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Fort Wayne

He was in the engagement

In 1843 the Fort Wayne Sentinel printed an old soldier's account of Harmar's defeat, copied from a journal he had kept for fifty-two years. One line of it puts Chief Richardville in the river that morning. Twenty-five years later the county's first history put the same man on the bank, a boy of ten or twelve, watching.

A printed page from a 1917 volume, numbered 99, with a running head in quotation marks. Below two paragraphs of text sits a pen and ink drawing of a river seen from a wooded bank, a large tree leaning out over the water from the left, houses among the trees on the far side, and a shelving gravel bar in the foreground. A small inset street map is set into the lower left corner of the drawing, and a signature is worked into the lower right. A caption in small capitals runs beneath it.

The Pictorial History of Fort Wayne, 1917, printed page 99, scan leaf n106, via the Internet Archive.

History

How this county was settled, named and fought over, read out of the county histories from Brice in 1868 to Griswold in 1917, the garrison orderly books, and the Fort Wayne Sentinel.

  • A printed page from a 1927 volume of historical collections, numbered 322 at the top left beside a running head in small capitals. A single column of set type on toned cream paper, broken twice by short centred headings, with a brace and two signatures set to the right at the foot of the page.

    Fort Wayne

    Without any provocation

    A private pleaded guilty to rioting in the public cornfield. Three men were then sworn, and what they said was not about the riot. The commanding officer punished the other man too, without charging him.

  • A printed page from a 1927 volume of historical collections, numbered 451 at the top left beside a running head in small capitals. Below a short heading, a column of names runs down the left with a column of figures down the right, joined by dot leaders, each line beginning with a small mark in the margin. A rule crosses the page below a subtotal, and a second short heading opens four further lines.

    Fort Wayne

    By different Indians

    John Johnston named every man who owed the United States factory at Fort Wayne, down to a labourer owing $2.70½. The Indian debtors are one line with no name on it, owing nearly twice what the sixteen named men owed together.

All 3 pieces in History

The maps

7 sheets of this county, drawn between 1803 and 1898.

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A map of the reservations at Fort Wayne, surveyed June 1803

Fort Wayne, Gateway of the West, 1802-1813, edited by Bert J. Griswold, Indiana Historical Collections volume XV, 1927, the plate facing printed folio 132, scan leaf n154.. Internet Archive.

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