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cennes after an exhausting journey, but having kept 

 possession of his "two small trunks." 44 



Two or three weeks after this misadventure of the 

 unlucky historian, a party of twenty-five Americans, 

 under a captain named Daniel Sullivan, 45 were at 

 tacked while working in their cornfields at Vin- 

 cennes. 46 They rallied and drove back the Indians, 

 but two of their number were wounded. One of 

 the wounded fell for a moment into the hands of 

 the Indians and was scalped; and though he after 

 ward recovered, his companions at the time expected 

 him to die. They marched back to Vincennes in 

 furious anger, and finding an Indian in the house of 

 a Frenchman, they seized and dragged him to their 

 block-house, where the wife of the scalped man, 

 whose name was Donelly, shot and scalped him. 



This greatly exasperated the French, who kept a 

 guard over the other Indians who were in town, 

 and next day sent them to the woods. Then their 

 head men, magistrates, and officers of the militia, 

 summoned the Americans before a council, and or 

 dered all who had not regular passports from the 

 local court to leave at once, "bag and baggage." This 

 created the utmost consternation among the Ameri 

 cans, whom the French outnumbered five to one, 



44 Do., Filson's Journal. 



45 Do., Daniel Sullivan to G. R. Clark, June 23, 1786. 

 Small's letter says June 2ist. 



44 State Dept. MSS. Papers Continental Congress, No. 

 150, Vol. II, Letter of J. M. P. Legrace. "Au G6n6ral George 

 Rog< Clarck a la Chute" (at the Palls Louisville), July 22, 

 1786. 



