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Daniel Dunihue Diary, August 1- December 11, 1832

This diary was maintained by Daniel R. Dunihue during the period he was engaged to help conduct the removal a group of Seneca and Shawnee from near New Lebanon, Ohio to Missouri in 1832. The removals resulted from treaties negotiated at Lewistown and Wapaghkonnetta by Dunihue's cousin James B. Gardiner, a specially appointed Commisioner and Indian agent John McElvain. Dunihue, who was 21 at the time, eventually became a businessman in Bedford, Indiana.

This account of his daily life during the removal was his personal diary and was provided to Conner Prairie by Rebecca Lyon of Indianapolis. Dunihue also maintained, as required by government regulations, a "Journal of Occurences" as the official account of the removal. That journal is currently being transcribed. Letters written by Dunihue during this same time were published in the Indiana Magazine of History (vol. 35, 1939). Taken together they form a valuable account of the day to day travails of Indian removal.

The transcription was undertaken by Rebecca Lyon and Rebecca Zorich, formerly of Conner Prairie Museum. Every effort was made to retain spelling, grammar and punctuation of the original. Click below to go to each month's entries.

Daniel Dunihue Diary, August 1832

AUGUST 1, 1832

THIS DAY FORMED THE DETERMINATION OF KEEPING A DAILY ACCOUNT OF OCCURENCES -- A BOOK IN SOME DEGREE SIMILAR TO A DIARY.

THE INTERMEDIATE TIME SINCE THE CONCLUSION OF A FORMER ONE AND THIS, HAS BEEN SPENT IN TRAVELING, WRITING LETTERS, COPIES ETC. & IN READING-CHATTING WITH COZ. ETC.

AFTER BREAKFAST, COPIED THREE REQUESITIONS ON LIEUT. J.F.L-

DIS. AUG.

1ST- 300.00 IRONS FOR BL. AT WAPAGH

2ND- 150.00 DR. LEWISTON & _____ SMITHS

3RD- 14000 RATIONS ---9800 AT WAPAGH & 4200 AT LEWIS

12 O'CLOCK: FINISHED COPYING THREE LETTERS TO THE MERCHANTS IN SANDUSKY CITY, ON THE SUBJECT OF BLANKETS, RIFLES & SHEETING. READ UNTIL 2 O'CLOCK IN JOHNSONS ? COPIED ABOUT A DOZEN "REQUISITIONS" ON LIUET. J.F. LANE, DIS. AGT, FOR J.B.G. AT 5 O'CLOCK MADE AN ADDITION OF 4 OR 5000$ FOR H. MCPHERSON, OF THE SUMS MAKING THE TOTAL OF THE IMPROVEMENT MONEY OF THE SHAWNEE & SENECA INDIANS. HALF PAST 5 RODE OUT 2 MILES TO THE RESIDENCE OF GEN. WORKMAN WHERE I HAD THE PLEASURE OF CHATTING WITH HIS PRETTY YOUNG AND AGREEABLE DAUGHTER FOR PERHAPS AN HOUR. SHE ACCOMPANIED ME THROUGH THE GARDEN TO THE FENCE WHEN I STARTED HOME; WHILE IN THE GARDEN WE EMPLOYED OUR TIME IN TALKING ABOUT AND COMPARING ITS VARIOUS ORNIMENTS AND "VALUABLES" ETC. ETC.

AFTER SUPPER, WROTE A LETTER TO COZ. HARRIET E. GARDNER, BY LIUET. LANE, WHO STARTS IN THE MORNING FOR CINCINNATI (TO REMAIN THERE BUT A WEEK)

AUGUST 2, 1832 THURSDAY MORNING

READ MRS. HERMAN'S "SONG OF THE GIFTED" A PRETTY LITTLE BALLAD ON LOVE. DONE SOME COPYING AND WRITING UNTIL TEN. READ HENRY'S NARRATIVE UNTIL TWO. COPIED LETTER TO LIEUT. LANE AT CINCINNATI & MADE AN ADDITION FOR H.H. MCPHERSON OF THE AMOUNT OF INDIAN IMPROVEMENTS & COT. LEWIS. AT 4 O'CLOCK RODE OUT INTO THE COUNTRY -- INTENDED TO GO TO SOLOMON'S TOWN, BUT THERE BEING BUT ONE HOUSE THERE, I WAS SO UNFORTUNATE AS TO RIDE THROUGH IT AND TWO MILES FURTHER BEFORE I KNEW MY MISTAKE. SOLOMON TOWN IS FIVE MILES FROM COL. MCPHERSON'S FROM WHENCE I STARTED. THE COUNTRY ON THE BIG MIAMI TO WHERE I WENT IS RICH, HEALTHFUL, AND OF COURSE VALUABLE, IT IS HOWEVER VERY MILD. I RETURNED IN THE EVENING AFTER SUPPER, 9 O'CLOCK READ HENRY'S NARRATIVE.

AUGUST 3, 1832 FRIDAY MORNING

AFTER BREAKFAST ENGAGED IN COPYING TWO COMMUNICATIONS TO THE COMMANDING GENERAL OF SUB. WHICH ENGAGED ME UNTIL DINNER -- AFTER WHICH I WROTE THIS. 1 O'CLOCK COMMENCED READING HENRY'S NAR. IN WHICH I HAD PREVIOUSLY BEEN ENGAGED - AND READ 40 PAGES BY SUNSET WHICH BROUGHT ME TO THE CONCLUSION. I WAS WELL PLEASED WITH THAT WORK. IT DEVELOPES THE INDIAN CHARACTER IN AS TRUE A LIGHT AS PROBABLY ANY OTHER NARRATIVE.

AT SUPPER RECIEVED A LETTER FROM BROTHER ALEXANDER FROM LEBEBON STATING HIS DETERMINATION TO GO HOME SOON & ONE FROM W.C. MITCHELL OF BEDFORD, IND. CONTAING VARIOUS NEWS, LOVE, MATRIMONY ____ & ELOPEMENT. ETC......READ FROM 7 UNTIL 10 O'CLOCK THE LATEST NEWS FROM WASHINGTON. HUBBUB IN SENATE CREATED BY STANBERRY & CO.

AUGUST 4, 1832 SATURDAY MORNING

AFTER BREAKFAST SAT DOWN TO WRITE AT WHICH I CONTINUED UNTIL NEARLY DINNER TIME, AFTER DINNER WALKED INTO THE WOODS, GATHERED SOME MAY APPLES. 1 O'CLOCK COMMENCED WRITING AGAIN -- QUIT AT 2. HALF PAST TWO WALKED TWO OR THREE MILES, BEING FROM PLACE TO PLACE WITHIN ONE MILE, FOR THE PURPOSE OF HUNTING SOME BLACK-BERRIES -- FOUND A DOZEN. AT 4 O'CLOCK RETURNED & READ POLITICS UNTIL SUPPER TIME AFTER WHICH I WENT ABOUT HALF A MILE WHERE SOME INDIANS THAT WERE INTOXICATED, HAD FOUGHT A FEW MINUTES BEFORE.....SOME OF THEM WERE MUCH HURT. GAVE ONE OF THEM ONE TWIST OF TOBACCO......HALF PAST SEVEN COMMENCED READING NEWSPAPER NEWS & POLITICS...AT NINE READ AN HOUR IN "CARVER'S ADVENTURES AMONG THE INDIANS". TEN O'CLOCK WENT TO BED.

AUGUST 5, 1832 SUNDAY MORNING

AFTER BREAKFAST ---SHAVING, READ POLITICS UNTIL DINNER. 1 O'CLOCK COMMENCED COPYING A COMMUNICATION TO GEN. GEO. GELA (?) COM. GEN. SUB. (?) WAS. CITY ON THE BUSINES OF THE IMIGRATION OF THE INDIANS. THREE O'CLOCK FINISHED THE ABOVE & WENT AS A BEAUX AND GUARDIAN COMPANION TO TWO YOUNG LADIES UPON A VISIT OF TWO MILES TO SEE A YOUNG LADY & GET BLACKBERRIES. AFTER CHATTING AN HOUR OR TWO WITH LADIES & GUEST STARTED HOME IN COMPANY WITH TWO YOUNG LADIES & SEVERAL SMALLER GIRLS. RETURNED TO WITHIN HALF A MILE OF HOME THEN LEFT THE PARTY TO GALLANT THE YOUNG THE YOUNG LADY WHOM WE IN THE FIRST PLACE WENT TO VISIT BACK HOME. SHE HAVING ACCOMPANIED US A MILE AND A HALF ON OUR WAY HOME AFTER PAYING HER A VISIT. HAVING ARRIVED AT HER FATHERS HOUSE I BID HIM GOOD EVENING AND RETURNED. WHEN MY JOURNEY WAS CONCLUDED I FOUND IT TO BE NEARLY NINE O'CLOCK. AND NOW AFTER SETTING DOWN THE LITTLE JAUNT I WILL SAY ONE WORD RESPECTING THE PERSONS WITH WHOM I HAVE HAD THE PLEASURE, THIS DAY OF COMING IN CONTACT WITH.

THE PRINCIPAL ONE WHO WAS MY COMPANION ON THE VISIT (THE OTHER ONE OF TEN YRS.) HAS PROBABLY SEEN THE BLOOM OF EIGHTEEN SUMMERS AND A PERFECT MODEL OF SIMPLICITY AND NATURAL INNOCENCE; IF BENEATH THE UNCONCIOUS THREAD, A HARMLESS INSECT WAS CRUSHED, A RESPONDING FEELING OF PAIN WAS PERCEPTIBLE IN HER BOSOM, IN THE SYMPATHETIC EXPRESSION OF HER EYE AND COUNTENANCE.

HAVING BEEN RAISED & EDUCATED IN THIS WILD AND DISTANT COUNTRY SHE AQUIRED A HARDIHOOD OF CONSTITUTION WHICH THOSE IN MORE POLISHED PARTS OF THE WORLD MAY ENVY & COVET IN VAIN. A FEARLESSNESS OF CHARACTER AND CONTENTEDNESS OF DISPOSITION WAS DISPLAYED IN THE FIRM AND UPRIGHT YET MODEST DEPORTMENT OF THE MAIDEN WHICH IS NOT TO BE IMITATED OR EVEN CONCEIVED IN ITS PROPER SENSE BY THOSE WHO ARE IN AQUAINTENCE WITH THE RURAL LIFE. THE YOUNG LADY THIS COUNTRY LASS & MYSELF WERE PAYING A VISIT WAS THE DAUGHTER OF A RESPECTABLE FARMER FORMERLY A SENATOR IN THE LEGISLATURE OF HIS STATE. AND WHO, PREFERRING THE QUIET OF RURAL LIFE TO THE BUSTLE & TROUBLE OF A PUBLIC ONE HAS REMOVED FROM THE VILLAGES WHERE HE HAD RESIDED FOR A NUMBER OF YEARS, INTO THE COUNTRY AT THE SHORT DISTANCE OF FIVE OR SIX MILES FORM HIS TOWN BUT IN A VERY WILD OR NEW SETTLEMENT WHERE HE COULD ENJOY UNDISTURBED THE FRUITS OF HIS LABOR. I SAY IT WAS THE DAUGHTER OF THIS PERSON TO WHOM WE PAID THE VISIT. SHE WAS YOUNG -- QUITE YOUNG, NOT MORE THAN SIXTEEN PROBABLY NOT SO OLD. SHE WAS THE POSSESSOR OF SOME BEAUTY AND AN ENORMOUS QUANTITY OF MILDNESS, AN ARTICLE WHICH WILL INSURE RESPECT TO A PERSON OF GOOD SENSE AND WOMANLY DECORUM, BOTH OF WHICH SHE HAD IN ABUNDANCE. CONSIDERING THE IMMATURITY OF HER PRINCIPLES AND THE UNSUBSTANTIALNESS OF HER RESOLUTIONS, WHICH WERE HOWEVER, NEVER VIOLATED WHEN SUCH VIOLATION WOULD RENDER HER CENSORABLE WITH ANY DISGRACE OR SHADOW BY THE PARTY THUS ON THE "VANTAGE GROUND"; HER EYE BEAMED WITH THE UTMOST BENIGNITY OF VIRTUOUS PURPOSE & FIRM RELIANCE ON THE MERITED PROTECTION OF INNOCENCE FROM THE HIDDEN SNARES OF VICE, AND THE ATTROCITY OF OPEN INSULT. HER COUNTENANCE BORE THE MARK OF CONTENT AND NOT ONLY A WILLINGNESS TO PLEASE BUT A DESIRE TO CONDUCE TO THE HAPPINESS OF ALL AROUND HER. HER COMPLEXION WAS FAIR AND HER HAIR OF A BEAUTIFUL AUBURN, HER EYES THE MOST INTERESTING BLUE, HER STATURE RATHER BELOW THE AVERAGE SIZE -- BUT A BEAUTIFUL FIGURE & WITHAL A HANDSOME YOUNG LADY. I SHOULD HAVE SAID THAT SHE WAS SOMEWHAT BASHFUL -- WHICH IS THE RESULT OF YOUTH & WILL PASS AWAY AS IT DOES -- BUT SHE IS NOT WITH STANDING

_____ & SOCIABLE. 11 O'CLOCK I NOW GO TO BED.

AUGUST 6, 1832 MONDAY

AFTER BREAKFAST I HAD SUCH A VIOLENT ATTACK OF HEAD ACHE THAT I WAS COMPELLED TO GO TO BED -- AND TO TAKE MEDICINE. AT 12 BETTER -- AT 1 ALMOST WELL -- COMMENCED WRITING -- WROTE A LETTER TO GEN. CASS, SETY. WAR & ONE TO ELBERT HERRING HE WHO STANDS AT THE HEAD OF THE INDIAN BUREAU

THO "GRANNY" INCLOSING AN _____(?) MADE OUT THIS AFTERNOON ALSO OF THE FEES & SERVICES & CHARGES OF COL. J.B.G. FOR ATTENDING THE INVESTIGATION OF A DISPUTE OR RATHER A CLAIM BY THE WYANDOTT INDIANS NOT RESIDING UPON THE "GRAND RESERVE" FOR AN INTEREST IN THE RES. WITH THE BIG SPRINGS INDIANS (WYANDOTT). AFTER SUPPER WROTE TWO LETTERS WHICH OCCUPIED MY TIME UNTIL 12 O'CLOCK AT WHICH TIME I WENT TO BED - AFTER WRITING THIS LAST SENTENCE.

AUGUST 7, 1832 TUESDAY MORNING

READ UNTIL 11 O'CLOCK. STARTED TO BELLEFONTAINE -- ARRIVED THERE, AWAITED TWO HOURS FOR MAIL, RECIEVED ONE LETTER FROM COZ. LUCY M.G. FROM LEBANON WITH WHICH I WAS MUCH PLEASED. RECIEVED ANOTHER FROM OLD ASSOCIATE R.W. THOMPSON, FROM BEDFORD IND. WITH WHICH ALSO I WAS HIGHLY GRATIFIED. IT EXPRESSES THE TRUE FEELINGS OF FRIENDSHIP & DREW MY MIND TO TIMES AND SCENES "ON WHICH I LOVE TO DWELL." AT 4 P.M. RETURNED TO COL. MCPHERSON'S AND AT 5 P.M. COMMENCED COPYING SOME "RESOLUTIONS" DRAWN UP AND HANDED TO ME...

THIS DAY J.B. GARDINER LEFT COL. MCPH'S FOR LEBANON. 11 O'CLOCK AT NIGHT: HAVING COPIED 7 OR 8 PAGES OF JACKSON RESOLUTIONS, I HAVE CONCLUDED TO TRY TO SLEEP MYSELF INTO A KIND OF QUITNESS FOR SUCH A "MONSTEROUS SIN."

AUGUST 8, 1832 WEDNESDAY

MADE A MUSTER ROLL & PUT THREE OR FOUR NAMES ON IT... ATTENDED TO NOTHING BUT FINISHING THE JACKSON RESOLUTIONS & LOOK AT THE INDIANS ETC. UNTIL 12 O'CLOCK. AFTER DINNER SIGNED WITNESSES SIGNATURES FOR MYSELF & COL. J. MCPHERSON (HIS BY HIS ORDER) TO THE RECIEPT OF CASH BY THE SHAWNEE INDIANS(AS THEIR ANNUITIES FROM COL. JOHN M. EHAMI, IN SGT.) 4 O'CLOCK COMMENCED A BRIEF VINDICATION OF SOME ERRONEOUS POSITIONS ASSUMED BY SOME OF THE JACKSON PARTY IN THE RESOLUTIONS (WHICH I HAVE JUST BEEN HANDLING) AGAINST LT. CLAY ETC. 7 O'CLOCK LAUGHED HARTILY AT THE COLLISION AND LITIGATION OF PERSONAL STINGINESS & PHYSICAL REBUFFS OF SOME DRUNKEN INDIANS AND SOME WHITE MEN WHO WISHED TO DRIVE THEM AWAY FROM THE PREMISIS ON WHICH THEY HAD TRESPASSED WHEN INTOXICATED, ETC. ETC...AT LEAST HALF PAST NINE WENT TO BED.

AUGUST 9, 1832 THURSDAY

AFTER WRITING AN HOUR OR TWO AT MY "VINDICATION" ETC...AT 10 O'CLOCK WALKED A MILE OR SO INTO THE WOODS TO SEE A GANG OF TURKEYS WHICH MCPHERSON HAD WENT OUT TO SHOOT AT & ONE OF WHICH HE KILLED. AFTER DINNER WROTE A VERY BIG LETTER TO DR. E.C. WABERLY OCCUPYING TWO OR THREE HOURS AND CONTAINING FOUR PAGES OF CLOSELY WRITTEN PAPER. AT FIVE WROTE A LITTLE WHILE LONGER AT MY "VINDICATION" . AFTER SUPPER WENT INTO THE WOODS A MILE AND A HALF TO SEE THE INDIANS, SOME OF WHOM WERE INTOXICATED AND AS EXPECTED WOULD QUARREL & FIGHT BUT WERE DISAPPOINTED. CHATTED A WHILE WITH THEM...RETURNED HOME AT A QUARTER BEFORE TEN & WENT TO BED.

AUGUST 10, 1832 FRIDAY

WROTE A LETTER TO J.B. GARDINER AT LEBANON. RECORDED 6 PAGES (?) FOR HIM BY LANE (MARTIN) ON VARIOUS SUBJECTS. PROCEED TO BELFONTAINE TO THE POST OFFICE WHERE I TOOK FROM THE OFFICE A COMMUNICATION FROM THE SECTY. OF WAR PRO TEM. STATING THAT GEN. JACKSON WAS GONE TO TENNESSEE, GEN. CASS TO DETROIT & GEN. GIBSON TO NOWHERE ELSE SO THAT HE WOULD RECEIVE HIS INSTRUCTIONS AS SOON AS IT WAS POSSIBLE TO COMMUNICATE WITH PRESIDENT JACKSON. (I SENT IT BY MAIL TO LEBANON) RETURNED AT DINNER AFTER WHICH I TOOK ON MY MUSTER ROLL: THE NUMBER & AGES & NAMES ETC. OF TWENTY OR THIRTY INDIANS. 3 O'CLOCK WENT TWO MILES FOR BLACKBERRIES...FOUND A FEW...WENT TO THE HOUSE OF GENERAL WORKMAN, STAID AN HOUR...ON RETURN MET HIS PRETTY AND AGREEABLE DAUGHTER...CHATTED A FEW MINUTES WITH HER IN THE ROAD...AT SUNDOWN GOT HOME AFTER SUPPER, READ NEARLY ALL MCCAREY'S "ADDRESS TO THE GOOD SENSE OF THE NATION AGAINST THE SPIRIT OF RESISTANCE AND DISOLUTION OF THE UNION"....AT TEN WENT TO BED.

AUGUST 11, 1832 SATURDAY

AFTER BREAKFAST STARTED TO TAKE THE NAMES OF THE SENECA & SHAWNEE INDIANS OF LEWISTON FOR THE PURPOSE OF FINISHING THE NUSTER ROLL WHICH I HAD COMMENCED BEFORE. RODE ALL DAY & GOT THE NAMES OF ALL WHICH HAD NOT PREVIOUSLY BEEN TAKEN ( WITH AN EXCEPTION OF PROBABLY HALF A DOZEN ). MY INTERPRETER WAS MARTIN LANE. AFTER SUPPER WROTE A LETTER TO JOS. MCCUTCHEN INFORMING HIM THAT COPIES (?) ETC. COULD NOT BE PROCURED IN TIME FOR HIM ETC. ETC....HALF PAST NINE WENT TO BED.

AUGUST 12, 1932 SUNDAY MORNING

AFTER BREAKFAST SPENT THE FORE NOON (BEFORE DINNER) WITH THE INDIANS AT COL. MCPHERSON'S, IN CORRECTING & ATTUNING MY MUSTER ROLL. AFTER DINNER READ YOUNG'S "RIGHT THOUGHTS" UNTIL TWO...THEN SUNG UNTIL THREE...THEN IDLED UNTIL FOUR THEN STARTED WITH THREE YOUNG MEN ON FOOT TO A LAKE OF PROBABLY 160 ACRES, THREE MILES OFF....ARRIVED THERE, SOLICITED THE LOAN OF A YAWL FOR A SHORT TIME, AND WAS DENIED IT... WROTE THE FOLLOWING. THEN THE YAWL WAS LENT BY ONE OF THE FAMILY OF THE PERSON WHO REFUSED IT EARLIER. I SAID "SIR WILL YOU PLEASE ACCEPT THE THANKS OF A STRANGER FOR YOUR POLITENESS IN LENDING YOUR YAWL".

WE WENT IN AND BATHED, REMAINING TWENTY MINUTES, WHILEIN SAW SEVERAL PERSONS MALE & FEMALE, WHO HOWEVER KEPT AT A RESPECTFUL DISTANCE WITH THE EXCEPTION OF THREE BACKWOODS, HOMESPUN LAND HUNTERS WHO WATERED THEIR HORSES AT THE VERY SPOT AT WHICH, AND AT THE TIME WE GOT OUT.

