May 14th, land slide at Stillwater.
August, James M. Goodhue, pioneer editor, dies.
1853. April 27th, Chippewas and Sioux fight in streets of St. Panl. Governor Willis A. Gorman succeeds Governor Ramsey.
October. Henry M. Rice elected delegate to Congress. The capitol building completed.
1855. January, first bridge over Mississippi completed at Falls of St. Anthony.
Church erected near Yellow Medicine; Indians contribute two-thirds of its cost.
October, H. M. Rice re-elected to Congress.
December 12th, James Stewart arrives in St. Paul, direct from Arctic regions, with relics of Sir John Franklin.
1856. Erection of the State University building begun.
1857. Congress passes an act authorizing peo- ple of Minnesota to vote for a constitution.
March. Inkpadutah slaughters settlers in south- west Minnesota.
March 5th. Land-grant by Congress for rail- ways.
H. H. Sibley first Governor under the State constitution.
1858. April 15th, people approve act of Legis- lature loaning the public credit for five millions of dollars to certain railway companies.
Digitized by Google .
518
HISTORY OF HOUSTON COUNTY.
May 11th. Minnesota becomes one of the United States of America.
November. Supreme Court of State orders Gov- ernor Sibley to issue railroad bonds.
December. Governor Sibley declares the bonds a failure.
June. Burbank & Company place the first steamboat on Red River of the North.
1860. March 23d, Ann Bilanski hung at St. Paul for the murder of her husband, the first white person hung in Minnesota.
August 9th, telegraph line completed to St. Paul.
August 20th, J. B. Faribault died.
1861. April 14th, Governor Ramsey calls upon the President in Washington and offers a regi- ment of volunteers.
June 21st, First Minnesota Begiment, Colonel W. A. Gorman, leaves for Washington.
June 28th, first railway in Minnesota completed from St. Paul to St. Anthony.
July 21st, First Minnesota in battle at Bull Run.
October 13th, Second Minnesota Infantry, Col- onel H. P. Van Cleve, leaves Fort Snelling.
November 16th, Third Minnesota Infantry, H. C. Lester, goes to seat of war.
1862. January 19th, Second Minnesota in bat- tle at Mill Spring, Kentucky.
April 6th, First Minnesota Battery, Captain Munch, at Pittsburg Landing.
April 21st, Second Minnesota Battery goes to seat of war.
April 21st, Fourth Minnesota Infantry Volun- teers, J. B. Sanborn, leaves Fort Snelling.
May 13th, Fifth Regiment Volunteers, Colonel Borgesrode, leaves for the seat of war.
May 28th, Second, Fourth, and Fifth, in battle near Corinth, Mississippi.
May 31st, First Minnesota in battle at Fair Oaks, Virginia.
June 29th, First Minnesota in battle at Savage Station.
June 30th, First Minnesota in battle near Wil- lis Church.
July 1st, First Minnesota in battle at Malvern Hill.
August, Sixth Regiment, Colonel Crooks, or- ganized.
August, Seventh Regiment, Colonel Miller, or- ganized.
August, Eighth Regiment, Colonel Thomas, or- ganized.
August, Ninth Regiment, Colonel Wilkin, or- ganized.
August 18th, Sioux attack whites at Lower Sioux Agency.
August 23d, battle of New Ulm.
August 25th, New Ulm evacuated.
December 26th, thirty-eight Sioux executed on the same Scaffold at Mankato.
May 14th, Fourth and Fifth Regiments in bat- tle near Jackson, Mississippi.
July 2d, First Minnesota Infantry in battle at Gettysburgh, Pennsylvania.
July 3d, Tah-o-yah-tay-doo-tah, or Little Crow, killed near Hutchinson.
September 19th, Second Minnesota Infantry en- gaged at Chickamauga, Tennessee.
November 23d, Second Minnesota Infantry en- gaged at Mission Ridge.
March 30th, Third Minnesota Infantry engaged at Fitzhugh's Woods.
June 6th, Fifth Minnesota Infantry engaged at Lake Chicot, Arkansas.
July 13th, Seventh, Ninth and Tenth, with por- tion of Fifth Minnesota Infantry, engaged at Tu- pelo, Mississippi.
July 14th, Colonel Alex. Wilkin, of the Ninth, killed.
October 15th, Fourth Regiment engaged near Altoona, Georgia.
December 7th, Eighth Regiment engaged near Murfreesboro, Tennessee.
Ffth, Seventh, Ninth, and Tenth Regiments at Nashville, Tennessee.
April 9th, Fifth, Sixth, Seventh, Ninth, and Tenth at the siege of Mobile.
November 10th, Shakpedan, Sioux chief, and Medicine Bottle executed at Fort Snelling.
January 1st, Minnesota State Reform School opened for inmates.
September 6th, outlaws from Missouri kill the cashier of the Northfield Bank.
May 2d, explosion in the Washburn and other flour mills at Minneapolis.
1880. November 15th, a portion of the Insane Asylum at St. Peter was destroyed by fire, and twenty-seven inmates lost their lives.
1881. March 1st, capitol at St. Paul destroyed by fire.
November, Lucius F. Hubbard elected Governor.
Digitized by Google
519
INDEX.
INDEX.
EXPLORERS AND PIONEERS OF MINNESOTA.
PAGE 1 TO 128.
PAGE.
PAGE.
