Here lived, at this time, a settler named Heacock.
Owing to the badness of the roads a greater part of the year, the usual mode of communication between the fort and the Point was by a boat rowed up the river, or by a canoe paddled by some skilful hand.

By the latter means, too, an intercourse was kept up between the residents of the fort and the Agency House.
There were, at this time, two companies of soldiers in the garrison, but of the officers one, Lieutenant Furman, had died the autumn previous, and several of the others were away on furlough.

In the absence of Major Fowle and Captain Scott, the command devolved on Lieutenant Hunter.
Besides him, there were Lieutenants Engle and Foster--the latter unmarried.

Dr.Finley, the post surgeon, was also absent, and his place was supplied by Dr.Harmon, a gentleman from Vermont.
My husband's mother, two sisters, and brother resided at the Agency House--the family residence near the lake being occupied by J.N.

Bailey, the postmaster.
In the Dean House lived a Mr.and Mrs.Forbes, who kept a school.
Gholson Kercheval had a small trading establishment in one of the log buildings at Wolf Point, and John S.C.Hogan superintended the sutler's store in the garrison.
There was also a Mr.See lately come into the country, living at the Point, who sometimes held forth in the little school-house on a Sunday, less to the edification of his hearers than to the unmerciful slaughter of the "King's English." I think this enumeration comprises all the white inhabitants of Chicago at a period less than half a century ago.