RETURNED AT DARK TIRED ENOUGH. WROTE THIS AFTER SUPPER (HALF PAST EIGHT). I AM NOW GOING TO READ YOUNG'S NIGHT THOUGHTS UNTIL I GET SLEEPY AT WHICH TIME YOU MAY HEAR ONE GOING TO BED IF YOU WILL TAKE THE TROUBLE TO LISTEN. SO MAY THE LORD HELP US AND PRESERVE US IN THIS WORLD AND RECEIVE US AND HELP US IN THE NEXT...IS MY PRAYER FOR CHRISTS SAKE AMEN.

AUGUST 13, MONDAY MORNING

AFTER BREAKFAST COMMENCE FINISHING COPIES OF MUSTER ROLL, CONTINUED UNTIL DINNER AND AFTER, THEN WALKED INTO THE PRARIE AND STAID AN HOUR...WAS ASKED BY A COUNTRY LOON WHY I HAD INSULTED HIM ON YESTERDAY BY INSINUATING THAT HE WAS AN INDECENT FELLOW? I TOLD HIM THAT I DID NOT INTEND INSULTING HIM BY SUCH AN INTIMATION....IT WAS TRUE I HAD MADE IT BUT ONLY AS A MATTER OF ROMANCE...HE WAS NOT SATISFIED AND SAID THAT IF I WAS RAISED IN A TOWN AND COME OUT HERE ON THE FRONTIERS AND PUT ON MY AIRS THAT I WAS NO BETTER THAN OTHER PEOPLE. I TOLD THE POOR FELLOW THAT IT WAS PERFECTLY IMMATERIAL TO ME WHETHER HE TOOK MY OPEN AND UNDISGUISED EXUSE OR NOT. BUT THAT IF HE PERSISTED IN BEING UNRECONCILED TO ME ON THAT SCORE, I SHOULD BE COMPELLED TO CONSIDER HIM A GREATER FOOL THAN I EVER BEFORE THOUGHT HE WAS. HE WAS ALMOST READY TO PITCH ON ME AND RAISED A PITCHFORK WHICH HE HELD IN HIS HAND TO STRIKE ME IF I SHOULD ADVANCE, OR INSULT HIM AGAIN...FINDING, HOWEVER, THAT HIS ANTAGONIST WAS NOT EASILY FRIGHTENED EITHER WITH WORDS OR SUCH HARMLESS ACTIONS HE SOON QUIETED HIMSELF AND DROVE ON....

6 O'CLOCK: RECIEVED A SHORT EPISTLE FROM MR. VANTHORN (?) FROM LEBANON BY LT. J.F. LANE WHO THIS DAY RETURNED FROM CINCINNATI, WISHING ME TO GO TO SPRINGFIELD IF HIS BID TO FURNISH 14000 RATIONS WAS SUCCESSFUL, WHICH WAS NOT THE CASE. D.M. WORKMAN GOT 4200 AT LEWISTON AND DR. ____(?) AT PIQUA GOT 9800 AT WAPAGHKONETTA.

FROM SIX UNTIL EIGHT READ YOUNG'S NIGHT THOUGHTS & CONVERSED WITH COL. MCPHERSON & CO. ON THE VARIOUS SUBJECTS OF AN EVENING OF FIRESIDE, VIZ.: POLITICS, LOVE, PUBLIC DUTY, AND ABOUT INDIAN TRANSPORTATION, EXPENDITURE AND MODE OF DO & DO ETC. ETC.

THIS MORNING COL. MCELAMIE & CO. LEFT HERE FOR UPPER SANDUSKY TO PAY THE SENECA INDIANS THEIR ANNUITIES...HE CAME IN HERE YESTERDAY. AT NINE I NOW COMMENCE WITH YOUNG AGAIN FOR HALF AN HOUR WHEN I SHALL GO TO BED.

TUESDAY MORNING, AUGUST 14

READ YOUNG'S NIGHT THOUGHTS UNTIL NINE. TEN: STARTED TO BELLFONTAINE...ARRIVED THERE MET LIET. J.F. LANE. TOOK LETTER FROM OFFICE DIRECTED TO COL. MCPHERSON FROM J.B. GARDINER ON THE SUBJECT OF VACINATION OF THE INDIANS: WROTE LETTER TO J.B. GARDINER.

RECIEVED A LETTER FROM BROTHER ALEX STATING THAT HE INTENDED LEAVING LEBANON FOR BEDFORD, IND. WITHOUT DELAY. ETC.ETC.

HAD INTRODUCTIONS TO J.F. LANE'S BROTHER & BROTHER IN LAW...TWO APPENTLY FINE FELLOWS WHOM J.F. INTENDS ASSISTING INTO OFFICE, AS COMPANIES OR COMMANDERS SECRETARY. (AS ALSO SOME MORE OF HIS FRIENDS WHEN THEY ARRIVE WHICH HE ANTICIPATES WILL BE WITHOUT MUCH LOSS OF TIME.)

DINED WITH THE LIEUT. & CO....ETC. 12 O'CLOCK PAID CAPT. D. ROBB _____ IND. A VISIT OF HALF AN HOUR, HEARD HIS INSTRUCTIONS FROM COL. GORDON TO HAVE THE INDIANS OF WAPPAGHKONETTE ASSEMBLED FOR THE PURPOSE OF BEING VACCINATED ETC.ETC.

CHATTED WITH LANE & OTHERS UNTIL 3 O'CLOCK WHEN I CAME BACK TO THE COL.'S READ POLITICS & YOUNG UNTIL SUPPER.....AFTER SUPPER WAS TOLD BY MARTIN LANE, THE U.S. INTERPRETER THAT HE (LANE) HAD TOLD THE PERSON WHOM I HAD YESTERDAY BEEN AT VARIANCE WITH, THAT I HAD GONE TO TOWN FOR THE PURPOSE OF PROCURING A WARRANT TO TAKE HIM TO TRIAL FOR MENACING ME WITH PITCHFORK...A THING THAT I HAD NEVER THOUGHT OF SINCE "THE DAY I WAS BORN". BUT I COULD NOT REFRAIN FROM LAUGHING (ALTHOUGH I REGRETTED THAT HE HAS TOLD THE FELLOW SO) WHEN I HEARD THE EFFECT WHICH THE INTELLIGENCE HAD PRODUCED UPON HIM....HE DISPLAYED FOR A LITTLE WHILE THE UTMOST APPARENT CARELESSNESS & UNBELIEF: HE SOON, HOWEVER, CHANGED INTO A KIND OF RAGE AND DETERMINATION TO RESIST THE OFFICER SHOULD ONE COME. BUT SEEING SOME ANXIETY EXPRESSED BY THOSE IN COMPANY, ( HE WAS ENGAGED WITH TWO OR THREE MEN IN HAULING HAY HALF A MILE FROM THE HOUSE) AND A KIND OF WATCHFUL EXPECTATION FROM SAME PERSONS, HE BEGAN TO PUT ON A LOCK OF VIGILANCE. WHEN HE FOUND AN OPPORTUNITY OF EVACUATING THE HAY PEN WITH AS MUCH PRUDENCE AS HE SUPPOSED CONSISTANT WITH HIS SITUATION HE WAS NOT BACKWARD IN MAKING USE OF IT; AND INDEED, THOSE WITH WHOM HE WAS, WERE SO DESIROUS OF GETTING A GOOD JOKE ON HIM THAT THEY EXCITED HIM AS MUCH AS POSSIBLE ....AND ENCOURAGED HIM TO LEAVE THEM BY GIVING HIM SO MANY OPPURTUNITIES. THEY TOLD HIM THAT THE VALUE OF THE WARRANT WOULD EXPIRE AT 10 O'CLOCK TOMMORROW; THAT IF HE COULD EVADE THE OFFICERS THAT LONG HE WAS IN NO DANGER WHATEVER OF BEING COMPELLED TO SUFFER FOR WHAT HE HAD DONE. "WELL" SAID HE WHEN HE HEARD THEM SAY SO, "IF I DON'T KEEP DULY SOBER TIL 10 O'CLOCK TOMMORROW I DON'T KNOW ". IT WAS ABOUT THE MIDDLE OF THE DAY WHEN THIS HAPPENED...AND HE HAS NOT BEEN SEEN BY ANY OF THE FAMILY...IT IS NOW 9 O'CLOCK AT NIGHT.

READ SOME POLITICS SINCE SUPPER & SOME IN YOUNG....HAVING A SLIGHT HEAD ACHE I SHALL GO TO BED IN A FEW MINS.

WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 15, 1832

READ THE BIOGRAPHY OF DR. EDWARD YOUNG AND A FEW OF THE CONCLUDING PAGES OF HIS "NINTH NIGHT". AFTER DINNER WENT INTO THE WOODS AND FOUND A FEW BLACKBERRIES. THIS AFTERNOON LIEUT. LANE CAME OUT HERE...I GAVE HIM A MUSTER ROLL OF THE SENECAS AND SHAWNEES. AFTER SUPPER (6 O'CLOCK) WROTE TILL 9 AT MY VINDICATION...QUARTER PAST NINE WENT TO BED.

THURSDAY MORNING, AUGUST 16, 1832

AFTER BREAKFAST UNTIL 9 O'CLOCK WAS ENGAGED WITH COL. MCPHERSON, MARTIN LANE, BIRD JOHN AND PEWIATCHEE. INFORMING THE LATTER TWO PERSONS OF THE WISH OF THE PRESIDENT OF THE U.S. AND OF THE SECRETARY OF WAR TO HAVE THEIR PEOPLE (THE INDIANS) VACINNATED; AND CONSULTING THEM WITH RESPECT TO THE TIME & PLACE. AND REPRESENTING THE NECESSITY OF SUCH AN OPERATION BEING PERFORMED PREVIOUS TO THEIR DEPARTURE FOR THE WEST. THEY AGREED WITH US THAT IT WAS A GOOD PRECAUTION AND SAID THAT THEY WOULD HOLD A COUNCIL WITH THEIR NATION ETC. ETC. AFTER WHICH I FINISHED MY VINDICATION. AFTER DINNER READ "GOLDSMITHS ANIMATED NATURE". AFTER DINNER UNTIL 5 O'CLOCK READ THE "SPECTATOR", AFTER THAT AND UNTIL SUPPER READ & TALKED POLITICS ETC.

NOW 8 O'CLOCK. I AM GOING TO COMMENCE THE "SPECTATOR" AGAIN, AFTER WHICH I WILL GO TO BED IF THE LORD IS WILLING.

FRIDAY MORNING, AUGUST 17, 1832

CHATTED AN HOUR OR TWO WITH CAPT. WEAVER, (TO WHOM I WAS INTRODUCED THIS MORNING BY LIEUT. LANE, MR. BEWELL & LIEUT. J.F. LANE...THE TWO FORMER WERE GOING TO WAPAGHKONETTA ON BUSINESS RELATING TO THE IMIGRATION.

10 O'CLOCK WENT TO BELLEFONTAINE. WROTE A LETTER TO J.B. GARDINER, IN. AGT., ON SUBJECTS CONNECTED WITH THE EMIGRATION AND PREPRATORY ARRANGEMENTS ETC. READ TWO LETTERS FROM HIM ON VARIOUS SUBJECTS: ONE INFORMING ME OF THE CONFIRMATION OF THE APPOINTMENT OF MAJOR G.W. POOL TO THE OFFICE OF ASST. AGENT, AND HIS INTENTION TO COME HERE IN A FEW DAYS. AND STATING ALSO THAT MY BROTHER A.H. WAS ABOUT TO LEAVE HIS HOUSE FOR INDIANA.

BY THE SAME MAIL RECEIVED FROM BROTHER A.H. STATING THAT HE INTENDED ENTERING INTO BUSINESS AT LOUISVILLE, KY. OR OF GOING TO HIS FATHER'S IMMEDIATLY ETC. ETC. HAD AN INTRODUCTION TO MR. DRUM OF MADISON IND., A MAN WHO HAS JUST COME TO GO WITH THE EMIGRATING INDIANS WEST OF THE MISSISSIPPI. HE WAS INSTRUCTED TO COME BY J.F. LANE & WILL ACT, PROBABLY, AS COMMISSARY. TWO O'CLOCK RETURNED. READ POLITICS AND CORRECTED SOME WRITING...& TOOK COPY OF MY ACCEPTANCE OF THE OFFICE OF ASST. TO COMD. OF INDS. WHICH WAS WRITTEN ON THE 12 OF JULY, BUT WHICH I HAD NEGLECTED TO MAKE A COPY OF. WROTE A FEW STANZAS...& LETTER TO THE EDITOR OF THE BELLEFONTAINE GAZETTE INCLOSING THEM, THEN INSTRUSTED THEM IN A SKETCH BOOK WHICH I THIS NIGHT MADE. 11 O'CLOCK WENT TO BED.

SATURDAY, AUGUST 18, 1832

AFTER BREAKFAST WENT HUNTING AND AT 12 RETURED HAVING BEEN UNSUCCESSFUL. AFTER DINNER READ POITICS TWO OR THREE HOURS AND STARTED HUNTING AGAIN....WAS UNSUCCESSFUL AGAIN...IT BEING LIKELY TO RAIN WENT TO THE HOUSE OF GEN. WORKMAN, TWO MILES FROM WHERE I STARTED. IT COMMENCED RAINING A FEW MINUTES AFTER MY ARIVAL THERE AT 6 O'CLOCK. I DETERMINED TO REMAIN ALL NIGHT. CHATTED AN HOUR WITH HIS DAUGHTER AND THREE OR FOUR WITH THE GEN. ON VARIOUS TOPICS. AT TEN WENT TO BED.

SUNDAY, AUGUST 19, 1832

AFTER BREAKFAST BID THE FAMILY ADEAU AND RETURNED TO THE HOUSE OF COL. MCPHERESON IN THE CAPACITY OF GALLANT TO MISS KITTY WORKMAN....WENT WITH HER TO HER AUNT'S A QUARTER OF A MILE BEYOND THE COL.'S .....GOT INTO THE COMPANY OF OTHER YOUNG LADIES & YOUNG MEN....PAID A VISIT TO AN APPLE ORCHARD ETC. AFTER 12 O'CLOCK LEFT MISS KITTY AND CAME HERE (COL. MCPHERESON'S) AND AFTER DINNER UNTIL NOW (6 O'CLOCK), HAVE BEEN ENGAGED IN READING A LETTER FROM, AND WRITING ONE TO JOSEPH MCCUTCHEN ESQ. ON THE SUBJECT OF LOST PAPERS AND MAKING OUT A BILL OF THE NUMBER OF FAMILIES AND PERSONS IN THE FAMILIES OF THE SENECAS & THE SHAWNEES OF LEWISTON AND ESTIMATING THE QUANTITIES OF PROVISIONS IT WOULD REQUIRE TO FURNISH THEM WITH RATIONS FOR FOUR DAYS.

MONDAY MORNING, AUGUST 20, 1832

AFTER BREAKFAST I HAD THE SINCERE PLEASURE OF SEEING MY UNCLE, MAJ. G.W. POOL, WHO WAS APPOINTED ASST. AGENT IN THE REMOVAL OF THE EMIGRATING INDIANS OF OHIO. HE CAME TO COL. MCPHERESON'S ON BUSINESS RELATING TO HIS DUTIES AS ASST. AGT. BY THE DIRECTION OF COL. J.B. GARDINER, THE SPECIAL AGENT & SUPERINTEDENT. THE CO. C. LIEUT. LANE, GEN. WORKMAN AND MYSELF AND OTHERS WERE JUST STARTING TO LEWISTON, WHERE RATIONS WERE TO BE PAID TO THE INDIANS, WHEN HE RODE UP...NOT WISHING TO DETAIN US HE WENT ALONG. HIS DISPOSITION IS REPRESENTED BY THOSE WHO ARE AQUAINTED WITH HIM AS BEING AMIABLE AND VIRTUOUS. HIS TALENTS ARE PROBABLY OF THE SECOND ORDER, IN COMPARISON WITH THE NUMBER OF FIVE. I REMAINED AT LEWISTON UNTIL ABOUT ONE O'CLOCK WHEN AT THE SOLISITATION OF MAJ. POOL WE LEFT THERE FOR THIS PLACE. (COL. MCPHERESON'S) WHERE I AM NOW BOARDING.

THIS MORNING BEFORE LEAVING FOR LEWISTON I BOUGHT AN INDIAN PONY, SADDLE, AND BRIDLE...PAID $30. FOR THE PONY, $10 FOR THE SADDLE, $1.50 FOR THE BRIDLE. FOR WHICH I GAVE A DUE BILL TO BE REDEEMED AS SOON AS I RECIEVED FROM THE DISBURSING AGT. MY FIRST MONTHLY PAYMENT FOR MY SERVICES AS ASST. CONDUCTOR TO COL. MCPHERESON.

I CONVERSED WITH POOL UNTIL IN THE EVENING WE BOTH COMMENCED WRITING....I WROTE A LETTER TO COZ. CAROLINE GARDINER BEFORE SUPPER, WHICH WAS AT 7 O'CLOCK. AFTER SUPPER UNTIL ONE O'CLOCK I WAS ENGAGED IN WRITING A LONG LETTER, OR AT LEAST COMMENCING ONE TO COL. J.B. GARDINER ON SUBJECTS RELATING TO THE EMIGRATION ETC. ETC. ONE O'CLOCK WENT TO BED.

TUESDAY, AUGUST 21, 1832

AFTER BREAKFAST WROTE SOME MORE IN MY LONG LETTER MAKING THE CONTENTS TO OCCUPY SEVEN PAGES OF CLOSELY WRITTEN FOOLSCAP PAPER! TEN O'CLOCK STARTED TO BELLEFONTAINE TO THE POST OFFICE REMAINED THERE UNTIL HALF PAST 12 WAITING FOR THE MAIL....PUT MY LETTERS IN THE OFFICE...RECEIVED ONE FROM COZ. HARRIET GARDINER COUCHED IN THE MOST AFFECTIONATE TERMS. RECIEVED ONE FROM UNCLE J.B.G. RELATING TO BUSINESS, ATTENDENT UPON THE EMIGRATION ETC. ONE O'CLOCK GOT A BOOK OF MUSTER ROLLS, WHICH UNCLE GW HAD BROUGHT OUT FOR THE OFFICERS ENGAGED IN THE REMOVAL, AND TWO SHIRTS WHICH HAD HAD MADE IN LEBANON AND A SILK VEST GIVEN ME BY UNCLE JAMES AND BROUGHT THEM HERE, WHERE I ARRIVED AT THREE O'CLOCK.

IN THE AFTENOON I COMMENCED MY "JOURNAL OF OCCURANCES" ACCORDING TO THE REQUISITION OF ONE CLAUSE IN THE PRINTED REGULATIONS. AFTER SUPPER HAD A LONG CONVERSATION WITH COL. MCPHERESON ON THE SUBJECT OF THE LAST WAR, AND THE INDIANS, & EMIGRATION OFFICERS, AND PROSPECTS OF DEPARTURE AND ROUTE BY LAND ETC. ETC. NINE O'CLOCK WENT TO BED.

WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 22, 1832

ATTENDED TO VARIOUS LITTLE JOBS OF ONE THIN G OR ANOTHER UNTIL DINNER. AFTER DINNER COPIED MUSTER ROLL...ETC. ETC. I HAVE FORGOTTEN WHAT EXCEPT READING & SINGING UNTIL FIVE O'CLOCK....FIVE O'CLOCK WENT OUT WITH SOME MEN AND TOOK A FEW ROUNDS OF SHOOTING AT A MARK. MY UNCLE HAVING COME THIS EVENING FROM BELLEFONTAINE...CHATTED WITH HIM UNTIL SUPPER. AFTER SUPPER WROTE A LONG LETTER TO W.B. SLAUGHTER. EIGHT O'CLOCK COMMENCED ONE TO BROTHER ALEXANDER...NINE O'CLOCK WENT TO BED.

THURSDAY, AUGUST 23, 1832

AFTER BREAKFAST FINISHED LETTER TO BROTHER ALECK, BEFORE NINE O'CLOCK. AFTER WHICH I SPENT AN HOUR OT TWO WITH THE INDIANS & OFFICERS OF EMIGRATION. THE FORMER WISHED THE LATTER TO ENDEAVOR TO SETTLE DISPUTE BETWEEN THE BIG SPRINGS INDIANS AND THE INDIANS OF THE GRAND RESERVATION. THOSE OF THE LATTER PLACE CLAIMING A SHARE IN THE PROCEEDS OF THE FORMERS TRACT OF LAND. WHICH IT IS THOUGHT IS UNJUST: AND THAT THEY HAVE NO RIGHT TO CLAIM ANY PART OR INTEREST IN IT WHATEVER. AFTER DINNER WROTE A LETTER TO MISS E.L. KNIGHT, A FEMALE FRIEND OF INDIANA. IN THE EVENING WROTE ANOTHER TO MY PARENTS, WHOM I HAD NEGLECTED WRITING TO FOR SIX OR SEVEN WEEKS, AND FROM WHOM I HAVE NOT RECIEVED A LETTER FROM SINCE I HAVE BEEN IN OHIO. (NINE WEEKS).

AFTER SUPPER FED MY HORSE ETC. AND WENT WITH COL. MCPHERESON INTO HIS STORE AND EXAMINED HIS GOODS FOR AN HOUR OR TWO WITH GEN. POOL. THE COL. HAS A FINE STOCK FOR A COUNTRY STORE.

FRIDAY MORNING, AUGUST 24, 1832

WROTE AN HOUR OR TWO AT COPYING MY VINDICATION. HALF PAST TEN WENT TO BELLEFONTAINE TO TAKE MY LETTER TO THE POST OFFICE AND TO GET MAIL. RECIEVED A LETTER FROM J.B. GARDINER INFORMING ME THAT I MUST TELL COL. MCPHERESON AND CAPT. ROBB, THE CONDUCTORS OF THE INDIANS, TO GIVE THEIR PERSONAL ATTENDANCETO THE ISSUING OF THE RATIONS TO THE INDIANS: AND THAT THEY MUST THEMSELVES MAKE PROVISION RETURNS; AND THAT NEITHER COL. MCPHERESON NOR MYSELF MUST GIVE THE DISBURSING AGT. A MUSTER ROLL OF OUR TRIBE, AS HE HAS NO RIGHT TO ASK FOR ONE, NOT TO RECEIVE ONE...AT TWO O'CLOCK RETURNED; DONE SOME LITTLE JOBS AND EXAMINED THE RIFLES WHICH WERE SENT TO THE INDIANSAND ARRIVED HERE TODAY...THE RIFLES FOR THE WAPAGHKONETTA (35 IN NUMBER) HAVE NOT YET ARRIVED. THE

THE SHEETING AND BLANKETS ALSO CAME TODAY.

