r of his whereabouts. He was reticent
about his life among the Indians, and no details of that
feature of his career became known to his white friends."

Tecumseh, who is said to have been born on Hacker's Creek,
possibly at a village near the mouth of Jesse's Run, visited
the white settlements there, after the peace, and told the
whites of his experiences in connection with the Waggoner
massacre.--R. G. T.

[2] It must be acknowledged that many of these militia forays
against the Indians partook of the nature of buccaneering. The
spoils were often considerable. Clark, in his Kaskaskia campaign
(1778), captured so much booty, in property and slaves, that he
declares his men were made "almost rich."--R. G. T.

[3] In the spring of 1792, Major Trueman, Colonel Hardin,
and Mr. Freeman were dispatched from Fort Washington by
different routes, to open peace negotiations, but they were
murdered by the savages. Gen. Rufus Putnam, aided by
Hekewelder, the Moravian, succeeded in binding the Wabash and
Illinois Indians to keep the peace. Later, Benjamin Lincoln,
Timothy Pickering, and Beverly Randolph were ordered by the
president to go to the Maumee to conclude a general treaty
which Indians had declared their willingness to enter into. But
the commissioners were detained at Niagara by sham conferences
with Gov. John Graves Simcoe, of Canada, until the middle of
July, when the Indians sent them word that unless they would in
advance "agree that the Ohio shall remain the boundary between
us," the proposed "meeting would be altogether unnecessary."
The commissioners declined to accept this ultimatum, and
returned home. Meanwhile, General Wayne was prosecuting
preparations for an active campaign against the hostiles.--R.
G. T.

[4] On a plain near the old French-Indian-English trading
village, called Logstown (just below the present Economy, Pa.,
on the north side of the Ohio, 18 miles below Pittsburg),
Wayne's army lay encamped from November, 1792, to April 30,
1793. The army was fancifully called the "Legion of the United
States," and the camp was known as Legionville. From here,
Wayne proceeded to Cincinnati, and took up his headquarters in
Fort Washington.--R. G. T.

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