I have prevailed on the Good Genl.

to send a Strong party To Carry Supplies to fort Jeferson which I hope will be able to Releve it and as I have polticed wound and the Swelling much Asswaged if I find myself able to Set on hors back will Go with the party as I Can be very warm by Laping myself with blankets WM.

DARKE His Excellency The President of the United States.
INDEX.
Adair, John, skirmish with Indians, relations with Burr, arrested by Wilkinson.
Americans reluctant to war against Indians; culpably lax in defence of their honor.
Augusta, treaty at.
Backwoods folk, their deeds; their pressure on the Spanish dominions; they were the real factors in acquiring Louisiana.
Barbe Marbois, sound advice to Napoleon.
Beard, John, militia captain; kills Cherokees.
Bishop of Louisiana, hatred of Americans and Protestants.
Blennerhassett.
Bloody Fellow, Indian chief.
Blount College.
Blount, William, made governor of Southwestern Territory; organized it; his tact and ability; his loyalty; treats with Cherokees; helps cause of education; land speculations; good faith towards Indians; Superintendent of Indian Affairs; tries to restrain militia; and avert a general war; deceived by the Cherokees; deceived by Chickamaugas; puts down horse thieves; prevents outrages on Indians; controversy with Seagrove; efforts to avert war; successfully directs the war; desires a national war; elected Senator; excellent conduct in stopping filibustering; disapproves Jay's treaty; his extraordinary land-grabbing scheme; expelled from Senate; his handsome house.
Bonham, killed at St.Clair's defeat.
Books in the backwoods.
Boone in Missouri; his restlessness; meets English traveller; becomes a Spanish official; in Missouri.
Bowles, tory adventurer among Creeks.
Brady, attacks Indians.
Brant, the Iroquois chief, kindness to prisoners; advises war against Americans; pleased with Dorchester's speech; anger with British.
Brickell, captivity of.
British, support Indians; hostile to Americans; treachery of, on Northwestern frontier.
Brown, Senator from Kentucky, aids Genet.
Buchanan's Station, attack on.
Burr, Aaron, conspiracy of; his former career; his relations to the West; his treasonable schemes; he starts West; vagueness of his schemes; his intrigues with Wilkinson, Jackson, and various other Western leaders; his second trip West; his plans foiled by the Kentucky Federalists; crumbling of his plans; his trial.
Butler, John, British colonel, reads Dorchester's speech to the Indians.
Butler, Richard, General, failings as a commander; his courage; his death.
Butler, Thomas, Major, gallantry of, at St.Clair's defeat.
Caldwell, British partisan.
Campbell, Captain Mis, killed at Fallen Timbers.
Campbell, Judge, attacked by Indians; charge to Grand Jury.
Camp-meetings.
Carondelet, Baron, corresponds with Simcoe; incites savages to war against Americans; intrigues with Southern Indians; frank treachery; foolishness of; intrigues with Westerners; correspondence with Wayne; failure of his negotiations with the Westerners; declines to carry out treaty.
Cherokees, (_See_ Indians.) Chickamaugas, very hostile; treacherous; make open war; repulsed; their towns destroyed.
Chickasaw Bluffs.
Chickasaws, (_See_ Indians.) Cincinnati raided.
Claiborne, Governor of Mississippi, proposes attack on Louisiana; Governor of Orleans; his loyalty.
Clark, Elijah, his establishment of a little freebooter state.
Clark, George Rogers, wishes to acquire Spanish territory; intrigues with French; accepts a French commission; organizes expedition; collapse of expedition.
Clark, Major, killed at St.Clair's defeat.
Clark, William, serves under Wayne; defeats Indians in skirmish; at Fallen Timbers; his ability respected by Spaniards; starts across continent with Lewis; their voyage up the Missouri; their wonder at the strange animals; their good qualities as explorers; their attitude towards the Indians; they halt at Mandan for the winter; start west in the spring; travel through vast hunting grounds; cross the Rocky Mountains; their return voyage; adventures and accidents; their return; their after-fates.
Clay, Henry, and Burr.
Cocke, William, "the mulberry man".
Collins, envoy of De Lemos.
Colter.
Connecticut Reserve.
County, the unit of organization.