Abraham, Plains of .. 1
Bremer, Frederika, Swedish nov-
Accault [Ako] Michael, compan- elist in Minnesota. 122
ion of Hennepin, 10, 18, 20, 28, 24, 28 Brisbin, J. B. 127
Described by La Salle. 18 Leader of Mississippi Explor- ations .. 19
Achiganaga arrested by Perrot .. 12
Tried for murder before Du Luth. 13 Aiouez, see Ioways
Albanel, Jesuit missionary at Sault St. Marie. 11
Keeps a grog shop for sol- diers .. 163 At Gray Cloud Island 113
Member of Wisconsin Leg- islature ... 113
Makes a town site near Stillwater .. 113 Secretary of Council, 1849 .. 119
Brnce, trader at Green Bay 63
Brunson, Rev. A., Methodist Mis- sionary. 111, 113
-
Brunson, B. W. 119
Brusky, Charles, Indian trader .. 77 Bulwer. Bir E. L., translation of Sioux Death Song .. 67
Denonville, Governor. attacks Senecas ..
15
Orders Du Luth to build a Fort .. 16
92 Sends for western allies. 30 Commissions Du Luth. 82 Denton, Rev. D., missionary to Sioux .. 111 D'Esprit, Pierre, see Radisson ... D'Evaque, in charge of Fort L'Hullier ... 48 Devotion, M., sutler at Fort Snelling. 91 D'Iberville, Gov., criticises Hen-
28
Dickson, Col. Robert, visits Lt. Pike. 77
Trading post at Grand Rapids 78 78 81 89 At Mendota
During war of 1812. .80,
At Lake Traverse.
96
D'Evaque visits 48 Boal, J. M., early settler at St.
Charlevoix on La Hontan's fab- rications . 98
On Le Sueur's mining opera- tions. .. 45 Chatfield, A. G., Territorial Judge ... 125 Chouart, Medard, see Grosalliers Christinaux mentioned .. 43, 44
Clark, Lt. Nathan. at Fort Snel- ling .. Letters from Gen. Gibson .... 94
90
Boudor trades with the Sioux .. Attacked by the Foxes ..
Bougainville, mentions Indian tribes seen by Verendrye. 60
Boutwell, Rev. W. T., Ojibway
missionary ... 106, Removes to Stillwater. 111
113 Notice of Stillwater. 114
Cooper. David, Territorial Judge 118 Copper mines of Lake Superior, Early notice of. 7 Braddock's defeat. 61
Notice of Ontanagon .. 7
Copper mines spoken of by Talon, A. D., 1669. 7 Coquard, Father, accompanies 60
Brissette, Edward, notice of. 114 Mentions Rocky Mountain Indians .. Brown, Joseph R., drummer boy at Fort Snelling. 95 60 Dakotahs or Dahkotahs, see Sioux Trading Post at Lake Trav- erse .. 102 D'Avagour, Governor of Canada, opinion of the region west of Lake Superior 1
Day. Dr. David 124
58 De Gonor, Jesuit, visits Lake Pepin. .51, Return to Canada. 54 58
Converses with Verendrye ... De la Barre, Governor, notices Du Luth.
11
De la Tour. Jesuits missionary .. 13
De La Tourette, Greysolon, brother of Du Luth. 16 Denis. Canadian voyageur, joins Le Sueur .. 42
Assineboines .. 2, 9, 23, 43, 46, 65
Angelle, Anthony, alias Picard du Guy, associate of Hennepin, 10, 18, 23, 24, 26 Ayer. Frederick, Missionary to Ojibways .. 107 Baker, B. F., Indian trader 112 Bailly. Alexis, drives cattle to Pembina .. 93
. In battle of Lake George 64 Member of Legislature. 93 Arrival at Mackinaw. 64 Balcombe, St. A. D. 127
Balfour, Captain .. 62
Describes the fort at Green Bay ... 61
Visita Winnebago Village. 64
Bass, J. W., early settler at St. Paul .. 116 Visits Fox Village .. 64 Describes Prairie du Chien .. 6.4 nepin. Relative of Le Sueur 39 61
Describes earth works at Lake Pepin .. 65 Dieskau, Baron.
66
Bellin alludes to Fort Rogue, on Red river. 87
Fort on St. Croix river. 112
Beltrami, G. C., notice of 93
Describes Minnesota river ... Describes funeral rites. 67
66 66
Discovers northern sources of the Mississippi. 94 Bishop, Harriet F .. , establishes school at St. Paul .. 114 Blue Earth River explored .... 45, 47
Translation of Bulwer and Herschell. .. 67, His alleged deed for Sioux land. 70
68 At Fort Snelling 93, William, son of Robert ... 96 Du Chesneau, intendent of Can- ada, complains of Duluth. 11
Grandsons of, visit Minne- sota .. 82
Paul ... .116, 118 Bottineau, J. B., exposed in a snow storm ... 102 Boisguillot, early trader on Wis- consin and Mississippi. 32 Boucher, Pierre, described Lake Superior copper mines. . 7
Father of Sieur de Le Per- riere .. 51 48
Du Luth, Daniel Greysolon, early 9 life of. Various spellings of his name 9 Establishes a Fort at Kaman- istigoya. 9 Descends the St. Croix river 11, 112 Arrests and executes Indians at Sault St. Marie 11 Brings allies to Niagara for De la Barre .. 15 Establishes a Fort on Lake Erie .. 15 Returns to Lake Erie with his cousin Tonty. 16 Brother of, from Lake Nepi- gon. 16 In command of Fort Fronte- nac. 16
Need help finding more records? Try our genealogical records directory which has more than 1 million sources to help you more easily locate the available records.