THIS EVENING ATTENDED TO VARIOUS LITTLE CHORES AS THE YANKEES SAY. AT SEVEN O'CLOCK P.M. MR. VAN HORNE FROM THE "WIGWAM" GOT HERE HAVING COME ON EXPRESS FROM LEBANON BY PIQUA...CHATTED WITH HIM TILL NINE...WENT TO BED.

SATURDAY MORNING, AUGUST 25, 1832

WENT TO BELLEFONTAINE WITH VAN HORNE, WROTE A LETTER TO COZ. H.E. GARDINER. CHATTED AN HOUR WITH CAPT. ROTH THE CONDUCTOR & CALLED ON YOUNG LANE FOR MUSTER ROLL...I WAS TOLD I COULD NOT GET IT UNTIL HIS BROTHER THE LIEUT. CAME BACK FROM URBANA, WHETHER HE WENT TWO DAYS AGO....

ELEVEN O'CLOCK WENT WITH W.A. VAN HORNE EIGHT MILES ON HIS JOURNEY BACK TOWARDS SIDNEY & THEN RETURNED TO MCPHERESON'S, WHERE I ARRIVED AT TWELEVE O.C. MADE OUT THREE PROVISIONS RETURNS & COPY'D THEM; AND CORRECTED A MUSTER ROLL, AND IN THE EVENING WENT WITH UNCLE GEN. TO A CREEK, ONE MILE AND BATHED...RETURNED BEFORE SUPPER.

SUNDAY, AUGUST 26, 1832

READ "THE SPECTATOR", POLITICS ETC. CHATTED UPON AND ABOUT THE VARIOUS DUTIES OF THE OFFICERSOF THE EMIGRATING INDIANS AND CERTIFIED TWO PROVISION RETURNS ON GEN. WORKMAN BEFORE DINNER. AFTER DINNER READ "THE SPECTATOR", SUNG AND WALKED TWO OR THREE MILES BEFORE SUPPER...AT EIGHT WROTE SOME MORE IN MY VIN. TEN O'CLOCK WENT TO BED.

MONDAY, AUGUST 27, 1832

AFTER BREAKFAST, CONCLUDED COPYING MY VIN. I WENT TO BELLEFONTAINE...GAVE MY VIN DICATION TO ED. BEL. GAZETTE & TOOK LETTER FORM THE COL. FOR LIEUT. LANE WHO HAS NOT YET RETURNED FROM URBANA, WHERE HE WENT LAST THURSDAY...HE IS LOOKED FOR IN TWO OR THREE DAYS.

2 O'CLOCK RETURNED...READ BELLEFONTAINE GAZZETTE FOR AN HOUR OR TWO READ POETRY (ORIGINAL) BY DAN. TWO LINES WERE THROUGH MISTAKE LEFT OUT. 4 O'CLOCK WALKED FOR AN HOUR RETURNED & CHATTED ABOUT THE EMIGRATION...WAS TOLD BY A. THOMPSON THAT IT WAS REPORTED IN URBANA THAT GARDINER HAD BEEN ENDEAVORING WITH OTHERS IN THIS NEIGHBORHOOD TO PREVENT THE INDIANS FROM GOING BY WATER AS WAS THE WISH OF THE PRESIDENT OF THE U.S. AND THE SECRETARY OF WAR...AND THAT LANE WAS A GREAT FAVORITE THERE. FROM WHAT A.L. SAID, I HAVE DRAWN THE CONCLUSION THAT LANE (WHO HAS NO MORE BUSINESS TO MEDDLE HIMSELF IN ESTABLISHING THE ROUTE OR MODE OF TRANSPORTATION THAN THE MAN IN THE MOON) WISHES THEM TO GO BY WATER THAT HE MAY STAY AT CINCINNATI AND ACT GENTLEMAN AND ENTRUST ONE OF HIS COMMISSIONERS WITH SUFFICIENT FAVOR FOR A STIPULATED TIME UNTIL HE, LANE, CAN REMIT MORE ETC. ETC. AND THAT HE DOES NOT LIKE GARDINERAND BY MISREPRESENTING ETC., IS ENDEAVORING TO INJURE HIM AS MUCH AS HE CAN, OR NEARLY SO.

A.L. SAID THAT THE LIEUT. (HE UNDERSTOOD) HAD TOLD SOMEBODY AT URBANA THAT HE HAD THE WHOLE CONTROL AND SUPERINTENDANCE OF THE REMOVAL OF THE EMIGRANTS!!! HE HAS SAID BEFORE THAT IT IS DISCRETIONARY WITH HIM WHETHER HE WILL FURNISH MORE THAN TWO WEEKS WORTH OF PROVISIONS FOR THE INDIANS, OR A REQUISITION FOR SPECIAL AGT. HUPERDT UNTIL THEY ACTUALLY COMMENCE THEIR JOURNEY!!! I HAVE SAID THE IS BECAUSE I BELIEVE THAT LANE HAS BEEN MEDDLING WITH BUSINESSES WHICH IS DISHONORABLE IN HIM AND DETRIMENTAL OR PREJUDICAL TO THE CHARACTERS OF OTHER MEN.

8 O'CLOCK WROTE FOR HALF AN HOUR, READ PORCUPINE, AND WENT TO BED AT 10...AFTER HAVING WROTE IN MY JOURNAL OF OCCURANCES.

TUESDAY, AUGUST 28, 1832

WROTE A LETTER TO COUSIN LUCY M. GARDINER. 10 O'CLOCK MADE TWO PROVISION RETURNS FOR COL. MC. 11 O'CLOCK, STARTED TO LEWSITON WITH COL. MCPHERESON, LIEUT. LANE AND OTHERS TO INSPECT THE ISSUING OF RATIONS AND AT THREE ARRIVED HOME...READ POLITICS AND "THE SPECTATOR" ETC., UNTIL BED TIME (10:00)

WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 29, 1832

AFTER BREAKFAST READ "THE SPECTATOR" AND POLITICS UNTIL DINNER...1 O'CLOCK WROTE A FEW VERSES OF POETRY ON THE SUBJECT OF LEAVING OHIO, WHICH OCCUPIED ME UNTIL 2 OR 3 O'CLOCK. (AFTER A SEVERE WIND AND RAIN STORM) SHOT AT A MARK WITH MR. CAVALIER FROM URBANA WHO CAME HERE THIS EVENING. AFTER SUPPER WROTE FOR HALF AN HOUR AND THEN COMMENCED READING "THE SPECTATOR". TODAY MAJOR POOL STARTED TO WASSAGHKONETTA, WITH AN INTERPRETOR TO SEE HOW THINGS COME ON THERE.

THURSDAY, AUGUST 30, 1832

AFTER BREAKFAST HAD A HEADACHE READ "THE SPECTATOR" UNTIL TEN. WENT HUNTING SOME PLUMS A MILE & A QUARTER, 12 O'CLOCK FOUND SEVERAL TREES LOADED WITH THEM...GATHEREDA GALLON, WENT TO A FINE SHADY TRUNK IN A PLEASANT GROVE IN A SMALL PRARIE & FEASTED FOR SOMETIME...HALF PAST 1 O'CLOCK RETURNED, DINED...READ "THE SPECTATOR"& LOOKED AT AND ADMIRED SOME YOUNG SQUAWS IN MCPHERESON'S STORE. 5 O'CLOCK MAJ. POOL & LIEUT. LANE RETURNED FROM WASSAGHKONETTA INTERPRETOR LANE. HALF PAST 5 HEAD ACHED SO VIOLENTLY THAT I WENT TO SLEEP UNTIL 7...7 O'CLOCK SUPPED WITH AN EXCELLENT APPITITE BUT A MISERABLE HEAD. HALF PAST 7 WENT TO BED

MONDAY, AUGUST 31, 1832

READ & MADE DUPLICATE PROVISION RETURNS, WROTE LETTER TO J.B. GARDINER. 11 O'CLOCK STARTED TO LEWISTON TO INSPECT THE ISSUING OF RATIONS. IT WASSATISFACTOILY DONE. 6 O'CLOCK RETURNED...CHATTED WITH W. JOHNSON FROM PIQUA UNTIL 8 O'CLOCK READ "THE SPECTATOR" UNTIL 9...WROTE AN HOUR & A HALF WENT TO BED.

Daniel Dunihue Diary, September 1832

SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 1, 1832

AFTER BREAKFAST READ "THE SPECTATOR" UNTIL 9 O'CLOCK. AT 9 COMMENCED MAKING AN ISSUING ROLL FOR THE SENECAS & SHAWNEE INDIANS OF LEWISTON & AT 4 O'CLOCK P.M. FINISHED IT. HALF PAST 4 STARTED WITH MAJ. POOL PLUMBS AND ONE & A QUARTER MILES...GOT SOME...RETURNED AT 6...WAS TOLD THAT THREE DEER WERE SEEN IN THE ROAD ABOUT THREE HUNDRED YARDS....TOOK A GUN AND POOL TOOK ANOTHER & WE WENT TO TRY AND KILL SOME OF THEM....WE SEPERATED & HE RETURNED ABOUT SUNSET WITHOUT KILLING OR EVEN SEEING ONE OF THEM! BUT I RETURNED AT DUSK LOADED WITH .....DISSAPPOINTMENT AND THE RIFLE!! WHAT WONDERFUL LUCK!...WHO WOULD HAVE SUPPOSED THAT I, THOUGHNESS (?) DAN, WOULD HAVE KILLED A DEER? BUT IT IS IMPOSSIBLE TO FORSEE OUR DESTINY. THE BEST OF IT WAS (I MEAN FOR MAJ. POOL) WHEN I RETURNED SUPPER WAS JUST FINISHED AND I HAD TO PICK THE BONES!! WROTE IN MY JOURNAL OF OCCURANCES, READ & WROTE UNTIL 10 O'CLOCK THEN WENT TO BED.

SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 2, 1832

READ UNTIL 9...AT 10 STARTED TO CAMPMEETING ( 8 MILES) AT HALF PAST 11 ARRIVED THERE...COMPANIONS WERE MAJ. POOL & J.W. BENNETT, TWO PRETTY LIVELY COLTS. WE REMAINED UNTIL 2 WHEN POOL AND MYSELF STARTED HOME. WE TOOK SO MANY WRONG ROADS THAT WE WERE THREE OR FOUR HOURS IN RETURNING ALTHOUGH WE RODE AT THE RATE OF SIX NOTS PER HOUR. POOL POOR FELLOW, TORE HIS PANTS MOST SORELY, WHICH WAS A SOURCE OF MUCH DISTRESS AS WE WERE COMPELLED TO PASS SEVERAL HOUSES AND A GOODLY NUMBER OF PEOPLE BEFORE WE ARRIVED AT COL. MCPHERESON'S. AT FIVE WE GOT HERE.

SINCE COMING HOME I HAVE UNTIL THIS TIME (8 O'CLOCK)BEEN VARIOUSLY ENGAGED....READING, WRITING, IDLING ETC...I DID INTEND GOING TONIGHT TO THE FEAST OF THE INDIANS CALLED THE FEAST OF THE DEAD, OR DEATH FEAST, WHERE IT IS THEIR CUSTOM TO RECITE THE GOOD QUALITIES OF THEIR DECEASED BRETHREN AND MUTALLY AND UNDISQUIETLY EXPRESS THEIR SORROW FOR THEIR LOSSES IN TEARS AND LAMENTATIONS. TO FEAST AND OFFER UP SACRIFICES FOR THE PEACE OF THEIR DEPARTED SPIRITS AND TO CONCILLIATE THE GREAT SPIRIT FOR ANY MISDEEDS WHICH HAD BEEN COMMITTED IN THE LIFE TIME OF THE DECEASED AND TO INSURE HIS ADMITTANCE TO THE RICH AND VALUABLE HUNTING GROUNDS TO WHICH THEY BELIEVE ALL GOOD MEN GO WHEN THEY SHUFFLE OFF MORTALITY. THEY ADOPT SOME PERSON IN THE TRIBE IN HIS STEAD IN ORDER TO PERPETUATE THE MEMORY OF HIS DEEDS, AND BRING TO THEIR RECOLLECTION HIS WORTH AND LOSSES. THIS FEAST (I BELIEVE) IS ONLY CELEBRATED WHEN THE NATION LEAVES THE PLACE WHERE ITS RESIDENCE HAS BEEN AND ITS DEAD DEPOSITED. READ UNTIL HALF PAST 10.

MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 3, 1832

READ UNTIL 10 IN ANCIENT HISTORY. AT 10 COL. B. GARDINER ARRIVED AND SENT FOR THE CHIEFS AND OTHER MEN OF THE INDIANS TO COME AND RECEIVE THEIR BALNKETS, GUNS, & TENTING...AND STARTED HIS _____?. MAJ. POOL & THE CONDUCTOR ROBB, TO WASSAGHKONETTA TO ATTEND TO THE OTTOWAS & SHAWNEES.

11 O'CLOCK ASSISSTED TO MEASURE & PACK SOME OF THE SHEETING AND TO OPEN & COUNT THE BLANKETS.

1 O'CLOCK COPIED, DUPLICATED RECIEPT OF THE GOODS TO BE SIGNED BY THE INDIANS, WHICH THEY DID AND WHICH I AMONG OTHERS, WITNESSED...CHATTED AN HOUR OR TWO...RECEIVED A LONG LETTER FROM COZ. LUCY M. BY COL. GARDINER. IN THE EVENING READ MY VINDICATION IN THE BELLEFONTAINE GAZETTE...FOUND SEVERAL MISTAKES IN IT. IT WAS SPURNED BY SOME AND APPLAUDED BY OTHERS. READ JACKSON & CLAY NEWS UNTIL 9 O'CLOCK WROTE IN MY JOURNAL OF OCCURANCES AND WENT TO BED AT 10.

TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 4, 1832

BEFORE BREAKFAST ASSISTED TO COUNT, PACK & UNPACK THE BLANKETS, & SHEETING ETC. OF THE SHAWNEES OF WASSAGHKONETTA. & O'CLOCK COPIED A REQUISITION ON LIEUT. LANE FOR HORSES & WAGONS TO CONVEY THE GOODS TO THE SHAWNEES & OTTOWAS AT WASSAGHKONETTA. 8 O'CLOCK WROTE DUPLICATE PROVISION RETURNS FOR 252 PERSONS, FOR THREE DAYS. 9 O'CLOCK WROTE A LETTER TO COZ. HARRIET E. GARDINER. 11 O'CLOCK STARTED TO LEWISTOWN TO SUPERINTEND THE ISSUING OF RATIONS TO THE INDIANS. 12 O'CLOCK ARRIVED THERE....WAS COMPELLED TO DELAY TWO HOURS IN CONSEQUENCE OF THE BEEVES GETTING INTO THE WOODS AND HAVING TO BE DROVE UP BEFORE SLAUGHTERING....1 O'CLOCK EXCHANGED MY INDIAN PONY WITH THE WIDOW TURTLE FOR ANOTHER HORSE. SHE PREFERRED MINE BECAUSE HE WAS GENTLE AND HERS WAS NOT. I GOT HER CHOICE MARE. SHE TOOK MINE. 2 O'CLOCK COMMENCED INPSECTING THE ISSUES; WHICH LASTED UNTIL 5 O'CLOCK. RETURNED TO COL. MCPHERESON'S. RECEIVED LETTER FROM BROTHER ALEXANDER, WHO WROTE FROM BEDFORD IND. ON THE 27TH AUG. ___ ALL WELL BUT HIMSELF. HAD AN INTRODUCTION TO BENJIMAN BRIGGS APPRAISOR OF PROPERTY. 7 O'CLOCK WROTE A RECOMMENDATION FOR JOHN DOUGHERTY, AN INDIAN, TO A SADDLER IN BELLEFONTAINE. 8 O'CLOCK WROTE IN MY DAILY JOURNAL OF OCCURANCE. 9 O'CLOCK WROTE A FEW STANZAS OF POETRY UNTIL 10. HALF PAST 10 WENT TO BED.

WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 5, 1832

COPIED A PETITION TO GOV. MCARTHUR FROM CIVIL JOHN, THE PRINCIPAL CHIEF OF THE SENECAS & SHAWNEE INDIANS OF LEWISTOWN, OHIO, WRITING HIM (THE GOV.) TO LIBERATE AN INDIAN, WHO IS NOW IN THE PENITENTIARY AT COLUMBUS, THAT HE MAY GO WITH HIS TRIBE TO THEIR LANDS AT THE MOUTH OF THE KANSAS RIVER. 9 O'CLOCK J.B.G. STARTED TO WAPPAGHKONETTA IN COMPANY WITH MR. B. BRIGGS, THE APPRAISER OF THE PROPERTY OF THE SHAWNEE OF THAT PLACE. READ UNTIL 11:00. 11 STARTED TO TOWN (BELLEFONTAINE) WITH COL.MCPHERSON, TO GET MY HORSE SHOD AND TO TAKE SOME INSTRUCTIONS TO LIEUT. LANE FROM J.B. GARDINER. 2 O'CLOCK RETURNED ____ NOW ANCIENT HISTORY TIL 4. WENT A MILE AND A QUARTER TO GATHER SOME PLUMBS ___ 6 RETURNED. READ AND TALKED POLITICS UNTIL 9....THEN WENT TO BED.

THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 6, 1832

ENGAGED IN READING UNTIL 8:00 A.M. COMMENCED MAKING ISSUING ROLLS, AT WHICH I CONTINUED UNTIL 3:00 P.M.....TOOK A LIST OF THE PROPERTY WHICH THE INDIANS BROUGHT TO BE SOLD WHICH OCCUPIED ME UNTIL SUPPER (6 O'CLOCK)

COL. B.J. GARDINER RETURNED FROM WASSAGHKONETTA WHERE HE LEFT ALL THINGS IN ORDER, AFTER FINDING THEM VERY MUCH DERANGED WHEN HE WENT THERE ON WEDNESDAY. 7 O'CLOCK STARTED TO BELLEFONTAINE UNDER THE DIRECTION TO SEE LIEUT. LANE & COL. MCELVAINE & TO BRING A COMMUNICATION FROM THE SEC. OF WAR _____ 9 RETURNED AND WENT TO BED.

FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 7, 1832

6 O'CLOCK IN THE MORNING STARTED TO BELLEFONTAINE TO SEE COL. MCELVAINE & LIEUT. LANE; TO TELL THEM TO COME TO COL. MCPHERESON'S BY 9...AND TAKING A REQUISITION TO LANE TO FURNISH AN EXPENSES (?) TO GO TO DETROIT. 8 O'CLOCK COMMENCED MAKING AN ISSUING ROLL FINISHED AT 9...10 MADE OUT PROVISION RETURN ETC. ETC. AT 11 STARTED TO LEWISTOWN TO SUPERINTEND THE ISSUING OF 1016 RATIONS TO THE INDIANS. COL. MCPHERESON DID NOY ACCOMPANY ME: HE WAS ENGAGED WHEN WE LEFT HIS HOUSE. TODAY MARTIN LANE STARTED TO MCCUTCHENSVILLE TO SEE HIS FAMILY ON THE SANDUSKY. AND JAS. WORKMAN STARTED TODAY AS AN (?) TO GOV. CASS AT DETROIT. 6 O'CLOCK RETURNED...WATERED & FED HORSE ETC. WROTE HALF AN HOUR, IDLIED A LITTLE UNTIL 8 O'CLOCK. I AM HOWEVER GOING TO READ AND WRITE & STUDY UNTIL BED TIME (10 O'CLOCK).

SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 8, 1832

IN THE MORNING READ THE PRINTED REGULATIONS OF THE WAR DEPARTMENT AND DIGESTED THE RULES THERE CONTAINED FOR THE GOVERNMENT OF ALL THE OFFICERS ATTACHED TO THE EMIGRATION. 9 O'CLOCK READ ANCIENT HISTORY. 12 O'CLOCK COMMENCED COPYING SEVERAL REQUISITIONS MADE BY J.B.G. UPON LIET. LANE, DIS. AGT. FOR WAGONS, PROVISIONS, HOSPITAL STORES ETC. 6 O'CLOCK STARTED TO BELLEFONTAINE WITH THEM. 9 O'CLOCK RETURNED & WROTE IN MY JOURNAL OF OCC. & IN THIS THING.

SUNDAY, SEPTMEBER 9, 1832

READ IN "THE FLOWERS OF ANCIENT HISTORY" UNTIL 7 O'CLOCK. CHATTED UNTIL 9 & COPIED INSTRUCTIONS TO COL. MCPHERESON FROM J.B GARDINER. AT 9 COL. GARDINER LEFT HERE FOR WAPPAGHKONETTA. READ UNTIL 12, WROTE A LETTER TO LIEUT. LANE & IDLED AN HOUR OR TWO. 3 O'CLOCK HAD THE EXUISITE PLEASURE OOF GETTING A SQUINT AT THE BEAUTIOUS MISS. KITTY WORKKMAN. CHATTED ONE QUARTER OF A MINUTE WITH HER AND THEN READ THE SPEC. AND ANC. HISTORY & SUNG FOR A FEW HOURS. AT FIVE CONVERSED WITH COL. VAN HORNE OF PIQUA WHO HAD COME HERE TO GET A SITUATION FOR HIS SON WILLIAM IN THE EMIGRATION OF J.B.G.____. HE LEFT HERE FOR WAPPAGHKONETTA AT 7 O'CLOCK. HALF PAST 7 WROTE SOME VERSES ON DELAYISM. 8 O'CLOCK TOLD GEN. MCLANE HOW TO MAKE SNOW BREAD AND HE TOLD ME HOW TO MAKE SNOW SOAP....I WILL INSERT THE RECIPE HERE FOR FEAR THAT I SHALL FORGET IT. TAKE 8 CUPS SNOW & 1 CUP SOAP, BOIL THEM TOGETHER FOR 6 HOURS...YOU WILL HAVE 8 CUPS OF WHITE SOAP...LIKE BUTTER. YOU MAY CUT IT IN SQUARES OR CAKES. IT IS A YANKEE INVENTION!! READ ANCIENT HISTORY UNTIL 10. WENT TO BED.

MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 10, 1832

BEFORE BREAKFAST WROTE A LETTER FRO COL. MCPHERESON TO LIEUT. LANE IN BELLEFONTAINE, OHIO. AFTER BREAKFAST MADE OR RATHER RULED A MONTHLY ABSTRACT OF PROVISIONS, WHICH OCCUPIED ME UNTIL 11 O'CLOCK. THEN TOOK A LIST OF WHAT PROPERTY THE INDIANS DELIVERED FOR SALE. (BOUGHT PR. OF MOCCASINS). AT 3 O'CLOCK COMMENCED A QUARTERLY ABSTRACT OF PROVISIONS WHICH OCCUPIED ME UNTIL SUPPER. AFTER WHICH I CORRECTED ONE OF MY ISSUING ROLLS, WROTE IN MY JOURNAL OF OCCURANCES, MY DIARY & @(?). IT IS NOW PAST 7 P.M. HALF PAST NINE ?I CONCLUDED A LONG LETTER TO COZ. LUCY. READ HALF AN HOUR IN FLOWERS OF ANCIENT HISTORY, THEN WENT TO BED.

TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 11, 1832

AFTER BREAKFAST WROTE A LETTER OF THREE PAGES TO ALECK. CORRECTED ISSUING ROLL. 11 O'CLOCK SENT MY LETTERS TO BELLEFONTAINE AND STARTED TO LEWISTOWN WITH COL. MCPHERESON TO INSPECT THE ISSUING OF PROVISIONS TO THE INDIANS. REMAINED THERE UNTIL HALF PAST FOUR THEN STARTED HOME. TOLD THE INDIANS TO ASSEMBLE TODAY AND START NEXT SUNDAY.

RECEIVED LETTER FORM COZ. CAROLINE L.G....THERE WAS THREE OR FOUR LETTERS TO COL. J.B.G. WHICH I TOOK THE LIBERTY OF BREAKING OPEN TO SEE THE CONTENTS OF....TWO REPORTED THAT THE EXPENSES INCURRED IN THE REMOVAL OF THE OHIO INDIANS UNDER CHARGE OF COL. GARDINER, MUST NOT EXCEED $20 PER HEAD! IT CANNOT COST LESS THAN THIRTY IF ONE HALF THE STORIES TOLD BY THOSE WHO KNOW SOMETHING OF THIS BUSINESSARE CORRECT. CONVERSED A LITTLE WITH COL. MC. ON THAT SUBJECT. 8 O'CLOCK CHATTED WITH GEN. JERRY M. LINE FOR AN HOUR. 9 WROTE IN MY JOURNAL OF OCCURANCES THE PROCEEDINGS OF THE DAY, AND IN THIS THING. READ ANCIENT HISTORY UNTIL 11 THEN WENT TO BED.

WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 12, 1832

WROTE A LETTER ENCLOSING SOME VERSES TO H.B. STROTHER. 10 STARTED TO BELLEFONTAINE UNDER THE DIRECTION OF COL. MCPHERESON, TO TELL LIEUT. LANE THAT HE (THE COL.) COULD NOT RECEIVE THE HORSES BELONGING TO THE LEWISTOWN INDIANS UNTIL THE SPECIAL AGENT SHOULD RETURN....AND TO GET 15.87 CASH FROM LANE DUE TO MCPHERESON. 11 O'CLOCK SAW LIUET. LANE ___ ATTENDED TO AND ACCOMPANIED MY BUSINESSES WITH HIM. HE REQUESTED THAT I SHOULD REMAIN A LITTLE LONGER ___ I DID SO. HE MADE GEO. GO OUT AND FASTEN THE DOOR. HE THEN TOLD ME THAT HE HAD BEEN GREVIOUSLY MISTAKEN IN THE MANNER IN WHICH HE WAS TREATED BY GARDINER....THAT HE HAD THAT GENTLEMAN TO BE HIS FRIEND. TAHT HE HAD HEARD FROM MEN WHO ARE ENTITLED TO THE GREATEST RESPECT SAY THAT GARDINER HAD SPOKEN OF LANE IN TERMS SILIMAR TO THE FOLLOWING....."HE IS A YOUNG FOP; WHO KNOWS NOTHING ABOUT BUSINESS MORE THAN THE MAN ON THE MOON. HE THINKS THAT HE MUST BE CONSIDERED A BIG MAN HERE ___ I'LL SHOW HIM WHO IS THE BIG MAN ___ I'LL HAVE HIS COMMISSARIES AND HIS ASST. TEAM (?) GO HOME AGAIN ETC. ETC." AND THAT LETTERS WERE COMING IN FROM ALL QUARTERS TELLING HIM THAT HE HAD BEEN SLANDERED/AND TO CAP ALL ONE FROM BILLY WILY CONTAINING A HORRIBLE CARICATURE ___ AND ALL THE VILE EPITHATS WHICH HIS FERTILE IMAGINATION COULD RAISE. HE SAID HE MUST HAVE AN EXPLAINATION FROM GARDINER ____ I ABOUT HALF PROMISED TO TELL GARDINER (AS HE WISHED ME TO DO).

3 O'CLOCK ARRIVED AT THE COL.'S . READ AWHILE, CHATTED A WHILE...AT 5 O'CLOCK STARTED TO GET SOME PLUMBS...QUARTER PAST 6 RETURNED....GARDINER HAD COME BACK FROM WASSAGHKONETTA ABOUT HALF SMASHED AND IN A CRABBED HUMOUR...& GAVE ME AND COL. MC A CONFOUNDED SCOLDING FOR NOT HAVING THE INDIANS ASSEMBLED (?)....IN THE MORNING HE WILL HAVE THE MATTER EXPLAINED THEN HE WILL COOL DOWN AND BE MORE MODERATE. ___ READ "FLOWERS OF ANCIENT HISTORY" UNTIL 9 O'CLOCK....THEN WENT TO BED.

THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 13, 1832

RECEIVED DIRECTIONS FROM J.B.G. TO HAVE THE INDIANS ASSEMBLED AT COL. MCPHERSON'S TODAY. SENT THE INTERPRETOR AMONG THEM TO INFORM THEM OF THE WISH OF THE SUPERINTENDANT. FROM BREAKFAST UNTIL 8 O'CLOCK I WAS FLYING AROUND LIKE A HALF SLEDGE AMONG STUMPS, ATTENDING TO J.B.G., WHO WAS QUITE UNWELL WITH A FEVER CREATED BY OVER EXERTION, OVER EXCITMENT AND OVER TEMPORIZING....9 O'CLOCK COPIED AN ACCOUNT OF JOS. MCCUTCHIN ON THE U.S. INCURRED INTAKING THE CHIEFS & HEAD MEN OF THE WYANDOTTE INDIANS TO HOLD A COUNCIL WITH COL.S MCELVAINE & GARDINER RESPECTING AN IMPROPER AND UNJUST CLAIMMADE BY THE GRND RESERVATION PARTY OF INDIANS. 10 TO 1 O'CLOCK DONE LITTLE ERRANDS FOR COL. J.B.G. & ASSISTED COL. MC. AND IDLED UNTIL 3. (AND ATTENDED TO THE SALE OF THE INDIAN PROPERTY WHICH WAS SOLD TODAY) HALF PAST THREE STARTED WITH COL. MCPHERSON TO EXAMINE & BRING HOME, TWENTY HORSES, PURCHASED BY LIET. LANE DISTRICT ACT. UNDER REQUISITION FROM J.B.G FOR THE INDIANS OF LEWISTOWN. HAD AN INTRODUCTION TO MR. BRISH THE PERSON WHO WAS SUPERINTENDANT OF EMIGRATING PARTY OF INDIANS WHICH STARTED FOR THE MOUTH OF THE NEOSHO LAST AUTUMN AND NEVER GOT THERE UNTIL THIS SUMMER....AND AN INTRODUCTION TO MR. MERRITT, A YOUNG GENTLEMAN WHO WAS ALONG WITH CAPT. BRISH AS ASSTANT.

WE PROCEEDED THROUGH BELLEFONTAINE FROM WHICH PLACE LIEUT. LANE ACCOMPANIED US TO THE FARM ON WHICH THE TWENTY HORSES WERE KEPT (ABOUT A MILE FROM THAT PLACE). THE COL. SELECTED TWENTY AND HE AND MYSELF AND ANOTHER PERSON BROUGHT FIVE HOME....THE REST OF THE TWENTY WERE PUT IN A SEPARATE PASTURE FROM THE OTHER HORSES....ON OUR RETURN WE EAT SUPPER FOR THE FIRST MEAL TODAY!

CHATTED WITH GARDINER, MCPHERESON, M. LANE & OTHERS UNTIL 9 O'COLOCK. THEN WROTE THIS. 10 O'CLOCK WENT TO BED.

FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 14, 1832

5 O'CLOCK AROSE AND PREPARED TO START FOR THE HORSES WHICH WERE PURCHASED FOR THIS DETACHMENT. I WAS UP SEVERAL TIMES IN THE NIGHT TO ATTEN APON GARDINER.

6 O'CLOCK STARTED FOR THE HORSES IN COMPANY WITH COL. MC. & MARTIN LANE THE INTERPRETOR. GOT THEM AND AT 9 RETURNED. 10 O'CLOCL WROTE A LETTER TO WM. VANGLOREN TO TELL HIM TO COME OUT AND JOIN THE DETACHMENT AND ACCOMPANY IT AS CLERK OR SECRETARY TO GARDINER.

HALF PAST 11 STARTED TO LEWISTOWN WITH COL. MC. TO SUPERINTEND THE ISSUING OF RATIONS TO THE INDIANS. AT HALF PAST 6 RETURNED....WROTE IN MY JOURNAL OF OCCURANCES AND IN THIS MEMORANDUM. HALF PAST NINE WENT TO BED.

SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 15, 1832

IN THE MORNING WROTE FOR J.B.G. A LONG LETTER OF INSTRUCTIONS TO CAPT. DAVID ROBB, THE CONDUCTOR OF THE SHAWNEE INDIANS OF WAPPAGHKONETTA.

RECEIVED ON OF THE MOST FLAGRANT INSULTS WHICH IT HAS EVER BEEN MY LOT TO HEAR....AND THAT TOO FROM ONE WHOM I HAVE ALWAYS PAID THE UTMOST RESPECT. WHAT UNDER THE SUN CAUSED IT I COULD NOT AT THE MOMENT GUESS. I PASSED IT BY WITHOUT SAYING A WORD...MY SITUATION WAS HEPLESS AS TO A REMEDY....I KNOW IT WAS UNMERITED.

8 O'CLOCK WROTE AND COPIED VARIOUS REQUISITIONS AND AT TEN RECEIVED AN ACCOUNT TO COPY BY HIM WHO HAD SO INJURED ME! I DONE IT WITHOUT A MURMUR....I SHALL PROBABLY NEVER SAY ANYTHING ABOUT THE MATTER OF HIS TREATING ME SO UNGENEROUSLY. HE IS UNABLE IN MY OPINION, OF APPRECIATING THE VIRTUE OF KEEPING GOODNESS & RESPECT IN VIEW AND NEVER FAULTERING IN THE PURSUIT OF DUTY.

REC'D A CERTIFICATE TO COL. J.B.G. TO MY SITUATION IN THE EMIGRATING PARTY (AS ALSO HIS CERTIFICATESTO THOSE COL. MCPHERESON & H.H. MCPHERESON, ALL OF WHICH I COPIED) AND AT 11 O'CLOCK PROCEEDED TO BELLEFONTAINE TO RECEIVE MY PER DIEM WAGES FROM THE 12TH JULY UNTIL SEPT. 1ST, 1832, BEING IN ALL, TOTAL 150 DOLLARS....GOT HORSE SHOD....EXAMINED TENTS AND MARQUEES (?) WHICH LIEUT. LANE IS GETTING MADE FOR THE OFFICERS WHO ARE PREPARING TO ACCOMPANY THE EMIGRATING NATIVES OF THIS COUNTY (LOGAN) AND THOSE OF ALLEN. CHATTED WITH VARIOUS PERSONS UNTIL FOUR O'CLOCK....STARTED HOME.

AT HALF PAST 5 RECEIVED FORM ANOTHER PERSON (A WOMAN) AN INSULTING SPEACH WHICH I AM SORRY TO SAY, SURPASSED ANYTHING IN POIGNANCY WHICH I HAVE EVER FELT FROM WHAT THE FAIR SEX HAVE EVER SAID TO ME. I BORE IT LIKE A MAN WITHOUT A MURMUR. I NEVER WAS SO MUCH SURPRISED AND MORTIFIED AT ANY EVENT THAT I RECOLLECT OF , SINCE I FIRST SAW THE SHINING SUN OF HEAVEN.

7 O'CLOCK WROTE ABOUT THREE PAGES UPPON A CERTAIN SUBJECT NOT VERY FAR AT VARIANCE YOU MAY IMAGINE, FROM THE PROCEEDINGS OF SOME PART OF THIS DAY. AT 8 O'CLOCK CHATTED WITH GARDINER, M. LANE UNTIL 10 O'CLOCK. THEN WENT TO BED.

SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 16, 1832

AFTER BREAKFAST PAID COL. MCPHERESON FOR A HORSE, SADDLE & BRIDLE WHICH I BOUGHT OF HIM ABOUT TWO WEEKS AGO, AND GAVE A DUE BILL FOR....I HAVE NOT SEEN THE DUE BILL SINCE I PAID THE COL. IT CALLS FOR FORTY ONE DALLARS AND FIFTY CENTS....WHETHER HE (THE COL.) INTENDS GIVING IT TO ME OR NOT I DO NOT KNOW....IT IS NOW 12 O'CLOCK....TIME WILL SHOW THAT MATTER. 9 O'CLOCK ASORTED MY PAPERS, AND PACKED MY CLOTHES ETC. IN MY TRUNK....READY FOR A START....10 O'CLOCK ASSISTED TO RAISE A MARQUEE WHICH WAS MADE FOR THE OFFICERS OF THIS DETACHMENT. CHATTED, IDLED UNTIL 3 O'CLOCK. STARTED INTO THE WOODS AND GATHERED SOME PLUMBS....RETURNED AT 5. REC'D ANOTHER INSULT IN PRESENCE OF GEN. WORKMAN, HIS SON-IN-LAW, FROM MC....UPON WHICH I (WHEN THE OPPURTUNITY ACCURRED A FEW MINUTES AFTERWARDS) FOLLOWED HIM INTO HIS STORE AND TOLD HIM THAT, AS HE HAD BECOME VERY ANGRY AT ME FOR SOMETHING WHICH I COULD NOT DIVINE, I WOULD PREFER HIM GIVING ME THE DUE-BILL WHICH I HAD GIVEN HIM FOR THE HORSE, SADDLE & BRIDLE, WHCIH I HAD PURCHASED OF HIM. AS I THOUGHT IT BEST THAT THESE THINGS (AS HE SAYS) SHOULD BE PERFECTLY UNDERSTOOD AND KEPT STRAIGHT. AFTER CHATTING WITH HIM UPON THE SUBJECT, WHICH RELATED TO THE EMIGRATION, FOR A SHORT TIME AND AS NEARLY AS I CAN RECOLLECT, IN A TONE WHICH DID JUSTICE TO MY FEELINGS (AS A REPRESENTATIVE), I LEFT HIM.....IN ABOUT HALF AN HOUR HE GOT THE KEY TO HIS STRONG BOX AND TOOK OUT A CAREFULLY TIED PACKET OF PAPERS AND SELECTED FROM AMONGST THEM THE ONE WHICH RELATED TO MYSELF....HE HANDED IT TO ME WITHOUT A WORD....AND PROBABLY WITHOUT A LOOK....BUT I BELIEVE NOT WITHOUT A THOUGHT. I NOW FEEL SAFE FROM THAT SOURCE...MY SMALL FEELINGS OF DOUBT FOR HIS HONESTY MAY BE INCORRECT, BUT IF THEY ARE I AM MISTAKEN.

THE SAME MAN TONIGHT DISGUSTED J.B.G. WITH HIS UNMANNERLY AND OVERBEARING DIPORTMENT AND HIS IGNORANCE OF DECORUM, POLITNESS OR & JUSTICE. IT IS THE OPINION OF ONE IN THE EMIGRATING PARTY THAT HE WILL BE DISMISSED AND THAT HE WILL CLAIM HIS PERDIEM WAGES FORM THE DATE OF HIS APPOINTMENT ALTHOUGH HE DOES NOT ACCOMPANY THE EMIGRANTS, AND HAS NOT YET DONE ANYTHING TO GET THE INDIANS OFF....AND HAS INSTEAD OF ATTENDING TO HIS DUTY, CALLED UPON HIS ASST. TO DO IT ALL! I WISH, I HOPE, I PRAY TO GOD THAT WE MAY NOT BE STUCK HERE; THAT WE MAY GET OFF IMMEDIATLY; THAT WE MAY HAVE SOME PERSON IN THE PLACE OF HTE MAN JUST SPOKEN OF, WHO WILL KNOW HIS DUTY AND DO IT....8 O'CLOCK WROTE THIS. READ THE SPECTATOR UNTIL 10, THEN WENT TO BED

MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 17, 1832

AROSE BEFORE SUNRISE WHICH MAY BE CONSIDERED A WONDER. PREPARED TO GO TO TOWN WITH A REQUISITION FROM J.B.G. FOR AN EXPRESS TO GO TO WASSAUGHKONETTA TO TAKE LONG LETTER TO THE CHIEFS AND PEOPLE OF THAT PLACE, WHO HAS GONE. (THIS IS 10 O'CLOCK). AT 7 O'CLOCK MRS. MCPHERESON WAS TAKEN WITH AN APOPLECTIC FIT WHICH TERMINATED HER LIFE IN A FEW MINUTES. MEDICAL AID WAS IMMEDIATELY CALLED FOR FROM BELLEFONTAINE BUT ARRIVED TOO LATE. HALF PAST SEVEN STARTED TO TOWN; DONE MY BUSINESS....GOT A CHECK FOR J.B.G. FOR 202.18 FROM LIEUT. LANE. G. WAS OUT OF FUNDS. HALF PAST EIGHT TOOK BREAKFAST AT BULL'S TAVERN. AT 9 STARTED BACK HERE IN THE COMPANY OF COL. MCELVAINE WHERE I FOUND NEARLY ALL THE WOMEN WHO LIVE IN THE NEIGHBOORHOOD.....SOME SMOKING, SOME DRINKING, SOME CRYING, SOME TALKING, SOME DOING NOTHING & SOME MAKING A SHROUD FOR THE DESEASED. AT 10 O'CLOCK WROTE THIS. FROM 10 UNTIL 12 MADE AN ISSUEING ROLL FOR 258 PERSONS. AT 12 O'CLOCK STARTED TO LEWISTOWN TO SUPERINTEND THE ISSUING OF RATIONS TO THE INDIANS. REMAINED THERE UNTIL 6 O'CLOCK. AT 7 O'CLOCK ARRIVED HERE AND WENT TO BED AT HALF PAST EIGHT.

TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 18, 1832

ATTENDED TO NOTHING UNTIL 12 O'CLOCK. EXCEPTING THE FUNERAL OF MRS. MCPHERESON. 12 O'CLOCK STARTED TO LEWISTOWN WITH GEN. WORKMAN AND OTHERS WITH FIFTEEN HORSES, WHICH WERE FOR THE INDIANS AND WERE DISTRIBUTED TO THOSE OF THE TRIBE WHO NEEDED THEM MOSE BY THE CHIEFS. ONE PIECE OF PRUSSIA SHEETING (OF TWO THAT WERE TAKEN TO LEWISTOWN) WAS DISTRIBUTED AMONG THEM FOR BAGS. REMAINED AT LEWISTOWN UNTIL 6 O'CLOCK. IN THE COURSE OF TIME WHICH I SPENT THERE I HAD THE PLEASURE OF SEEING THE GAME CALLED SQUAW. A KIND OF BALL, PLAYED BY INDIANS; WHEREIN BOTH MALE & FEMALE ENGAGED. AT 7 O'CLOCK ARRIVED AT COL. MCPHERESON'S. 8 O'CLOCK WROTE THIS. I LEARNED THIS EVENING FROM A LETTER REC'D BY COL. GARDINER FROM MAJ. POOL THAT THE WAPPAGHKONETTA WERE STARTING AND WOULD ENCAMP AT HARDIN, A TOWN 4 MILES WEST OF SIDNEY, TO WAIT THE ARRIVAL OF THE SENECAS & SHAWNEES OF LEWISTOWN, WITH WHOM THEY WISH TO HOLD COUNCIL ON WHAT ROUTE IT IS BEST TO PURSUE. 9 O'CLOCK WENT TO BED.

WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 19, 1832

5 O'CLOCK AROSE AND WENT TO BELLFONTAINE ON BUSINESS FOR J.B.G. AND MYSELF. AT 8 O'CLOCK RETURNED...ASSISTED J.B.G. AND AT 12 STARTED TO LEWISTOWN AFTER SETTLING MY ACCOUNTS IN FULL AT COL. MCPHERESON'S. HURRIED THE INDIANS ETC. ETC. AND AT 5 O'CLOCK AND A HALF LEFT THAT PLACE ON OUR ROUTE TO THE PLACE OF OUR DESTINATION, WEST OF THE STATE OF MISSOURI IN OUR COMPANY WITH J.B.G., GEN. WORKMAN & M. LANE...AT 7 O'CLOCK ARRIVED 7 MILES S.W. ON THE ROAD TO SIDNEY, WHERE CIVIL JOHN THE HEADCHIEF OF THE LEWISTOWN PEOPLE HAD ENCAMPED AN HOUR BEFORE WE ARRIVED. AT HALF PAST 8 WENT TO BED.

THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 20, 1832

AROSE AT 5 O'CLOCK. AFTER BREAKFAST STARTED TO COL. MC'S, RODE TO LEWIS DOUGHERTY'S -5-MILES- (?) STARTED THERE 2 HOURS AND HURRIED THOSE PEOPLE OFF...GEN. WORKMAN, WHO WAS WITH ME BOUGHT A COLT THERE OFF AN INDIAN, WHICH PLAGUED US CONFOUNDEDLY. AT 1 O'CLOCK ARRIVED AT THE COL.'S ....HALTERED THE PUBLIC HORSES WHICH WE WENT FOR. STAID UNTIL A SEVERE RAIN AND WIND STORM WAS OVER AND AT 3 O'CLOCK LEFT THAT PLACE FOR THIS. AT 6 O'CLOCK ARRIVED HERE (DIXON) WENT AND VIEWED THE INDIANS CAMPS ETC. 8 O'CLOCK SUPPED....AT 9 WENT TO BED.

FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 21, 1832

5 O'CLOCK AROSE. AFTER BREAKFAST RODE ON WITH THE INDIANS TO SIDNEY...GOT DINNER ETC. ETC. AND CAMPED HERE (HARDIN 5 MILES WEST OF SIDNEY) 5 O'CLOCK ARRIVED. FROM 7 UNTIL 9 MADE A MUSTER ROLL, AND AT 9 WENT TO BED.

SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 22, 1832

AROSE AT FIVE AND WENT TO THE INDIAN CAMPS ETC....WROTE A LETTER TO COZ. CAROLINE. GAVE RECIEPTS TO BASSETT FOR PROVISIONS. AT 4 O'CLOCK STARTED TO SIDNEY 5 MILES...GOT SEVERAL ARTICLES THERE & BROUGHT HOME TWO STRAY INDIANS ONE OF WHOM WAS DRUNK. HALF PAST 6 RETURNED....8 O'CLOCK ATTENDED A DANCE OF THE INDIANS...LOOKED AROUND THEIR CAMPS TO KEEP LIQUOR AWAY. AT 11 O'CLOCK WENT TO BED.

SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 23, 1832

STARTED FROM HARDIN IN THE MORNING & AT FOUR PITCHED OUR TENTS, 19 MILES FROM THAT PLACE. WE AVOIDED PIQUA FOR FEAR THE INDIANS WOULD GET LIQUOR, GET INTOXICATED & DETAIN US. WE NOW ARE 9 MILES WEST OF PIQUA ON THE ROAD TO GREENVILLE. I HAVE NOT SEEN MR. BASSETT TODAY. HE ENGAGED PASTURAGE ON ANOTHER ROUTE. THE PEOPLE IN PIQUA REGRETTED VERY MUCH THAT WE DID NOT GO THAT WAY. ALL IS QUIET AT THE CAMP. WOOD & WATERARE PLENTY & CONVIENT; PASTURE ONLY TOLERABLE. AT 9 O'CLOCK ATTENDED AT ETH CAMP ON BUSINESS WITH WM. VAN HORNE. HE EXCHANGED HORSES. SENT A LETTER TO COZ. CAROLINE...GEN. WORKMAN IS QUITE UNWELL....AT HALF PAST 9 WENT TO BED.

MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 24, 1832

AFTER BREAKFAST WE STRUCK OUR TENTS AT STILLWATER, THE PLACE WE ENCAMPED LAST NIGHT. I RODE ON BEFOREWITH MR. BASSETT WHO OVERTOOK US IN THE MORNING JUST BEFORE WE STARTED. AT 12 O'CLOCK STOPPED AT A PUBLIC HOUSE A FEW MINUTES WHERE I LEFT MY COMPANION AND RODE ON TO GREENVILLE. I WAS COUGHT IN A SEVERE STORM & GOT QUITE WET. HALF PAST ONE ARRIVED IN GREEN PASTURE (?) & CAMPING GROUND WERE ENGAGED BY MR. BASSETT FOR THE INDIANS ADJOINING HIS PLACE. THEY ARIVED HERE AT 4 O'CLOCK AND OCCUPIED THEM. AFTER DARK I VISITED THE CAMP & WENT ROUND TOWN TO SEE IF THE INDIANS GOT LIQUOR. SOME WAS GIVEN THEM BUT NOT MUCH. 9 WENT TO BED.

TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 25, 1832

CERTIFIED WITH GEN. WORKMAN THE RECIEPT OF THE PROVISIONS FURNISHED ON A REQUISITION FOR TODAY....AND THE NECESSITY OF PUTTING ON SOME HORSE SHOES. EIGHT HORSE SHOES WERE PUT ON. SOME OF THE INDIAN HORSES GOT OUT OF THE PASTURE AND CAUSED CONSIDERABLE TROUBLE TO THEIR OWNERS IN LOOKING FOR THEM. AT 12 O'CLOCK THEY WERE FOUND. AT 11 O'CLOCK WE STRUCK OUR TENTS AND MARCHED TOWARDS RICHMOND, IND., HAVING THOSE WHO WERE HUNTING THEIR HORSES BEHIND AND ONE OTHER FAMILY. AT 6 O'CLOCK ENCAMPED 13 MILES FROM GREENVILLE. THE HORSESLOST THIS MORNING WERE FOUND AND THE PEOPLE OVERTOOK US EXCEPTING THOSE WHO HAD WAGONS. (THE DOUGHTERY FAMILY) WHO WILL NOT BE IN TONIGHT.

FROM 7 UNTIL 12 WROTE IN MY JOURNAL OF OCCURANCES, CHATTED WITH WORKMAN, BASSET & THE INDIANS AT THEIR CAMP AND ASSISTED WRITING A LETTER TO J.B.G. ON THE SUBJECT OF OUR MOVEMENTS SINCE LEAVING HARDIN. 12 O'CLOCK WENT TO BED.

WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 26, 1832

AT ___ ALL IS QUIET IN THE CAMP. LAST NIGHT MR. BASSETT WROTE A LETTER WHICH HE SENDS BY EXPRESS THIS MORNING TO LIUET. LANE. HE IS NOT WELL PLEASED WITH THE CONTENTS OF COL. GARDINERS LETTER TO GEN. WORKMAN....WHICH HE SAW LAST NIGHT. HE SAYS THAT HE WILL NOT CONTRACCT FOR PASTURE OR PROVISIONS UNTIL HE RECIEVES FURTHER INSTRUCTION FORM THE DIS. AGENT....AT 7 O'CLOCK I COPIED A SCHEDULE OF THE PUBLIC HORSES IN THIS DETACHMENT. AT 10 O'CLOCK I SETTLED WITH OUR HOST FOR MYSELF AND GEN. WORKMAN AND STARTED ON AHEAD. AT 3 O'CLOCK ARRIVED AT MR. BARNES.....ENGAGED PASTURE OF HIM AT 3 CENTS PER HEAD FOR 24 HOURS. IN THE EVENING THE INDIANS OVERTOOK ME & ENCAMPED AT THIS PLACE. I VISITED ONCE OR TWICE. AT HALF PAST 4 RODE TO RICHMOND, IND. WITH GEN. WORKMAN TO ASCERTAIN IF LIEUT. LANE HAD ARRIVED AND WHETHER THE PROVISIONS HAD COME ETC. ETC. AT 7 O'CLOCK GOT BACK TO MR. BARNES...AT 9 O'CLOCK WENT TO BED.

THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 27, 1832

IN THE MORNING FILLED A REQUISITION ON LIEUT. LANE FOR 516 RATIONS SIGNED DUPLICATE RECIEPTS FOR SAME. 10 O'CLOCK WENT TO RICHMOND....DONE SOME LITTLE BUSINESS...AND AT 3 RETURNED. MADE A PROVISION RETURN ON THE CONTRACTOR FOR TWO DAYS RATIONS. WAS PRESENT AT THE DELIVERY AND DISTRIBUTION OF HTE SAME....RECIEWED THE CAMP ETC. AT 6 O'CLOCK WROTE IN MY JOURNAL OF OCCURANCES. AT 9 O'CLOCK WROTE IN MEM. HALF PAST WENT TO BED.

FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 28, 1832

REMAINED AT CAMP UNTIL 9....WROTE A LETTER TO COZ. HARRIET...AFTER DINNER TOOK IT TO RICHMOND TO THE P.O. DIRECTED HER TO WRITE ME AT TERRE HAUTE. GOT MY HORSE SHOD...HURRIED THE INDIANS FORM TOWN, SOME OF WHOM WERE INTOXICATED AND VERY TROUBLESOME. AT 5 RETURNED TO CAMP, SUPPED WITHA DOZEN FELLOWS WHO CAME FORM EATON, OHIO TO SEE THE INDIANS.

AT 8 O'CLOCK VISITED THE TENTS....SOME OF THE INDIANS WHO WERE A LITTLE KOKKOOSEY (?) AND SOME WHITE MEN DANCED TO THE VIOLIN PLAYED BY AN INDIAN. AT 10 WENT TO BED.

SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 29, 1832

I VISITED THE TENTS & READ SOME NEWSPAPERS & MAGAZINES. AT 10 SCRIBBLED A SCRAP TO MAJ. POOL. 11 O'CLOCK FILLED A REQUISITION TO LIEUT. LANE FOR 516 RATIONS OF BEEF, FLOUR & SALT, WHICH WAS FURNISHED AT 2 O'CLOCK. HE HAD THE BEEF PREPARED WITHOUT CONSULTING THE OFFICER WHOSE DUTY, AND WHOSE ONLY DUTY IT WAS TO DIRECT WHAT KIND AND QUANTITY SHOULD BE PROVIDED!!

LEARNED FROM G.W LANE, BROTHER OF J.F. LANE THAT COL. GARDINER WAS SICK AT PIQUA. 2 O'CLOCK WROTE A LETTER TO BROTHER A.H., REMAINED AT THE HOUSE AND CAMP UNTIL HALF PAST THREEM THEN STARTED TO RICHMOND WHERE I BOUGHT ME A CLOAK, AN UMBRELLA AND A LARE BUTCHER KNIFE. AT 6 STARTED HOME...GOT HERE AT 7, SUPPED AND WROTE THIS. CHATTED UNTIL BED TIME.

SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 30, 1832

STAYED AT THE CAMP & AT MR. BARNES UNTIL 12....REC'D ORDERS FROM J.B.G. TO MARCH IMMEDIATLY. REC'D A LETTER FROM UNCLE G.W.P. AND ONE FROM E.J.K. BY THE PACKET FROM GARDINER. I MADE OUT A REQUISITION FOR 1032 RATIONS FOR THE INDIANS OF BACON, FLOUR & SALT TO BE FURNISHED IN THE MORNING. AT 2 I RODE INTO TOWN FOR THE PURPOSE OF PRESENTING THE REQUISITION FOR PROVISIONS AND ONE FOR THE PAY OF PASTURAGE TO MR. BARNES....ATHE AMOUNT OF 17.60....RETURNED AT 4 AND MET COL. J.B.G. AT MR. BARNES, WITH MR. VAN HORNE....J.B.G. PAID FOR THE PASTURE....LT. LANE WAS UNWILLING TO DISCHARGE IT AS A REQUISITION....AT HALF PAST FOUR LEFT FOR THE CAMP WHICH WAS SIX MILES WEST. REC'D A SEVERE SCOLDING FROM J.B.G. FOR MISUNDERSTANDING HIS DIRECTIONS AND CONSEQUENTLY PROCEEDING ERRONEOUSLY IN THE BUSINESS OF SUFFERING MR. BASSETT TO ENGAGE IN PASTURAGE FOR THIS DETACHMENT. THIS COND (?) GARDINER SAYS SHOULD ENGAGE IT AND FILL ONE OF HIS (GARD.) BLANK REQUISITIONS FOR THE SETTLEMENT OF THE BILL. AT HALF PAST 6 ARRIVED AT THE ENCAMPMENT......REVIEWED THE TENTS, THE PASTURE, THE SITUATION ETC. AND AT 9 WENT TO BED FEELING SOMEWHAT UNWELL.

Daniel Dunihue Diary, October 1832

MONDAY, OCTOBER 1, 1832

AT SIX O'CLOCK REVIEWED THE CAMP....AT EIGHT WROTE IN MY JOURNAL OF OCCURANCES. AT NINE STARTED TO RICHMOND TO SEE COL. GARDINER. CAHTTED WITH HIM & WITH MR. VAN HORNE HALF AN HOUR AND HAD AN INTERVIEW WITH LT. LANE ON THE SUBJECT OF TRANSPORTATION, BY THE REQUEST OF COL. J.B.G. HE WISHES TWO/FOUR HORSE TEAMS INSTEAD OF THE TWO THREE HORSE WAGONS NOW IN EMPLOY. AT HALF PAST TEN RETURNED TO CAMP...SETTLED BILL...MADE CERTIFICATE & SIGNED FOR MR. BARNES THAT HE HAD SUSTAINED A LOSS BY THE INDIANS BREAKING INTO CORN TO THE AMOUNT OF TEN DOLLARS. AT HALF PAST ELEVEN LEFT THE ENCAMPMENT IN COMPANY WITH OUR RED BRETHREN AND COMMENCED MARCHING TOWARDS GENTREVILLE, WHICH IS SEVEN MILES WEST OF RICHMOND....PASSED THROUGH THAT PLACE AT TWO OT THREE O'CLOCK AND ENCAMPED AT TWO MILES WEST. AT FOUR O'CLOCK.

I HERE ENGAGED PASTURE AT TWO CENTS PER HEAD FOR THE NIGHT....WENT ROUND THE TENTS ONCE OR TWICE...WENT WITH THE INDIANS ONCE OR TWICE TO THE PASTURE WHICH WAS MARSHEY HALF A MILE. AT EIGHT HAD CONSIDERABLE TROUBLE IN KEEPING THE VISITORS FROM DISTURBING OUR FOLKS, WHICH THEY DID DO NOT WITHSTANDING, SOME OF THE TAWNY FELLOWS THREW CLUBS AND STONES TO DRIVE THEM AWAY BECAUSE THEY KEPT SUCH AN UPROAR. AT 9 WROTE IN MY JOURNAL OF OCCURANCES THE PROCEEDINGS OF THE DAY AND THEN TO BED.

TUESDAY, OCTOBER 2, 1832

SETTLED THE BILL FOR THE PASTURE WITH C.B JACKSON FOR THE INDIAN HORSES, 4.20...WROTE RECIEPTS AND HAD THEM SIGNED AND ATTESTED. AT NINE LEFT THE ENCAMPMENT AND MARCHED ON TOWARDS INDIANAPOLIS.....AT 12 STOPPED AND DINED IN DUBLIN, A LITTLE TWO YEAR OLD VILLAGE. IT RAINED ALL DAY. AT 3 O'CLOCK ENGAGED PASTURAGE OF MR. MATHEW EDGERTON, 13 AND A HALF MILES FORM OUR LAST ENCAMPMENT, AT $5.00 FOR THE LOT OF HORSES, ABOUT 200. AT FIVE COPIED A MUSTER ROLL, WHICH OCCUPIED MY TIME UNTIL ABOUT HALF PAST SEVEN....WROTE IN THE JOURNAL OF OCCURANCES AND AT 9 WENT TO BED.

WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 3, 1832

AT EN STRUCK OU RTENTS AND COMMENCED THE LINE OF MARCH...THE ROAD WAS VERY BAD. I ARRIVED AT THREE P.M. FIFTEEN MILES FROM THE ENCAMPMENT WHERE I ENGAGED IN PASTURAGE AT TWO AND ONE HALF CENTS WHICH WAS PROBABLY NOT WORTH ONE CENT...I BOUGHT 1000 LBS. HAY AND SIX DOZ. SHEAFS OATS, HAY 25 CENTS PER 100 LBS....OATS 25 CENTS PER DOZ. AT SIX VISITED THE CAMP AND REMAINED THERE TWO HOURS....SUCCEEDED WITH THE COMMANDER IN FORMING A STRATAGEM WHICH ENTIRELY DISPERSSED ALL THE WHITE PEOPLE....WE HAD AN INDIAN SPEAK VERY LOUD TO THE LARGE COMPANY WHICH HAD COLLECTED THROUGH CURIOUSITY, WHICH THE CONDUCTOR INTERPRETED TO THE BYSTANDERS AS AN ORDER TO PLACE OUT A GUARD TO PREVENT ALL DISTURBANCES IN THE NIGHT....AND THAT HE ADVISED THE PEOPLE TO RETURN TO THEIR HOMES FORTHWITH WHICH THEY DID WITH THE UTMOST ALACRITY. AT TEN WENT TO BED.

THURSDAY, OCTOBER 4, 1832

NINE O'CLOCK IN THE MORNING WROTE A RECIEPT FOR THE PASTURAGE & GRAIN & HAY FOR THE INDIANS HORSES...HAD A TEDIOUS DISPUTE WITH THE LANDLORD WHO WISHED TO IMPOSE UPON ME AND GET THREE CENTS WHEN OUR AGREEMENT WAS 2 CENTS. THE HORSES BROKE DOWN A FENCE AND EAT SOME CORN WHICH HE SAID WOULD HAVE TO BE PAID FOR OR DETAIN US A DAY AT LEAST. WE DISPUTED UNTIL IT WAS TIME FOR US TO RIDE BRISKLY TO OVERTAKE THE INDIANS IN TWO HOURS. THE MAN REFUSED TO SIGN THE RECIEPTS UNTIL HE HAD BEEN COMPENSATED FOR THE CORN WHICH WAS DESTROYED...AND FOR FEAR OF BEING DETAINED & PLAGUED BY HIM, WE ALLOWED HIM 2.50 & TOOK HIS RECIEPT. AT 12 LEFT WEST LIBERTY...THAT HOLE OF HOOZHURS (OLD SPELLING OF HOOSIER?) AND UNMANNERLY CLOWNS AS SHAKEPEAR SAYS. AT FOUR OVERTOOK CIVIL JOHN 14 MILES FROM WHERE WE STARTED!! ENDEAVORED TO ENGAGE PASTURAGE FOR THE HORSES BUT COULD NOT. THE ONLY ONE TO BE HAD WAS WORTH ABOUT 1 CENT PER HEAD FOR 24 HOURS, AND THE OWNER ASKED 12 1/2 PER HEAD PER NIGHT!! THE INDIANS TURNED THEIR HORSES INTO THE WOODS. AT DUSK ABOUT HALF THE HORSES WERE TURNED INTO THE REFUSSED PASTURE WITHOUT ANYTHING BEING SAID TO THE COMMANDER OR MYSELF UPON THE SUBJECT. OUR CAMP IS SIXTEEN MILES EAST OF INDIANAPOLIS AT SUGAR CREEK, 4 MILES WEST OF GREENFIELD, HANCOCK COUNTY. AT EIGHT FED MY HORSE IN THE WOODS TIED HIM UP TO A TREE....SUPPED WITH GEN. WORKMAN, WITH THE INDIANS AND THE WAGONEERS. AT TEN O'CLOCK P.M. LIEUT. LANE ARRIVED HERE FROM RICHMOND, IND., FROM WHICH HE HAD RODE SINCE TWO O'CLOCK (53 OR 55 MILES) CHATTED AN HOUR & THEN STARTED ON TO INDIANAPOLIS (3 O'CLOCK)

FRIDAY, OCTOBER 5, 1832

FIVE O'CLOCK AROSE FROM A COMFORTABLE NIGHTS REPOSE UNDER A BEECH TREE BEFORE AN INDIAN FIRE. SIX O'CLOCK SHAVED...WROTE IN MY JOURNAL OF OCCURANCES, MY DIARY, MY TRAVELLING EXPENSE BOOK, ETC. ETC. AND AT NINE WE STRUCK OUR TENTS & MARCHED ON TOWARDS INDIANAPOLIS.

AT EIGHT SETTLED WITH JUDGE JONES FOR PASTURE -- PAYING HIM $4 -- TOOK DUPLICATE RECIEPTS.

AT 2 STOPPED THREE MILES EAST OF TOWN TO SELECT CAMPING GROUND AND PASTURE -- FOUND PLENTY OF THE FORMER BUT NONE OF THE LATTER.

AT THREE ARRIVED AT THE METROPOLIS OF THE STATE. IT IS A THRIVING VILLAGE; THOUGH NOT SO LARGE & LIVELY AS RICHMOND.

STOPPED AT MR. TOWN'S (?) PUBLIC HOUSE AND RESTED A WHILE. HALF AN HOUR AFTERWARDS GEN. WORKMAN ARRIVED THERE. AFTER REFRESHING OURSELVES WE RODE OVER THE RIVER TO THE FARM OF MR. MORRIS WHERE WE UNDERSTOOD WAS GOOD PASTURE AND WATER....I RETURNED....GEN. W. RODE ON TO ENGAGE THE PASTURE.

I DIRECTED THE INDIANS TO THE CAMPING GROUND AND AT 6 RODE OUT MYSELF. FED MY HORSE WITH GREEN CORN; TIED HIM TO THE FENCE & AFTER ASSISTING TO CLEAR THE CAMP OF ALL THE WHITE PEOPLE I WENT TO BED AT FIVE -------MY HORSE EAT BREAKFAST AT THE CAMP. AT 8 I FILLED TWO PROVISION RETURNS IN THE ____(?) ONE FOR THOSE DELIVERED AT SUGAR CREEK AMD THE OTHER FOR TWO DAY'S RATIONS HERE. HALF PAST 9 WENT TO INDIANAPOLIS WITH GEN. WORKMAN. GOT A LETTER AT THE P.O. FROM BROTHER A.H.D. I WROTE AN ANSWER BUT WHEN I TOOK IT TO THE OFFICE THE MAIL WAS JUST STARTING AND I COUND NOT GET IT IN.

REMAINED IN TOWN UNTIL HALF PAST 4, AT WHICH TIME COL. GARDINER ARRIVED FROM RICHMOND. CHATTED A FEW MINUTES WITH HIM THEN RETURNED TO CAMP & EAT SUPPER, FED HORSE, TIED HIM TO FENCE, DROVE OF[F] THE WHITE PEOPLE WHO WERE SOMEWHAT NIOSY; AND AT 9 WENT TO BED. GEN. W. RODE OUT FROM TOWN TO SEE A RELATIVE OF HIS THREE MILES OFF.