Creeks, make treaties; raid on Georgians; bad faith of; (_See_ Indians.) Cumberland District, ravaged by Indians; the settlers retaliate; rapid growth of.
Currency in the backwoods.
Darke, Colonel, gallantry of, at St.Clair's defeat.
Daveiss, Joseph H., Burr's most formidable foe; ingratitude, shown to, by Jefferson.
Defiance, Fort, built by Wayne.
Democratic societies, seditious conduct of.
Denny, St.Clair's aide, at St.Clair's defeat; carries the news to Washington.
Disunionists, folly and treachery of.
Doak, founds a college.
Dorchester, Lord, his speech; correspondence with land speculators.
Dunlop's Station, attack on.
Education, in Kentucky and Tennessee.
Elliott, British partisan.
Ellicott, Andrew, Surveyor-General at Natchez.
Explorers, of the Far West.
Fallen Timbers, battle of.
Federalist party, wrong in its attitude towards West.
Filibusters at New Orleans.
Flat boatmen.
Folch, Spanish Governor.
Frontiersmen, tend to retrograde; importance of; hatred of Indians; some of them profit by Indian wars; characteristics of; fondness for a lonely life; engage in river trade; but fundamentally farmers; build few and small towns; capacity for self-help; traits of those who became permanent settlers; their political organization; join together for common objects; hardness of life; existence in a log cabin; Americans the pioneers; failure of old-world immigrants on frontier; pioneers suspicious of merchants; sometimes repudiate debts; viciousness of their military system; their individualism in religious matters; they strain against Spanish boundaries; hated and feared by Spaniards; their advantages over Spaniards.
Galphinton, treaty at.
Game, vast herds of, on the great plains.
Gayoso de Lemos, sound advice to Carondelet; builds fort at Chickasaw Bluffs; negotiations with Wilkinson; anxiety over murder of his envoy; endeavors to check Protestantism among the settlers.
Genet, French Ambassador, his preposterous career; wishes to procure the conquest of Louisiana; commissions Clark; checked by Washington; recalled.
Georgia, makes her own treaties with Creeks; lawlessness of her backwoodsmen; they and the Indians commit brutal outrages on one another.
Girtys, one of, with treacherous Delawares; go with war parties of Indians; Simon, at Fallen Timbers.
Glass, Indian Chief.
Godoy, Prince of Peace, makes treaty with Pinckney.
Greeneville, Fort and afterwards Town of, founded by Wayne; treaty of.
Gunn, Senator, connection with Yazoo frauds.
Guyon, Isaac, Captain.
Hardin, Col.

John, treacherously slain by Indians.
Harrison, W.H.
Hart, Thomas.
Hawkins, Benjamin, his advice to Blount.
Hearne, Arctic explorer.
Herrera, Spanish General.
Holston, treaty of, with Cherokees.
Horse-thieves, white allies of.
Indiana Territory.
Indians, treachery of; hostility of; misjudged by Easterners; Northwestern, hold great council at Miami Rapids; band in open war against Americans; victory over St.Clair; serve British as a protection, and as police; their ravages; innumerable obscure conflicts with; Creeks and Cherokees; warfare with; the chief fact in early Tennessee history; typical character of these Tennessee wars; treachery of the Southern Indians; their peculiar warfare necessitates offensive returns; the divided state of the Creeks and Cherokees only increases the trouble of the settlers; extraordinary names among; Chickamaugas and Lower Cherokees as hostile as the Creeks; mixed war party beaten back from Buchanan's Station; outrages, conflicts with militia, Creeks and Georgians; Indians and frontiersmen; mutual outrages; Chickasaws assail Creeks; are helped by frontiersmen; Creeks and Cherokees forced to make peace; outrages cease; Chickasaws and Spaniards; their war with Creeks; division among them; play into the hands of Spaniards; the Indians of the Far West.
Innes, Judge, lukewarm towards Federal Government; bad conduct of; honorable attitude towards slavery; assailed by Daveiss.
Irwin, Thomas, the packhorse-man.
Jackson, Andrew, wars on criminals; goes to Congress; relations with Burr.
Jay, John, wrath of Westerners at his treaty; its good effects; its effects on Pinckney's treaty.
