8. Resolved, That compensation ought to be made to the attorney General of the said territory, for service performed by him in behalf of the United States.
Harrison to Secretary of War
Sir:
Such has been the irregularity of the mails from the severity of the winter that your favor of the 17th of January did not reach me until a few days ago. The same cause must have retarded my letter of the 14th of Dec. which I suppose had not been received when yours of the above date was written.
Capt. [William] Wells has certainly not exerted himself to pacify the Indians who have taken offence at the late Treaties [Vincennes, Sept. 17, 1802] with the Delawares and Piankeshaws. It is equally certain that the disaffected are not as numerous as he has stated them to be and that those who have expressed discontent have been instigated thereto entirely by the Turtle.[1] Whether the idea of opposition to those Treaties originated with himself or with Mr. Wells I cannot determine but that the opinions of the one are always the opinions of the other. I have long known The Turtle has considerable influence over the Five Medals[2] and some others of the Potawatomi chiefs and I believe that Captain Wells and himself control entirely the small band of Eel River Indians. But when Wells spealis of the Miami Nation being of this or that opinion he must be understood as meaning no more than the Turtle and himself. Nine tenths of that Tribe who acknowledge Richardville and Peccan[3] for their
- ↑ Little Turtle, or Mi-shi-kin-na-kwa. was the greatest of the Miamis. Born near the site of Fort Wayne about 1761, he died and was buried there July 14, 1812. He led his tribe at Harmar's defeat, 1790. St. Clair's defeat. 1791, and at his own defeat by Wayne at Fallen Timbers, 1794.
- ↑ . Five Medals. Onoxa or Wonongoseah, war chief of the Pottawatamie tribe on the river St. Joseph of Lake Michigan; his village was upon the Elkhart tributary of the St. Joseph.
Harrison, The Aborigines of the Ohio Valley. 73
- ↑ Owl or Long Beard, a Miami chief.
Griswold, The History of Ft. Wayne, 164
Peccon, a Miami chief, successor of Little Turtle during War of 1812. Died 1814 just after signing the second treaty of Greenville and was succeeded by Richardville. His home was about 5 miles up the St. Mary from Fort Wayne.
Butler, Huntington County, 225; Bryce, Fort Wayne, 280