SUNDAY, 7TH

AROSE AT 5, WROTE SOME AND WALKED ABOUT THE CAMP, ETC. AT 7 GEN. W. RETURNED. AT 10 HE ------ ORDERS TO START IN THE AFTERNOON ------ WENT TO INDIANAPOLIS AND AT 1 RETURNED WIHT W. BASSETT WHO PAID OUR BILL FOR PASTURE AND CORN 35.20. COL. GARDINER ALSO RETURNED WITH HIM AND ACCOMPANIED THE ATTACHMENT WHERE WE THEN CAMPED -- HE RODE 4 MILES FURTHER. AT 7 WALKED FROM TENT TO TENT ALL AROUND THE CAMP -- NOY ONE ESCAPED MY EYE -- AND BUT A FEW ESCAPED AN INTENSIVE INVESTIGATION.

AT HALF PAST 9 -- BEFORE I HAD QUITE GONE TO SLEEP I WAS AROUSED BY GROANS AND SMOTHERED CRIES AND GASPS AND SIGHS. I HOPPED OUT OF MY BED AND MADE MY WAY WITH ALL HASTE TO THE BEDSIDE OF HIM WHO MADE THE NOISES. IT WAS A MAN LYING UPON HIS BACK IN A BED PLACED UPON THE FLOOR, HE HELD UP HIS ARMS WHICH WERE TREMBLING LIKE ASPEN LEAVES; HIS LEGS WERE EXTENDED AND TREMBLING-- HIS FACE WAS PALE AS DEATH; AND HIS DISTORTED AND WRITHING FEATURES WERE DOUBLY APPALLING BECAUSE ACCOMPANIED WITH SUCH DOLEFUL CRIES -- I RUSHED UP TO HIM AND HAD TAKEN HOLD OF HIS ARM, WHEN A LITTLE BOY, BEFORE UNOBSERVED, EXCLAIMED -- "HE HAS A FIT" -- AT THE SAME TIME APPEARING SO CALM THAT IT IN A PARTIAL MEASURED DISPELLED MY ALARM -- DIRECTLY A WOMAN CAME UPSTAIRS AND SAID -- "DON'T BE UNEASY -- HE HAS A FIT EVERY NIGHT -- THEY DON'T HURT HIM."

MONDAY 8TH

AT 6 AROSE AND WENT AMONG THE TENTS -- AT 9 PAID OUR BILLS -- AND AT 10 STARTED ON WITH THE FOREMOST INDIANS TOWARDS TERRE HAUTE. AT 2 DINED AT GEN. JOHNSON'S THE MANAGER, DIRECTOR ETC OF THE NATIONAL ROAD IN INDIANA. COL. GARDINER WAS THERE. AT HALF PAST 2 LEFT HIS HOUSE AND WENT ON TO SELECT A PLACE TO ENCAMP -- AT 5 OC WE ENCAMPED AT A DISTANCE OF 19 MILES FROM WHERE WE STARTED IN THE MORNING. ATTENDED TO THE CAMP, ETC AND AT 9 TO BED.

TUESDAY 9TH

LEFT THE ENCAMPMENT AT 9 7 ROSE ON WITH MR. BASSETT TO ENGAGE PASTURE, ETC. AT 3 ARRIVED AT GREENCASTLE 14 MILES -- TURNED BACK AND ENGAGED A PLACE ONE MILE EAST OF THAT PLACE. 5 WENT WITH TWO OR THREE INDIANS TO HUNT -- KILLED THREE SQUIRREL, 6 ? VISITED THE CAMP; GOT FODDER FOR HORSES AND AT 8 WENT TO BED. COL. GARDINERWAS BY WHILE I WAS HUNTING.

WEDNESDAY 10TH

AT HALF PAST 5 AROSE

AT 6 SHAVED

AT 7 BREAKFASTED

AT 8 WENT AROUND THE CAMP 7 CHATTED WITH INDIANS

AT 9 COMMENCED MAKING OUT AN ABSTRACT OF PROVISIONS WHICH HAVE BEEN ISSUED TO INDIANS. AT 11 FINISHED IT.

AT 12 STARTED TO GREENCASTLE WITH MR. VAN HORN -- AT 1 DINED THERE AND CHATTED WITH HIM HALF AN HOUR -- LOOKED OVER SOME PAPER, ETC.

AT HALF PAST THREE STARTED BACK TO CAMP, WHITHER COL. GARDINER HAD GONE HALF AN HOUR BEFORE.

I FOUND THAT OFFICER AT THE CAMP, HE SHEW ME A LETTER JUST RECD FROM MAJOR POOLE STATING THA MANNER IN WHICH THINGS WERE PROCEEDING IN THE REAR.

THURSDAY 11TH

EXCHANGED SITUATIONS WITH COL. GARDINER'S CLERK AT THE SOLICITATION OF COL. G. AT 9 RODE TO TOWN TO VISIT HIM AT HALF PAST 9 WENT BACK TO CAMP. HALF PAST 10 STARTED WITH COL. GARDINER AND MR. BASSETT TOWARDS CLINTON AT 5 ARRIVED AT DIXON'S MILL 16 MILES W. OF GREENCASTLE -- REMAINED ALL NIGHT -- FROM 8 UNTIL 10 WROTE A LONG LETTER TO ALEXANDER.

FRIDAY 12TH

BEFORE BREAKFAST COPIED A COMMUNICATION TO LIUET. LANE -- WENT UP TO THE CAMP ONCE OR TWICE ETC & DELIVERED THE COM'D PAPERS TO HIM, ETC.

AT 10 STARTED ON TOWARDS CLINTON -- AT 12 ARRIVED AT THE RIVER OPPOSITE TO THAT PLACE. VISITED THE CAMP, CHATTED, ETC AND AT 9 WENT TO BED.

SATURDAY 13TH

IN THE MORNING BEFORE BREAKFAST VISITED THE CAMP. AFTER BREAKFAST COPIED TWO REQUISITIONS ON LIUET. LANE -- ONE FOR BEEF ONE FOR FLOUR. ASSITED THE INDIANS TO CROSS THE RIVER, WHICH WAS NOT FULLY ACCOMPLISHED UNTIL NOON.

AT 12 STARTED BACK FROM CLINTON TO MEET CAPT. HOLLISTER; THE COMD OF THE DETACHMENT OF OTTAWAS. AT THE DISTANCE OF 7 MILES I MET HIM --GAVE HIM A LETTER FROM COL. G. RODE BACK WITH HIM IN COMPANY OF HIS PEOPLE -- ARRIVED AT THE RIVER AT HALF PAST 4 REMAINED HALF AN HOUR -- SHEW HIM THE FORDING PLACE, AND STARTED BACK. AT DUSK ARRIVED AT THE CAMP 6 MILES WEST OF CLINTON -- RODE BACK A MILE TO TH EHOUSE WHERE COL. GARDINER PUT UP.

SUPPED, WROTE AND AT 9 WENT TO BED.

SUNDAY 14TH

AFTER BREAKFAST WENT ON WITH THE SPE. SGT. AND MR. BAPETT ______

TOWARDS PARIS, ILL. AT 2 O'C ARRIVED AT THAT PLACE. STAID HALF AN HOUR AND RODE BACK TO THE CAMP 1 1/2 MILES TO GET A PUBLIC HOUSE HORSE -- WHICH THE INDIANS HAD BEEN GOOD ENOUGH TO DRIVE TODAY FOR ME. IN THE EVENING READ SOME -- CHATTED SOME AND AT 7 STARTED OUT TO THE CAMP AGAIN. REMAINED THERE TWO HOURS ENJOYING MYSELF VERY WELL BEFORE A NOBLE FIRE IN THE LARGE MARQUEE OF GEN. WORKMAN -- I VISITED CAPT. HOLISTER THE COMD OF THE OTTAWAS AT HIS CAMP A QUARTER OF A MILE FORM THE LEWISTON CAMP. AT HALF PAST 9 AROUND BACK -- AND AT 10 WENT TO BED.

MONDAY 15TH

COPIED SOME REQUISITIONS FOR BEEF BEFORE BREAKFAST -- DO. DO. AFTER DO. COPIED CERTIFICATE -- AND SHAVED AND DONE OTHER LITTLE CHORES (AS THE YANKEES SAY!) AT 11 LEFT PARIS WITH THE _______ AND PROCEEDED TO THE WEST. AT HALF PAST 7 ARRRIVED AT CHARLESTON 30 MILES. THE INDIANS ENCAMPED AT DARK ON THE AMBRAISE 4 MILES E.

AT 8 WENT TO SEE DR. G. BAILEY WHO HAS SETTLED HERE -- CHATTED TWO OT THREE HOURS WITH HIM -- SHARED SOME OF MY LETTERS AND HE SHEW ME SOME OF HIS -- WALKED OUT WITH HIM AND SAW SOME OF THE VILLAGE GIRLS. CHATTED A LITTLE WHILE WITH THEM. AT 11 WENT TO BED.

TUESDAY 16TH

AT 6 AROSE AND STARTED TO THE CAMP -- CHATTED AN HOUR WITH THE WHITEMEN THERE, AND AT 8 ARRIVED BACK AT THE VILLAGE.

FROM 9 UNTIL 3 COPIED REQUISITIONS AND WROTE TWO -----

AT 3 IDLED AN HOUR. AT 4 SHINED AND COMMENCED A MUSTER ROLL -- WHICH I DID NOT FISNISH UNTIL AFTER DARK --

AT 8 FINISHED A LETTER TO MAJ. G.W. POOL OUR WORTHY UNCLE.

WENDESDAY 17TH

AT 6 O'C AROSE AND VISITED THE STABLE TO SEE HOW MY HORSES COME ON. AT 10 PAID AN EXTRAVAGANT ______ TO OUR LANDLORD, AND RODE AROUND WITH THE INDIANS. AT 1 OC LEFT TOWN WITH THE SUPT. AND DR. G. BAILEY, AND THE INDIANS -- RODE OUT TO TH ECREEK 3 MILES OFF WHERE THEY HAVE THIS EVENING ENCAMPED. AT 11 OC. HOPPED WITH _____ VH. (AND GOT BACK) WHICH HAS MADE ME VERY WEAK. SUPPED AT 7 -- HALF PAST 7 MAJ. G.W. POOL ARRIVED HERE.

THE SHAWNEES ARE BUT 8 MILES E. OF US.

8 WROTE THIS

THURSDAY 18TH

{**THE FOLLOWING IS CROSSED OUT IN DUNIHUE'S DIARY**}

AT HALF PST 5 AROSE -- AT 6 STARTED TO THE CAMP OF THE OTTOWAS AND THE SHAWNEE, 1 1/2 MILES, FOR 1 M (?) MACKINAC BLANKETS FOR

{**UNCROSSED OUT WRITING RESUMES**}

AT 6 AROSE AND VISITED THE CAMP -- CHATTED. AT 8 OC COL. J.B.G. & MAJ. POOL LEFT THE CAMP AND STARTED TO THE AMBRAISE WHERE THE SHAWNEE WERE ENCAMPED TO GET THEM TO COME ON -- THE LEWISTON INDIANS STARTED ON THSI MORNING TOWARDS SHELBYVILLE. FROM 9 UNTIL 1 RECORDED REQUISITIONS FOR LO. LANE. I CHATTED UNTIL 2 WITH MR. MINOR, MR. D____, CAPT. WEAVER, W. PHELP 7 C. WROTE SOME MORE BEFORE NIGHT. 6 OC THE COL. RETURNED. I REMAINED CHATTING UNTIL 9 THEN WENT TO BED.

FRIDAY 19TH

AT HALF PAST FIVE AROSE. 6 STARTED TO THE CAMP OF THE SHAWNEES, & OTTOWAS, 1 1/2 MILES. GOT I M MACKINAC BALNKETS FOR COL. J.B.G. AND THE DUPLICATE REQUISITIONS OF CAPT. B.F. HOLLISTER. AT 7 RETURNED PAID BILL -- DONE SOME OTHER LITTLE "CHORES" AND AT 9 STARTED TOWARDS SHELBYVILLE, 30 MILES -- AT 3 OC ARRIVED AT THAT PLACE. CHATTED, READ, WROTE, WALKED OUT ETC. ETC. ETC. AND AT 9 WENT TO BED.

SATURDAY 20TH

IN THE MORNING COPIED A CERTIFICATE AND REQUISITION ETC. AND AT 11 STARTED TOWARDS VANDALIA. AT 3 OC. RODE 12 MILES TO THE HOUSE OF PRENTIP A GOOD OLD YANKEE.

FROM 4 UNTIL HALF PAST 8 RECORDED REQUISITIONS FOR THE COL. AT 9 WROTE THIS & THEN WENT TO BED.

SUNDAY 21ST

AFTER BREAKFAST LEFT THE HOUSE OF MR. PRENTSS FOR VANDALIA AT WHICH PLACE COL. J.B.G. AND MYSELF ARRIVED ABOUT 3 OC. P.M. I IMMEDIATELY WENT TO THE P.O. TO ENQUIRE FOR LETTERS, BUT WHAT WAS MY SURPRISE AT LEARNING THERE WAS NONE FOR MYSELF, GARDINER, POOL OR VHORNE!

AT 7 OC. SUPPED.

AT QUARTER PAST 7 COMMENCED WRITING A LETTER TO COZ. LUCY GARDINER. AT 8 FINISHED IT; AND COMMENCED COPYING ONE TO LEIU. CAP. SECTY.WAR, BY COL. J.B.G. (JUST WRITTEN.) AT 10 FINISHED IT.

AT HALF PAST 10 WENT TO BED.

MONDAY THE 22

AROSE AT 6 -- SHAVED, SENT CLOTHES TO WASH, TOOK COAT TO TAILOR TO MEND, LOOKED TO MY HORSE, WROTE IN MY DIARY ETC. ETC. ALL BY 10 OC.

CHATTED WITH CAPT. HALL AN HOUR OR TWO.

RECORDED REQUISITIONS ETC. ETC. UNTIL NIGHT THEN WENT TO PRESBYTERIAN MEETING --- AT 10 WENT TO BED.

TUESDAY 23RD

FINISHED RECORDING REQUISITIONS BY 11 OC. COPIED A DUPLICATE LETTER TO THE SECTY. OF WAR. MADE A REQUISITION OR TWO.

AFTER DINNER CHATTED WITH CAPT. HALL AND OTHERS. ________ DONE SEVERAL UNIMPORTANT LITTLE THINGS. PACKED UP THE TRUNKS; WROTE LETTER TO BROTHER ALEXANDER. WAITED FOR THE MAIL UNTIL DARK THEN STARTED TO THE CAMP, 6 MILES, WITH MR. MEREDITH (THERE WAS NOTHING IN THE MAIL FOR ANYBODY BUT WM. VHORNE)

ARRIVED AT THE CAMP AT 8 OC. SUPPED THERE AND AT 10 WENT TO THE HOUSE AND GOT INTO A STINKING BED WITH MEREDITH.

WEDNESDAY 24TH

AT 9 OC STARTED TOWARDS GREENVILLE. AT 2 OC ARRIVED THERE WITH COL. GARDINER & WM. VHORNE. REMAINED THERE AN HOUR THEN WENT ON WITH THE INDIANS S.W. AT HALF PAST 4 ARRIVED AT MR. JOHNSON'S 6 MILES FORM GREENVILLE. LOOKED, ADMIRED, AND CONTEMPLATED A BEAUTIFUL PROSPECT FROM J.S. FINE FORM. ATTENDED TO MY HORSE. SUPPED ETC. AND READ NEWSPAPER UNTIL 9 THEN WENT TO BED.

THURSDAY 25TH

COPIED LETTERS FROM THE WAR DEPTARTMENT UNTIL 12 -- COPIED SOME REQUISITIONS ETC. ETC. AND AT 5 STARTED TO THE CAMP. REMAINED THERE AN HOUR THEN RETURNED. WROTE, READ, ETC. UNTIL BED TIME.

THIS EVENING COL. ALBERT AND JAMES WORKMAN ARRIVED AT THE CAMP JUST AS I WAS LEAVING IT AND WE RODE TOGETHER, BACK TO MR. JOPHNSON'S.

I COPIED TODAY A COMMUNICATION TO GOV. CLARK WRITTEN BY COL. GARDINER.

FRIDAY 26TH

I RECORDED THE LETTERS WRITTEN TO COL. GARDINER BY THE SECTY. OF WAR AND THE COM. GEN. SUB. ETC. ETC. ETC.

8 COPIED A LETTER TO GOV. CAJO. ASISTED THE P.M. & COL. GARDINER TO PUT UP THE MAIL.

SATURDAY 27TH

IN THE MORNING CONTINUED RECORDING COPIED COL. GARDINER'S RESIGNATION OF HIS OFFICE OF ______.

10 WROTE A LETTER TO THE P.M. AT VANDALIA DIRECTING HIM TO SEND ALL LETTERS HERE.

CONTINUED RECORDING UNTIL 1 OC.

COPIED ONE LETTER TWICE OF COL. ALBERT TO COL. GARDINER, ONE COPY FOR LT. LANE AND ONE FOR G.

COPIED SOME REQUISITIONS.

5 OC. COPIED A LETTER TO COL. ALBERT FORM COL. G. HALF PAST 5 COPIED A REQUISITION FOR THE SETTEE -- ______ OF PASTURAGE AND FORAGE FOR WHICH I PAID ON THE ROUTE.

6 MADE A SMALL BOOK TO BE A CONTINUATION OF THE JOURNAL OF OCCURANCES FOR THE LEWISTON DETACHMENT.

WROTE, CHATTED AND READ UNTIL 10 OR 11 OC THEN WENT TO BED.

SUNDAY 28TH

COPIED SEVERAL DOCUMENTS FOR COL. GARDINER; REQUISITIONS, CERTIFICATES, ETC, TEC. UNTIL 12 OC. RECD. PAY FOR THE PASTURAGE FOR WHICH I PAID ALONG THE ROUTE.

FROM 12 UNTIL 2 DONE NOTHING BECAUSE I COULD DO NOTHING IN CONSEQUENCE OF THE CROWD OF WAGGERS ETC. WHO ALL FLOCKED IN TO RECIEVE THEIR PAY.

YESTERDAY COL. ALBERT GAVE COL. GARDINER LEAVE OF ABSENCE TO RETURN HOME AND REPORT TO THE SECRETARY OF WAR; ASSUMING THE DIRECTION OF THE EMIGRATION HIMSELF. HE ALSO INFORMED LT. LANE THAT HE MUST GO TO ST. LOUIS AND FROM THENCE TO WASHINGTON, AND SETTLE UP HIS ACCOUNTS AND REPORT FOR FURTHER ORDERS.

COL. G. EXPRESSED THE MOST SINCERE PLEASURE AT THE DECISION OF COL. ALBERT WHOSE INSTRUCTIONS EMANTED FROM THE WAR DEPARTMENT. WHETHER IT WAS FEIGNED OT NOT I AM UNABLE TO SAY; BUT I SUPPPOSE IT WAS ABOUT HALF REAL -- AND -- ETC.

LIEUT. LANE WAS AS MUCH ________ AND MORTIFIED AS THE SUPDT. WAS PLEASED, IF HIS ACTIONS & LOOKS WERE TO GIVE EVIDENCE TO BE JUDGED BY.

IN THE EVENING I RODE OUT TO THE CAMP OF THE LEWISTOWN PEOPLE TO SEE HOW THEY WERE ALL COMING ON. THEY WELCOMED ME BY ACCLAMATION. THEY APPEARED MUCH EXHILERATED WHEN HEARING THAT I WOULD JOIN THEM IN THE MORNING. I VISITED THE TENTS OF SOME OF THE CHIEFS AND CHATTED WITH THEM AWHILE. AT 7 OC I RETURNED FROM ST. LOUIS WITH A LETTER FROM GOV. WM. CLARKE TO COL. J.B.G. IN ANSWER TO HIS OF THE 25TH; AND RELATED TO SUBJECTS CONNECTED WITH THE EMIGRATION OF INDIANS.

I CHATTED AN HOUR OR TWO & WENT TO BED.

MONDAY 29TH

AT 5 AROSE, LOOKED AT MY HORSE AND COMMENCED WRITING, AT WHICH I CONTINUED AN HOUR AND A HALF -- THEN TOOK BREAKFAST AND ATTENDED TO THE WANTS OF MY FRIENDS. CHATTED, PAID MY BILL AT JOHNSON'S (WHERE I HAD REMAINED NEARLY FIVE DAYS) (4.75) -- WENT TO THE CAMP, REMAINED THERE TWO HOURS CHATTED WITH THE CHIEFS & OTHERS. CIVIL JOHN OBSERVED THAT THE TRIBE INTENDED REMAINING ALL WINTER ON THE ROAD TO THEIR LANDS: THAT THEIR HORSES WERE WEAK; THAT THEY WERE TIRED ETC. ETC. AT 12 WENT BACK TO JOHNSON'S BOUGHT SOME APPLES; BID MY FRIENDS FAREWELL, AND STARTED ON WITH the FOREMOST FAMILY OF INDIANS, AND AT 5 ENCAMPED AT A CREEK ABOUT 11 OR 11 MILES ON THE ROAD TO LEBANON, ILL. WHERE I HAVE JUST WROTE THIS JOURNAL THE PROCEEDINGS OF THIS DAY.

ABOUT 8 I WENT WITH GEN. WORKMAN ABOUT A MILE AND A HALF TO SEE THE PRARIE BURN. IT WAS A BEAUTIFUL NIGHT, AS NIGHTS ARE GENERALLY DURING THE PERIOD DENOMINATED INDIAN-SUMMER, THE MOONHAD JUST HID HERSELF BENEATH THE THICK BLACK CLOUDS OF SMOKE WHICH SETTLED UPON AND ENRICHED THE DROOPING FRINGE OF NIGHT'S DARK, THOUGH SPARKLED AND SUBLIME MANTLE. THE THICK GRASS AROUND US WAS ILLUMINATED WITH A DOZEN FIRES. A GENTLE BREEZE FLEW BY, WAFTING THE FLAMES INTO THE AIR AND DIFFUSING A SPLENDID LIGHT FOR MILES AROUND. GENTLE ASCENTS AND DESCENTS WERE WHERE WE WERE, WHICH ADDED TO THE BRILLIANCE OF THE SCENE.