Jefferson, his intrigues against Washington; secretly aids the French; governmental inaptitude; his timidity; tries to buy Louisiana; tries to impress Napoleon; his vacillation; abandons his former theories; his ingratitude; Louisiana thrust upon him; his great services to science.
Jeffersonian Democracy, folly of; but the champion of the West.
Judicial officers, ride circuits.
Kenton, fight with Indians.
Kentucky, anger over Jay's treaty; statehood; gentry of; handsome houses of gentry; they are lawyers, manufacturers; but more than all, large landowners; compared with Virginians; habits of life.
_Kentucky Gazette_.
Knox, misunderstands Indian question.
Knoxville, founded; taverns at.
_Knoxville Gazette_, Federalist and anti-Jacobin; no sympathy with Genet; pathetic advertisements in; Indian outrages; public address on wrongs of Tennesseeans.
La Chaise, French agent.
Lake Ports, centres for fur trade and Indian intrigue; British cling to; taken possession of by Americans.
Land companies, their connection with British and Spanish intrigues, Land sales, unwise system of.
Lasselle, Antoine, the Canadian.
Laussat, French Prefect.
Lewis, Meriwether, _See_ William Clark.
Little Otter, Indian chief, his Wyandots and Ottowas defeat one of Wayne's detachments.
Little Turtle, Miami chief, at St.Clair's defeat; anecdote of.
Livingston, Robert R.
Logan, Benjamin, offers to join Clark; beaten for Governor of Kentucky.
Louisiana, really won for the United States by the Western settlers themselves; the diplomats really played a small part in acquiring it; the Mississippi no barrier to the backwoodsmen; they covet the mouth of the Mississippi; for the moment New Orleans of more consequence than the trans-Mississippi country; fury of West when Louisiana was ceded to France by Spain; fate of Louisiana inevitable; cession finally made; obtained purely because of growth of West; brief French occupation; apathy of Creoles; discontent in, at change; friction between Creoles and Americans; made into Territory of Orleans; composite character of the population of New Orleans; the Creoles and slavery; New Orleans offers a field for Burr's arts.
Mackenzie, Canadian explorer.
Madison, his frank Kentucky correspondent; Secretary of State; fear of West.
Mahaffy, a scout.
Malgares, Spanish Commander.
Mandan village.
Mansker, Kaspar, the Tennessee Indian fighter.
Marietta, settlements near, raided.
Marshall, Humphrey.
Massac, Wayne builds fort at.
May, a scout, death of.
McClellan, Robert, one of Wayne's scouts.
McGillivray, duplicity of; repudiated by Creeks; loss of influence; death of.
McKee, British Indian agent, treats prisoners well; holds council with Indians; advises them; incites them to war; presides at war councils; at Fallen Timbers; taunts the British with their treachery.
Mero district, convention wishes to retaliate on Indians.
Michaux, French agent.
Miller, Christopher and William, Wayne's scouts.
Mississippi Territory.
Monroe.
Montgomery, the filibuster.
Morales, Spanish Intendant, takes away right of deposit.
Muscogee, _See_ Creek.
Napoleon, his plans of empire; gets Louisiana from Spaniards; his utter moral depravity; wishes to occupy Louisiana in force; chimerical nature of his hopes; designates Victor as commander; his army destroyed in Hayti; sells Louisiana; recognizes the inevitable.
Natchez, Americans and Spaniards at; turmoil at; importance of; lawlessness at.
Nickajack, Chickamauga town, destroyed.
Nolan, Philip, his adventures and death.
North Carolina, cedes her western territory to United States.
O'Fallon, James, connection with Yazoo companies.
Ohio, made a State; its development hindered by the speculative land companies; adopts foolish constitution.
Oldham, Col., killed at St.Clair's defeat.
Ore, Major, at attack of Chickamauga towns.
Orleans.

_See_ Louisiana.
Owen, murder of.
Pickens, Andrew, Peace Commissioner.
Pickering, Timothy, fatuity of.
Pike, Zebulon Montgomery, the explorer; ascends the Mississippi; starts for the Rocky Mountains; hardships and perils encountered; taken by the Spaniards; sent home; his death.
Pinckney, Thomas, his treaty.
Pioneers.