. History of Pike and Dubois Counties, Indiana. don, who was said to bevery zealous and apt in the acquisition of languages, had a stationon the St. Joseph about 60 miles above the mouth. Charlevoix,another distinguished missionary from France, visited a post onthis river in 1721. In a letter dated at the place, Aug. 16, he says: There is a commandant here, with a small garrison. His house,which is but a very sorry one, is called the fort, from its being sur-rounded with an indifierent palisado, which is pretty near the casein all the rest. We have here two villages of Indians, one of theMiami
. History of Pike and Dubois Counties, Indiana. don, who was said to bevery zealous and apt in the acquisition of languages, had a stationon the St. Joseph about 60 miles above the mouth. Charlevoix,another distinguished missionary from France, visited a post onthis river in 1721. In a letter dated at the place, Aug. 16, he says: There is a commandant here, with a small garrison. His house,which is but a very sorry one, is called the fort, from its being sur-rounded with an indifierent palisado, which is pretty near the casein all the rest. We have here two villages of Indians, one of theMiamis and the other of the Pottawatomies, both of them mostlyChristians; but as they have been for a long time without any pas-tors, the missionary who has been lately sent to them will have noamall difficulty in bringing them back to the exercise of their re^ligion. He speaks also of the main commodity for which the Int?dians would part with their goods, namely, spirituous liquors,which they drink and keep drunk upon as long as a supply INDIANS ATTACKLNQ FEONTIJEBBMBN. HISTORY OF INDIANA. 45 More than a century and a half has now passed since Charlevoixpenned the above, without any change whatever in this trait of In-dian character. In 1765 the Miami nation, or confederacy, was composed of fourtribes, whose total number of warriors was estimated at only 1,050men. Of these about 250 were Twightwees, or Miamis proper,300 Weas, or Ouiatenons, 300 Piankeshawsand 200 Shockeys; andat this time the principal villages of the Twightwees were situatedabout the head of the Maumee river at and near the place whereFort Wayne now is. The larger Wea villages were near the banksof the Wabash river, in the vicinity of the Post Ouiatenon; andthe Shockeys and Piankeshaws dwelt on the banks of the Vermil-lion and on the borders of the Wabash between Yincennes andOuiatenon. Branches of the Pottawatomie, Shawnee, Delaware andKickapoo tribes were permitted at different times to enter withinthe
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