IT HAS OFTEN BEEN SAID THAT THE PRARIE SEEN ON FIRE IN THE NIGHT WAS ONE OF THE MOST INTERESTING THINGS IN NATURE. I AM FULLY CONVINCED OF THE FACT OF THE STATEMENT. I ENJOYED THE VIEW OF THE BURNING PRARIES OF ILLINOIS WITH THE MOST ANIMATED DELIGHT. ALL WAS DARK AND STILL AROUND SAVE THE SEVERAL LIGHTS WHICH WERE NEAR US, AND THE CRACKLING OF THE GRASS AND WEEDS AS THEY BURNT. THE ASCENTION OF THE SPARKS AND BLAZING SPEARS OF GRASS APPEARED LIKE SO MANY STARS SHOOTING AT RANDOM FROM the GROUND TO INTERREST THE ADMIRING SPECTATORS.

WE REMAINED UNTIL 10 OC. AND THEN COMMENCED OUR WAY BACK TO THE CAMP WHERE OUR __________ CHARGE WERE LOCKED IN THE KIND OF EMBRACE OF MORPHEUS.

TUESDAY 30TH

AROSE AT HALF PAST 5 OC. ASSISTED TO GET BREAKFAST, EAT IT. FED MY HORTSE, WENT TO A FARMHOUSE AND BOUGHT SOME BUTTER, ETC. ETC. AND AT 9 OC. I STARTED OUT WITH ABOUT A DOZEN MEN INTO A LARGE PRARIE TO HUNT DEER -- I SAW PROBABLY ABOUT A 20 OR 30 -- I HAD A GUN THAT PLAGUED ME VERY MUCH -- IT LOST THE PRIMING(?) I SHOT AT A LARGE BUCK BUT HE WAS A GREAT DISTANCE AWAY FROM ME; I FIRST SUPPED AND THEN WAS COMPELLED TO PRIME BEFORE SHOOTING. SOME OF THE INDIAN GUNS WERE SUCCESSFUL. IT IS A FINE PLACE TO HUNT -- A DEER CAN BE SEEN TWO OR THREE MILES. GENTLE EMINENCIS AND DEPRESSIONS OF SOIL A PREVAILING QUALITY OF THE PRARIES IN THIS PART OF THE STATE. IT IS CONSEQUENTLY EASY TO APPROACH A DEER NEAR ENOUGH TO SHOOT WHEN THE LEAVES AND GRASS MAKE NO NOISE. AT 3 I RETURNED TO THE CAMP WHERE THE HEAD CHIEF WHOM WE LEFT BEHIND YESTERDAY, HAD COME, WITH THE MINOR CHIEFS WHO HAD REMAINED BEHIND, AND SOME OTHER FAMILES.

DONE SEVERAL UNIMPORTANT THINGS BEFORE GOING BACK TO BED. (10-)

WENDESDAY 31ST OCT. 1832

AROSE AT 5 OC FED CURRIED AND ATTENDED MY HORSE, PUT ON A CLEAN SHIRT AND VEST! "SO I DID!!" & BREAKFASTED! AND THEN HAD THE WONDERFUL PLEASURE OF READING AN EPISTLE FROM HORACE BAPETT ESQ. ________ ETC. SENT BY EXRESS (?) FROM LEBANON TO GEN. D.M.WORKMAN, TELLING HIM THAT HE HAD SOME FLOUR AND THERE WAS A CREEK AHEAD!! WHAT WONDERFUL TIDINGS!! THE GEN. HAD DIRECTED HIM TO GET SOME FLOUR AND EXPECTED HE HAD DONE SO........

AT HALF PAST 8, ALL IS IN A HUBBUB OF PREPARATION TO START. AT 9 STARTED TO LEBANON WITH THE MAN WHO CAME ON EXPRESS(?) AND AT 11 ARRIVED AT THAT PLACE. IT IS A LIVELY LITTLE VILLAGE -- HARMONIOUSLY SITUATED IN ST. CLAIR CO. ILL. 12 MILES N.E. FROM BELLEVILLE, WHICH WE SHALL PASS TOMMORROW. I IMMEDIATELY RODE DOWN TO SILVER CREEK,

1 1/2 M. ON OUR ROAD, TO EXAMINE THE SITUATION AND PROSPECT FOR CAMPING; ON MY RETURN THE INDIANS WERE JUST COMMENCING TO PASS THROUGH IS : I PILOTED THEM TO THE PLACE SELECTED FOR THE ENCAMPMENT:

I RODE THREE OR FOOUR TIMES BACKWARD AND FOREWARD.

AT 4 STARTED TO ST. LOUIS; WENT 16 MILES & STAID ALL NIGHT.

Daniel Dunihue Diary, November 1832

THURSDAY 1ST NOV.

AROSE AT 5 AND WENT INTO TOWN, BOUGHT 3 BLANKET COATS, AND THREE BLANKETS: GOT TWO LETTERS AT THE P.O. ONE FROM BROTHER ALEXANDER; AND ONE FROM R.W.THOMPSON.

AT 12 STARTED TO BELLEVILLE, AND AT 3 ARRIVED AT THAT PLACE. WROTE A LETTER TO ALEXANDER; AND AFTER SUNSET STARTED TO THE CAMP WHICH I HAD LEFT LAST EVENING. GOT THERE AT 9.

I EXPECTED TO MEET THE INDIANS AT BILLIVILLE; BUT THEY DID NOT START TO-DAY. AT 8 ARRIVED AT SILVER-CREEK WHERE I FOUND THEM. TEHY HAVE BEEN WAITING FOR THE 2ND CHIEF WHO WAS BEHIND. WHEN HE ARRIVED IT WAS TOO LATE TO START. AT 10 I WENT TO BED.

FRIDAY 2D

IN THE MORNING, AFTER SHAVING, FEEDING MY HORSE, AND EATING MY BREAKFAST, I WENT UP TO LEBANON TO SEE M. BASSETT AS HE SENT ME INFORMATION BY GEN. WORKMAN THAT HE WAS VERY SICK AND DESIRED ME TO PAY HIM A VISIT BEFORE I LEFT THE CAMP ON OUR MARCH. HE SAID HE WAS VERY SICK BUT NOT SO UNWELL AS HE HAD BEEN. I THOUGHT SO MYSELF -- I MEAN THAT HE WAS NOT SO SICK AS HE HAD BEEN. I CHATTED WITH HIM A FEW MINUTES AND THEN RODE ON TOWARDS BELLVILLE, WITH THE FRONT FAMILY OF THE DETACHMENT. AT 1 WE PASSED THROUGH THAT PLACE; AND AT 3 ENCAMPED 6 MILES S. OF IT. I THEN ASSISTED TO MAKE FIRE, SPREAD MARQUEE, AND MAKE OTHER PREPARATIONS FOR SPENDING THE NIGHT AS COMFORTABLY AS POSSIBLE. AT 8 OC WENT TO A HOUSE HALF A MILE AWAY AND PROCURED SOME BUTTER AND MILK. AT 9 WENT TO BED AFTER WRITING IN MY JOURNAL.

SATURDAY 3D

STARTED ABOUT 9 FROM THE CAMP AND RODE ON WITH JAMES WORKMAN 4 MILES TO WHERE WE ENCAMPED. AT 4 I STARTED OUT TO HUNT & SAW FIVE DEER, ONE OF WHICH I SNAPPED AT. AT DARK RETURNED UNSUCCESSFUL. AT 9 WENT TO BED.

SUNDAY 4TH

JUST AFTER DAYBREAK I STARTED OUT WITH SOME INDIANS TO HUNT. I WNADERED AROUND FOR THREE HOURS, BUT SAW NOT A DEER, (WHAT I WENT TO HUNT FOR) AND GOT LOST BY TAKING A WRONG CREEK FOR MY GUIDE, -- HAVING GOT BELOW THE MOUTH OF A CREEK THAT PUT INTO THE ONE WE ENCAMPED ON, WHICH I KNEW NOT OF.

I WENT TO A FARMHOUSE IN A LARGE PRARIE AND WAS POLITELY INVITED TO PARTAKE OF THE FRUGAL FARE WHICH HAD JUST BEEN SPREAD UPON THE BOARD; I WITH THANKFULNESS ACCEPTED THE INVITATION FOR I WAS WEARY AND FAINT. MY HOSTESS (FOR THE LORD OF THE MANSION WAS NOT THERE) THEN VERY POLITELY DIRECTED ME INTO THE ROAD WHICH LED TO THE PLACE WHERE I HAD LEFT MY FRIENDS IN THE MORNING. I FORMED SEVERAL OF THEM THERE. THEY HAD SAVED ME SOME FOOD TO EAT WHEN I SHOULD RETURN. THE PRINCIPAL CHIEF OF THE SENICAS HAD LOST A HORSE AND WAS REMAINING TO HUNT FOR HIM.

ABOUT 10 OC I RODE ON WITH THE _______ AND OVERTOOK THE INDIANS. ABOUT 5 IN THE EVENING WE ALL ENCAMPED IN THE NECK OF LAND FORMED BY THE PARALLEL RUNNING THE KASKASKIA RIVER AND THE MISSISSIPPI A FEW MILES ABOVE THEIR JUNCTION.

MONDAY 5TH

EARLY THIS MORNING GEN. WORKMAN, MYSELF AND SOME OTHERS, RODE UP TO KASKASKIA TO SEE COL. PIERCE ______ ON SUBJECTS RELATING TO THE FUTURE MOVEMENTS OF THE DETACHMENT. WE WISHED TO LEARN THE BEST PLACE AND MANNER OF CROSSING. -- WE HAD BEEN RECCOMMENDED TO HIM BY THE SUPDT.

WE HAD TO CROSS THE KASKASKIA RIVER TO GET TO HIS HOUSE. WE SAW HIM; CHATTED WITH HIM ETC. AND AT 2 RODE DOWN TO THE RIVER TO SEE THE LANDING BOATS; AND FERRRYMEN. AT 3 RODE BACK TO CAMP; GOT SUPPER, CHATTED, SUNG, AND AT 9 WENT TO BED.

TUESDAY 6TH

EARLY THIS MORNING I WENT HALF A MILE FROM THE CAMP TO ASSIST THE INDIANS TO GATHER CORN IN THE FIELD WHICH WAS PURCHASED FOR THEIR HORSES. WE ALL PREPARED TO START TO THE RIVER TO GO ACROSS; ABOUT 10 WE ARRIVED ON THE BANK OF THE "FATHER WATERS." THE WIND BLEW SO SEVERLY THAT THE FERRYMEN REFUSED TO TAKE US ACROSS. WE HAD THEREFORE TO CAMP. WE PICKED AS GOOD A SITUATION AS WE COULD FIND IMMEDIATELY AT THE FERRY. ABOUT 1/3 OF THE DETACHMENT REMAINED AT CAMP WHERE THEY STAID LAST NIGHT.

I HAD THE PLEASURE OF MEETING MR. MERRITT, WHO HAS ACCOMPANIED THE SHAWNEE DETACHMENT THUS FAR, AND WHO WAS SENT FROM ST. CHARLES, ABOVE ST. LOUIS TO ACCOMPANY THIS PARTY ON FOR A FEW DAYS. HE BROUGHT A LETTER FROM COL. ALBERT TO GEN. WORKMAN, CONTAINING DIRECTIONS HOW TO PROCEED, & ETC.

IN THE EVENING I WORTE A LETTER TO R.W. THOMPSON. WE ARE TWO MILES FROM THE TOWN OF KASKASKIA, ON THE RIVER OF THE SAME NAME. IT IS AND OLD AND ILL-LOOKING PLACE, CONTAINING ABOUT FIVE HUNDRED INHABITANTS MOSTLY FRENCH. IT IS VERY HANDSOMELY SITUATED ON A WIDE AND RICH BOTTOM OF LAND WHICH EXTENDS FROM THE KASKASKIA RIVER TO THE MISSISSIPPI.

THIS TOWN IS ONE OF THE OLDEST IN THE WEST, AND, IF THE PEOPLE WHO LIVE IN IT, WERE ENTERPRISING, MIGHT SOON RIVAL ANY EXCEPT IN ST. LOUIS, AND POSSIBLY THAT. IT HAS ADVANTAGES BOTH IN SOIL AND WATER PRIVILEDGES. THE KASKASKIA RIVER RUNS INTO THE MISSIPPI ABOUT SIX MILES BELOW IT. THERE IS PLENTY OF GOOD WOOD AND WATER, AS WELL AS STONE FOR BUILDING.

AT 8 OC I WROTE IN MY JOURNAL OF OCCURANCES, AND IN THIS.

AT 10 WENT TO BED.

WENDESDAY 7TH

I AROSE EARLY IN THE MORNING AND ASSISTED THE INDIANS TO CROSS. ALL DAY I WAS BUSILY ENGAGED WITH THEM AND WITH THE FERRYMEN AND THE INDIANS. ABOUT TWO THIRDS OF HTE LATTER GOT ACROSS TODAY -- AT NIGHT, AFTER, THROUGH THE DAY, CROSSING BACKWARDS AND FORWARDS ABOUT 20 TIMES, I PUT UP AT THE HOUSE OF THE FERRYMEN ON THE ILLINOIS SIDE, WITH MR. MERRITT. CHATTED UNTIL BEDTIME -- HAD A GOOD DEAL OF FUN IN PLAGUING A FRENCH GIRL WHO WAS THERE, AND WHO COULD NOT TALK ENGLISH, ABOUT GETTING MARRIED, & C. & C.

AT 9 WENT TO BED.

TUESDAY 8TH

AROSE JUST AFTER LIGHT AND WENT DOWN TO THE CAMP AND GOT THE CHIEF WHO REMAINED THERE TO AROUSE HIS PEOPLE, AND HAVE THEM PREPARE TO CROSS THE RIVER AS SOON AS POSSIBLE.

THE INDIANS COMMENCED CROSSING EARLY IN THE MORNING BUT IT WAS AFTERNOON BEFORE THEY ALL SUCCEEDED IN GETTING OVER: SOME ______ THEIR HORSES AND WERE SEVERAL HOURS IN FINDING THEM -- SOME WERE VERY ______, AND EXHIBITED AN UTTER ______ ABOUT GOING OVER UNTIL AROUSED SEVERAL TIMES.

AT 2 OC P.M. MR. MERRITT CROSSED AND WENT TO ST. GENEVIEVE. AT HALF AN HOUR LATER TO THE SAME PLACE WITH GEN. LANE, WHO JUST ARRIVED TO SEE HIS BROTHER.

I MET GEN. WORKMAN, JAS. WORKMAN, MR. BASSETT, LT. LANE, M. LANE, & C. & C. AT ST. GENEVIEVE. THE COND. HAD NOT YET BEEN TO SEE THE CAMP -- NOR HAD JAS. M. (?) THEY HAD REMAINED IN TOWN SINCE YESTERDAY EVENING. IT WAS LATE IN the EVENING WHEN I ARRIVED OR I SHOULD HAVE WENT TO THE CAMP.

THIS EVENING I LEARNRED FROM GEN. W. THAT LT. LANE WAS TO CONTINUE WITH THIS DETACHMENT AND THAT MR. BAPETT WAS GOING HOME. MARTIN LANE ALSO IS GOING HOME IN THE MORNING. HE IS WILLING AND ANXIOUS TO GO, AND THE ______ & C. ARE WITHING THAT HE SHOULD GO.

I THIS EVENING GOT FROM LT. LANE THE AMT. OF COMMUNICATION(?) DUE ME FOR TRANSPORTATION & ______ FROM THE 19TH SEPT TO THE 31 OCT INCLUSIVE, BEING 86$.

I, AFTER SUPPER, WROTE A LETTER TO MY FATHER AND DIRECTED IT TO BEDFORD, IND. ENCLOSING IN A $20 BILL -- AND I ALSO WROTE ONE TO MISS E.J.K.

AT A LITTLE PAST 10 I WENT TO BED.

FRIDAY 9TH

THIS MORNING I WROTE A LETTER TO COZ. HARRIET E. GARDINER, AND PUT IN IT I WORTE SOMETHING ABOUT LT. LANE'S CONTINUING WITH HIS DETACHMENT, AND MR. BASSETT'S RETURNING HOME.

BOUGHT SEVERAL ARTICLES IN THE STORES, AND SENT SOME OF THE INDIANS OUT TO THE CAMP, AND THEN RODE OUT MYSELF WITH GEN. WORKMAN & HIS BROTHER JAMES.

I EAT MY SUPPER, SETTLED SOME ACCOUNTS, GOT SOME GRAPES, & C. & C.

AT 7 OC THE INDIANS COMMENCED SANCING AND SOME OF THEM VERY POLITELY INVITED ME TO JOIN WITH THEM AND I DONE SO.

LT. LANE WAS SENT FOR TO ATTEND THE DANCE. HE CAME JUST BEFORE THEY COMMENCED, AND JOINED IN THE RING. I WAS ALMOST TICKLED TO DEATH TO SEE WHAT "ANTIC SHINES HE CUT UP" WHEN A SQUAW BEGAN TO DANCE BEHIND HIM, AS IS THE CUSTOM AMONG THE INDIANS, AFTER THE MEN COMMENCE THE DANCE.

THEY CONTINUED THIS SPORT UNTIL 10 OC AND THEN I WENT TO BED -- THE INDIANS HAVING ALL DISPERSED.

SATURDAY 10TH

AROSE EARLY AND ASSISTED TO DIVIDE SOME CORN; AND AT 8 STARTED UP TO TOWN. BOUGHT A BUFFALOE ROBE, A BARREL OF BREAD (?) AND SOME OTHER ARTICLES, AND AT 12 OC STARTED BACK. THE INDIANS HAD NEARLY ALL LEFT THE CAMP. I CONTINUED ON TO THE CAMP ABOUT 8 MILES FURTHER. WROTE IN MY JOURNAL OF OCCURANCES, AND CHARGED AND CORRECTED SOME ACCOUNTS:

AT 9 WROTE IN THIS, AND AT HALF AN HOUR WENT TO BED.

SUNDAY 11TH

ATTENDED TO SEVERAL LITTLE THINGS NECESSARY TO EXPEDITE THE STARTING OF THE INDIANS AND THE WAGONS. AT 9 OC LEFT THE CAMP ON THE CREEK CALLED _______ AND MARCHED ON WITH THE INDIANS TO A CREEK CALLED BIG RIVER, 18 MILES. ATTENDED TO THE VARIOUS LITTLE THINGS NECESSARY MAKE COMFORTABLE IN THE NIGHT.

CHATTED ON POLITICS UNTIL 10 OC THEN WENT TO BED

MONDAY 12TH

IN the MORNING LEFT BIG-RIVER WITH THE FRONT PARTY OF INDIANS, AND WENT ON TO A CREEK CALLED NEW-DIGGING -- ON ACCOUNT OF THE MINORS HAVING LATELY COMMENCED ETTRACTING LEAD ORE FROM THE BANKS OF IT.

NEW-DIGGING IS ABOUT 18 MILES FROM BIG-RIVER AND THREE E. FROM POTOSI - A VILLAGE AT THE LEAD MINE DENOMINATED (?) THE MINE OF BURTON, BECAUSE THE PROPRIETOR OF HTE MINE WAS BY THAT NAME.

TUESDAY 13TH

AT 6 IN THE MORNING LEFT THE ENCAMPMENT AND PROCEEDED TO POTOSI WHERE I ENQUIRED WHAT THE PROSPECTS WERE FOR PROCURING FLOUR & MEAL; AND OF GETTING HORSES SHOD, & C. & C. AND SUCH OTHER SUBJECTS AS RELATED TO THE MOVEMENTS OF THE EMIGRATION.

I GOT MY HORSE SHOD, AND I GOT SOME LITTLE ARTICLES. I REMAINED THREE OR FOUR HOURS IN TOWN AND THEN PROCEEDED TO THE ENCAMPMENT, ONE MILE WEST OF THE TOWN, WHERE THEY REMAIN TO-DAY FOR THE PURPOSE OF GETTING THEIR HORSES SHOD -- THE ROADS FOR A FEW DAYS HAVE BEN VERY ROCKY, AND WILL BE SO FOR SEVERAL DAYS TRAVEL FURTHER.

I REMAINED AT THE CAMP ALL AFTERNOON. I WROTE THIS AFTER DARK AND DONE SOME OTHER LITTLE JOBS, WHICH WOULD ADD TO THE COMFORT OF THE TENT -- SUCH AS MAKING A FIRE, BED, & C.

THURSDAY 15TH

AT DAY BREAK AROSE -- MADE A FIRE, EAT BREAKFAST -- AND AT 8 OC STARTED UP TO TOWN TO BUY SOME SUGAR, POWDER LEAD, & C. AT 12 RETURNED & REMAINED TWO HOURS TO ASSIST IN THE SETTLEMENT OF ACCOUNTS FOR CORN, BEEF, & C.

AT 2 STARTED ON WITH GEN. WORKMAN AND LIEUT. LANE TO THE PLACE WHERE WE INTENDED CAMPING TO-NIGHT. AT 4 OC ARRIVED THERE -- 8 MILES. ASSISTED TO GATHER CORN, EAT SUPPER, WROTE SOME; AND WENT TO BED AFTER LAUGHING A GOOD DEAL AT SOME OF THE FUN OF THE INDIANS -- OR PROBABLY MORE PROPERLY SPEAKING -- AT INDIAN WIT -- WHICH WAS INDEED GOOD

FRIDAY 16TH

IN THE MORNING GATHERED CORN, EAT BREAKFAST. RODE ON WITH THE FOREMOST INDIANS AND CARRIED A GUN. AFTER RIDING A SHORT DISTANCE I LEFT THE ROAD ALONE TO HUNT FOR DEER. I SAW FIVE, BUT COULD NOT GET AN OPPERTUNITY OF SHOOTING AT ANY OF THEM. AT 12 OC WENT TO THE ROAD AND RODE SEVERAL MILES ON WITH THE INDIANS. GEN. WORKMAN WHO HAD BEEN OUT HUNTING TOO, AND SAW SEVERAL DEER, HAD JUST RETURNED; -- AFTER RIDING TOGETHER FOR SOME DISTANCE WE AGREED TO LEAVE THE ROAD AND ENDEAVOR TO KILL A BUCK FOR SUPPER -- HE WENT ON ONE SIDE AND I ON THE OTHER. HE SAW TWO DEER AND A FLOCK OF TURKEYS -- AND I SAW THREE DEER -- BOTH IN THE COURSE OF AN HOUR; BUT NEITHER OF US SHOT. AT 5 OC THE INDIANS ENCAMPED AT A DISTANCE OF 16 MILES FROM WHERE THEY STARTED IN THE MORNING. IN THE EVENING I WENT HUNTING AGAIN BUT SHOT AT NOTHING.

I WROTE A WHILE, EAT SUPPER, & C. & WENT TO BED.

SATURDAY 17TH

EARLY IN the MORNING I WENT HUNTING, AND REMAINED OUT THREE OR FOUR HOURS, BUT DID NOT SHOOT AT ANYTHING.

I ASSISTED TO MANURE CORN & DONE SOME OTHER LITTLE JOBS WHICH OCCUPIED MY TIME UNTIL NIGHT. ATTENDED A DANCE WHICH WAS TO FRIGHTEN THE WITCHES AWAY.

SUNDAY 18TH

I REMAINED ALL DAY AT THE CAMP AND DONE BUT LITTLE BUT LAUGHED, PLAYED THE FLUTE & C. & C. & C.

MONDAY 19TH

THIS MORNING IT SNOWED, AND WAS A VERY COLD DAY -- THE INDIANS REFUSED TRAVELLING, SAYING IT WAS TOO COLD FOR THEIR WOMEN & CHILDREN. A PROPOSITION WAS MADE TO THEM BY LT. LANE, BEFORE HE CONSULTED WITH ANYBODY, TO THIS EFFECT -- THAT HE WOULD FURNISH WAGGONS HEREAFTER IN COLD WEATHER FOR THE WOMEN AND CHILDREN TO RIDE IN IF THEY WOULD GO ON. I THOUGHT IT WAS SOMEWHAT STRANGE THAT A MAN IN HIS SITUATION WOULD DO SUCH A THING FOR IT WAS FAR FROM HIS DUTY, HIS RIGHT, AND HIS PRIVILEDGE, AS IT WAS FROM THAT OF ONE OF OUR TEAMSTERS. WHAT, A DISBURSING AGENT _______ TO DIRECT THE MAN NEW(?) OF TRANSPORTATION(?) IT IS ASTONISHING -- AND HE DONE IT TOO WITHOUT ANY REFERENCE TO THE OPINIONS OF THE COND. OF HIS ASST. FOR MY PART I SAT QUIET BY DAWN AND LLISTENED TO THE REPRESENTATION OF THE INDIANS OF WHAT HE HAD SAID TO THEM. THEY CONTENDED MANFULLY FOR THE FULFILLMENT OF THE PROMISE. THE APPEARANCE OF THE HEAVENS INDICATES FAIR WEATHER AFTER THIS DAY. the COND. THEREFORE AFTER CONSULTING WITH MYSELF AND ONE OR TWO OTHERS CONCLUDED THAT THE PLAN WAS NOT A WORTHY ONE. LT. LANE ABOUT THIS TIME MADE HIS APPERANCE, AND, FINDING THE TENOR OF THE SUBJECT CONTENDED FOR HIS PLAN, BUT SAID HE ONLY ENQUIRED OF THE INDIANS HOW MANY OF THE WOMEN AND CHILDREN SHOULD BE CARRIED IN WAGGONS -- AND THAT IF IT WAS THOUGHT EXPEDIENT TO PROCURE THEM; AFTER A CONSULTATION WITH GEN. W. HE WOULD PROCURE THEM. WHAT HE AND GEN W. WOULD DETERMINE UPON THE SUBJECT -- WHAT A PRETTY PIECE OF BUSINESS!! HE AND GEN W. CONSULT!! IS HE THE PERSON POINTED OUT AS/OR (?) THE PROPOSE A CONSULTATION WITH A COND. OF INDIANS UPON A SUBJECT WHICH RELATES ENTIRELY TO THE MANNER IN WHICH THEY SHALL TRAVEL? AND HAS HE ANY RIGHT TO DETERMINE IN WHAT MANNER, AND AT WHAT TIMES AND WHAT DISTANCES THE INDIANS SHALL TRAVEL? IF SO, I OWN THAT I HAVE ALWAYS BEEN SO DULL AS TO MISCOMPREHEND THE MEANING OF THE TERM DISBURSING AGENT.

BUT IT IS NOT FOR ME TO CONSURE -- MY STATIONS SHALL BE FILLED AS WELL AS I AM CAPABLE OF FILLING IT, NO MATTER HOW OTHERS OVERSTEP THEIRS, OR ASSUME THOSE POSITIONS WHICH THEY ARE NOT ENTITLED TO MEDDLE WITH. I SHALL HOWEVER _______ MY PEROGATIVE WHILE I RETAIN THE NAME OF ASSISTANT COMDR.

I AM FOND OF OBSERVING THE VARIOUS TRAITS OF THE HUMAN CHARACTER. I WOULD NINE TIMES OUT OF TEN PUT MYSELF TO INCONVENIENCE FOR THE SAKE OF ADDING "A DROP TO THE PAIL-FULL" OF MY KNOWLEDGE OF MANKIND, WHERE I THINK THAT THE ACQUISITION WOULD EVER BE NECESSARY IN ANY SCENE IN WHICH I AM CONCERNED DURING MY PERIGRINATION (?) ON THIS EARTH. I WISH MINUTELY TO _______ THE FORMATION OF THE MINDS OF ALL THOSE WITH WHOM I ASSOCIATE EITHER FROM NECESSITY OR CHOICE.

I HAVE ALWAYS BEEN GIFTED WITH THE PERFECT COMMAND OF MY TONGUE, AND IT GENERALLY REMAINS SILENT WHEN THERE IS NO NECESSITY FOR ITS USE.

TUESDAY 20TH

THIS DAY I WAS ENGAGED UNTIL ABOUT 12 O.C. INPREPARING TO START. WE THEN MARCHED ON. ONE ADDITIONAL TEAM WAS THIS MORNING ENGAGED. GEN. WORKMAN HAVING CONCLUDED TO TRY THE EXPERIMENT OF TAKING MORE WOMEN & CHILDREN THAN USUAL.

AT 12 RODE ON WITH THE FOREMOST INDIANS TO THE PLACE WHERE WE ENCAMPED ABOUT 3 O.C. AT THE DISTANCE OF ONLY SEVEN MILES.

I THEN ASSISTED GEN. W. LT. L. MR. JONES, AND THEN CUT WOOD, MAKE FIRE & C. & C.

WEDNESDAY 21ST

THIS MORNING WE HURRIED THE INDIANS AND GOT ON the MARCH CONSIDERABLY EARLIER THAN USUAL. I RODE AHEAD WITH MR. JONES & GEN. W. AND EACH OF US CARRIED A GUN. OUR DAY'S TRAVEL WAS TO BE 18 MILES. JONES & MYSELF LEFT THE ROAD TO HUNT FOR AN HOUR OR TWO -- WE SAW TWO DEER, BUT COULD NOT SHOOT AT THEM WITH ANY PROBABILITY OF SUCCESS. WE LEFT GEN. W. BEHIND AND RODE ON BEFORE WE WERE WITHIN SIX MILES OF THE PLACE OF ENCAMPMENT, WHERE WE AWAITED THE ARRIVAL OF THE INDIANS, (UNDER THE ESCORT OF THE INTERPRETER WHOM WE SENT ON) AND GEN. WORKMAN. WHEN THE LATTER ARRIVED, WITH THE WAGGONS, AND GOT SOME BREAD & MEAT AND FEASTED BOUNTIFULLY BY SOLITARY FIRE, ADMIST THE SOLITARY HILLS OF THE INTERIOR OF MISSOURI. TO THIS PLACE WE HAS COME 19 OR 20 MILES THROUGH AN UTTER WILDERNESS WITHOUT SEEING A HOUSE. AFTER REFRESHING OURSELVES WE RODE ON AND OVER TOOK THE INDIANS AND WENT ON WITH THEM. THE PLACE OF THIS CAMP IS ON THE MERRIMACK RIVER. THERE IS TWO OR THREE FAMILIES LIVING ON IT WITH AS MANY MILES OF TH EROAD. THE ROAD TO THIS PLACE, EVEN FROM THE RIVER, HAS BEEN, AND WILL ALWAYS BE A MISERABLE ONE. WE CAN, HOWEVER, PROCURE CORN HERE FOR THE INDIAN HORSES.

IN THE EVENING LT. L. GEN W. MR. JONES & MYSELF AMUSED OURSELVES BY PLAYING A GAME OF CARDS, WITH SOME BORROWED OF THE INDIANS.

TUESDAY 22ND

THIS MORNING THE CHIEFS CAME TO THE MARQUEE AND TOLD THE COMD. THAT AS IT WAS RAINING, THEY WOULD NOT LEAVE THE CAMP TO-DAY. AFTER A GOOD DEAL OF CAVELLING, AND PERSUASION TO PREVAIL ON THEM TO GO WHICH PROOVED IN VAIN, HE TOLD THEM THEY MIGHT REMAIN; BUT TOLD THEM FURTHER THAT THEY MUST DEPEND UPON GOING TO-MORROW IF IT WAS POSSIBLE TO TRAVEL.

IN THE EVENING I WENT OUT HUNTING GOT TWO HOURS. I SAW ONE TURKEY AND SEVERAL SQUIRRELS AT WHICH I DID NOT SHOOT.

WHEN I RETURNED I ASSISTED TO HUSK CORN, MAKE FIRE, EAT SUPPER, & C.

AFTER NIGHT I WROTE FOR ABOUT TWO HOURS.

FRIDAY 23RD

I LEFT THE ENCAMPMENT WITH GEN W. & MR. JONES __ EACH WITH A GUN. THE GEN. & MYSELF LEFT THE ROAD, AND CHASED SOME DOGS FOR SEVERAL MILES, WHICH WE SUPPOSED WERE FOLLOWING A BEAR. WE WERE MISTAKEN HOWEVER -- IN THE WOOD THE GEN. & I SEPERATED -- HE WENT TO THE ROAD, AND I CONTINUED HUNTING -- I SAW FIVE DEER BUT COULD NOT GET A GOOD OPPORTUNITY TO SHOOT AT ANY OF THEM.

AFTER RIDING FOR PROBABLY 10 MILES, I RETURNED TO THE ROAD, AND CONTINUED WITH THE INDIANS. NEAR THE CAMP GEN W. SHEW ME A DEER WHICH I SHOT AT BUT MISSED.

IN THE EVENING I CHATTED, AND ATTENDED TO THE VARIOUS DUTIES WHICH IT HAS BEEN CUSTOMARY FOR ME TO PERFORM FOR THE LAST FEW WEEKS: SHOT AT A MARK WITH LT. L. AND BEAT HIM.

SATURDAY 24TH

IN THE MORNING I REMAINED WITH JAS. WOKMAN UNTIL ALL THE INDIANS EXCEPT TWO OR THREE HAD LEFT THE CAMP. TWO OF THE TEAMSTERS LOST THEIR HORSES, WHICH CAUSED THIS DELAY.

I WENT OUT WITH ONE OF THE CHIEFS WHO REMAINED, TO ASSIST TO FIND THE HORSES -- I GOT OUT OF MY COURSE IN CONSEQUENCE OF NOT KNOWING THE DIRECTION OF THE ROAD, WHICH VARIED FORM THE COURSE WHICH WE HAVE BEEN PRUSUING FOR SEVERAL DAYS. I SAW A DEER WHICH I SHOT AT TWICE WITH MY PISTOL ABOUT 25 YARDS AND EXPECTED TO KILL BUT WAS MISTAKEN.

I REGAINED THE ROAD AND RETURNED TO THE CAMP WITHOUT FURTHER DIFFICULTY. THEY HAD BEEN SHOOTING FOR ME -- AND SUPPOSED ME LOST.

I RODE ON WITH MR. W & JACKSON, THE CHIEFS, TO THE NEW CAMP, 16 MILES.

WROTE IN MY JOURNAL & C.

FROM THE 24TH TO THE 29TH IN CONSEQUENCE OF MY INK BEING OUT I HAVE NOT CONTINUED THIS THING. OUR TIME, AND MY TIME, HAVE BEEN SPENT IN A SIMILAR MANNER DURING THAT TIME.

I WAS OUT WITH AN INDIAN UNTIL ABOUT 9 O.C. ONE NIGHT UPON A HUNT. ABOUT 20 GUNS WERE FIRED AND SEVERAL MEN _______ FOR SOME TIME

______ TO ______ OUR COURSE TO THE CAMP ______. WE WERE NOT LAST, BUT SOEMWHAT BELATED AND LED ASTRAY.

FRIDAY 30TH

THIS MORNING AFTER BREAKFAST I WENT INTO THE WOODS A VERY LARGE TURKEY.

IN THE EVENING I WENT OUT AGAIN AND SAW SOME DEER WHICH I CHASED FOR A CONSIDERABLE DISTANCE. -- I RETURNED -- READ NEWSPAPER & C. & C. THE INDIANS REMAINED IN CAMP TO-DAY.

SATURDAY 31ST

EARLY IN THE MORNING I STARTED WITH LT. LANE TO FIND SOME TURKEYS WHICH I SAW ON THEIR ______ LAST EVENING. THEY WERE GONE -- WE BOTH GOT VERY WET -- FOR IT HAD RAINED NEARLY ALL NIGHT, AND CONTINUED IN THE MORNING AND INDEED NEARLY ALL DAY.

IN THE EVENING I WENT WITH TWO OR THREE PERSONS TO FELL A BEE TREE -- IT WAS A VERY LARGE ONE, BUT CURIOSITY -- THAT DEMON! WAS THE ONLY THING WHICH TEMPTED ME TO GO ON SUCH A DAY, AND SUCH A DISTANCE (ABOUT A MILE AND A HALF) UPON SUCH AN ERRAND. IT TOOK FOUR MEN CHOPPING FOR ABOUT TWO HOURS TO GET IT DOWN. WE ALL HAD AS MUCH HONEY AS WE WISHED TO EAT AND THERE WAS LEFT ABOUT TWO GALLONS. -- I THEN RODE BACK, THROUGH THE DARK & RAIN, TO THE CAMP --EAT SUPPER -- WROTE IN MY JOURNAL -- &C. &C. AND WENT TO BED.

TO-DAY THE DIR. AST. EXCEEDED THE LIMITS OF HIS AUTHORITY. HE BOUGHT FOR THE INDIANS 71/2 BUS. TURNIPS WITHOUT A REQUISITION HAVING BEEN MADE UPON HIM, OR WITHOUT THE ADVICE OR KNOWLEDGE OF THE CONDR.

HE WILL, I SUPPOSE, ACCOUNT FOR SUCH ARTICLES HIMSELF.

A WAY BILL FROM THE MISSISSIPPI RIVER (AT ST. GENEVIEVE) TO THE SENECA AGENCY -- CORNER OF ARKANSAS TERRITORY.

MILES

FROM ST. GENEVIEVE TO POTOSI 45

FROM POTOSI TO(?) FORK OF THE

GASCONADE RIVER (?) 25

FROM G(?)AS TO MR. CLINTON'S FARM --

NO HOUSE BETWEEN! 25

FROM CLINTON'S TO BALDRIDGE'S

NO HOUSE BETWEEN 30

FROM BALDRIDGE'S TO THE SAW-MILL ON

THE GASCONADE WHERE WALTON LIVES 8

FROM WALTON'S TO THOMPSON'S

NO HOUSE BETWEEN 31

FROM THO. TO DAN'S 21

FROM DAN'S TO WHITE RIVER --

WHERE THE DELAWARE TOWNS WHERE MR. MARSHALL'S)

HAS A TRADING HOUSE 53

FROM WHITE RIVER TO ______.

GIBSON'S 22

FROM GIBSON'S TO THE NEXT HOUSE 15

FROM HERE TO _____. OLIVER'S 6

FROM OLS TO THE AGENCY ON THE RIGHT HAND --

OR RIDGE ROAD -- WHICH IS THE BEST 40

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AND FROM THE SENECA AGENCY TO GRAND RIVER -- 12 MILES

SEN. AG. IS WITHIN A MILE OF THE COWSKIN (?) RIVER -- A BEAUTIFUL STREAM. AND GRAND RIVER WAS ADMIRABLY NAMED.

Daniel Dunihue Diary, December 1832

SUNDAY 2D. DEC. '32

ABOUT 12 O.C. WE ALL, EXCEPTING 3 OR 4 FAMILIES, LEFT THE ENCAMPENT. I ASSISTED THE INDIANS IN CROSSING THE CREEK, WHICH WE CROSSED SEVERAL TIMES.

WE TRAVELLED ONLY 8 MILES.

I SWAM THE CREEK TWICE DURING THE DAY. LT. L. WADED IN ONCE, WHICH EXHIBITED ONE SHALLOW PLACE IN HIS CRANIUM. A SQUAW WHICH HE TALKS A GREAT DEAL ABOUT EVERYDAY WAS THERE -- AND TO SHOW THAT HE WAS FEARLESS HE WENT UP TO HIS CROTCH.

MONDAY 3D

THE WAGGONS STARTED ONE WAY THIS MORNING AND THE INDIANS THE OTHER. MR. WORKMAN & MYSELF WENT WITH the WAGGONS. WE MARCHED 14 MILES OVER A VERY ROUGH ROAD.

TUESDAY 4TH

WE STARTED EARLY THIS MORNING AND REACHED 20 MILES. DURING THE DAY I SAW 26 DEER, SOME OF WHICH I COULD HAVE SHOT IF I HAD A GUN.

IN THE EVENING MR. JONES, W. & MYSELF RODE 5 MILES AND PROCURED SOME CORN FOR THE TEAMS WHICH MR. W & MYSELF PACKED ON HORSES TO THE CAMP; TO WHICH PLACE WE ARRIVED JUST AT DUSK -- JUST BEFORE the WAGGONS GOT UP.

TO-DAY CIVIL JOHN AND THREE OR FOUR FAMILIES FOUND THE WAGGONS AND ENCAMPED WITH US AT NIGHT.

WEDNESDAY 5TH

WE ALL STARTED ON TOLERABLY EARLY IN THE MORNING. AT 12 THE WAGGONERS STOPPED TO FEED THEIR HORSES AFTER TRAVELLING 5 MILES. IN THE EVENING AFTER EATING BREAD AND MILK WE ALL MARCHED OUT TO WHITE RIVER, 13 MILES. THE WAGGONS GOT HERE JUST BEFORE DARK.

IN AN HOUR OR TWO LT LN. JOINED US. THEN HE BEGAN TO ORDER AND COUNSEL. HE REALLY DISGUSTED ME. I AM SURPRISED THAT A MAN OF COMMON SENSE WILL ENDEAVOR TO TAKE THE LIBERTIES OF DIRECTING WHICH THIS FELLOW DOES.

THURSDAY 6TH

WE REMAINED TO-DAY AT THE ENCAMPMENT TO AWAIT THE ARRIVAL OF THE INDIANS -- THEY ARRIVED LATE IN THE EVENING, AFTER HAVING TRAVELLED ABOUT 22 MILES.

IN THE NIGHT I ASSISTED TO DISTRIBUTE CORN TO THEM.

FRIDAY 7TH

I ASSISTED THIS MORNING TO DISTRIBUTE CORN & MEAL TO THE INDIANS.

ABOUT 11 O.C. WE LEFT THE ENCAMPMENT & JAMES WORKMAN & MYSELF RODE ON WITH THE FOREMOST INDIANS. WE CROSSED WHITE RIVER AND MARCHED 9 MILES BEYOND IT. IT WAS A COLD AND DISAGREEABLE DAY. WE HAD SOME DIFFICULTY IN KINDLING A FIRE.

SATURDAY 8TH

ABOUT 9 O.C. WE LEFT THE CAMP AND MARCHED 12 MILES.

IN THE EVENING I HUNTED A LITTLE WHILE AND KILLED A GROUSE. I THEN ASSISTED TO DISTRIBUTE CORN TO THE INDIANS.

SUNDAY 9TH

WE STARTED THIS MORNING WE STARTED PRETTY EARLY AND ENCAMPED ABOUT 4 O.C. AT THE DISTANCE OF 15 MILES. BAPTISTE (?) AND MYSELF WENT FROM THE ROAD AND HUNTED FOR TWO OR THREE HOURS. I SAW 12 DEER TOGETHER BUT COULD NOT GET A SHOOT.

WE ENCAMPED ON THE POMLITA CREEK, A BRANCH OF THE SEASHO RIVER.

IN THE NIGHT JOINED IN A DANCE FOR A FEW MINUTES.

MONDAY 10TH

TO-DAY WE LEFT THE ENCAMPMENT TOLERABLY EARLY WITH THE INTENTION OF TRAVELLING 16 MILES, TO A PLACE THAT WAS SAID TO BE A GOOD CAMPING GROUND. AT 12 WE ARRIVED AT COL. OLIVER'S, 6 MILES; AND IN CONSEQUENCE OF HIS CORN NOT BEING GATHERED FROM THE FIELD, NOR HIS BUGS(?) KILLED, WE WERE COMPELLED TO ENCAMP NEAR HIM. WE TRAVELLED A MILE FARTHER AND ENCAMPED. GEN. W. & MYSELF ASSISTED TO HUSK CORN. ABOUT SUNSET WE WENT TO CAMP, AND ASSISTED TO DISTRIBUTE THE CORN. IT IS 40 MILES TO SENECA TOWN.

TUESDAY 11TH

THIS MORNING I WENT FROM THE ENCAMPMENT TO COL. OLIVER'S -- (1 MILE) EARLY WITH GEN. W. TO GET CORN AND PORK FOR THE INDIANS. AT 8 WE RETURNED AND AT 10 THE IND. STARTED ON -- I RODE BACK WITH JAS. W. AND REMAINED 2 HOURS. WE THEN RODE ON 12 MILES, AND MR. W. SHOT AT AND WOUNDED A DEER. I THEN CHOOSE THE TWO OTHERS THAT WERE WITH IT -- AND KILLED A FINE FAT DOE. I GAVE THE HIDE TO AN INDIAN FOR TAKING IT OFF THE DEER. WE THEN RODE TO THE CAMP, 1 MILE.