. Indiana and Indianans : a history of aboriginal and territorial Indiana and the century of statehood . then called; and tookit for a reference to Vincennes; and this caused him to abandon theuniform tradition that the settlement was begun by the Sieur de Vin-cennes. The error was quickly pointed out, but Judge Law refused toabandon it; and subsequent writers tried to fortify his position by fic-titious records and manufactured tradition. In reality local traditionwas exhausted half-a-century before Judge Laws time, by ilajor HenryVanderburgh. Winthrop Sargent, the Secretary of Northwest Terr
. Indiana and Indianans : a history of aboriginal and territorial Indiana and the century of statehood . then called; and tookit for a reference to Vincennes; and this caused him to abandon theuniform tradition that the settlement was begun by the Sieur de Vin-cennes. The error was quickly pointed out, but Judge Law refused toabandon it; and subsequent writers tried to fortify his position by fic-titious records and manufactured tradition. In reality local traditionwas exhausted half-a-century before Judge Laws time, by ilajor HenryVanderburgh. Winthrop Sargent, the Secretary of Northwest Terri- INDIANA AND INDIANANS 115 tory, had been charged with the duty of carrying out the provisionsof a resolution of Congress, adopted in 1788, for adjusting the laudclaims of the French settlers. He called on Vanderburgh for informa-tion as to the Vincennes settlement, and he could not have made a bet-ter selection. Vanderburgh was born at Troy, N. Y., in 1760, and en-tered the 5th New York Regiment, Continental Line, as lieutenant, atthe age of sixteen, being later promoted to captain. He came west. Judge John Law about 1788 and located at Vincennes, where, in February, 1790, hemarried Frances Cornoyer, daughter of Pierre Cornoyer, one of theprincipal residents of the place. In 1791 Gov. St. Clair appointed himJustice of the Peace and Probate Judge for Knox County. In 1799 hewas selected by President Adams as a member of the Legislative Coun-cil of the Territory, and was chosen President of that body. In 1800he was made one of the Judges of the Supreme Court of Indiana Terri-tory, and held that office until his death on April 5, 1812. It was his 116 INDIANA AND INDIANANS son whose tragic death, while acting as agent for the American Fur Com-pany, is recounted by Irving in The Adventures of Captain Bonne-ville. Judge Vanderburghs report to Sargent is in these words: In answer to Col. Sargents enquiries, Major Vanderburgh has thehonor of replying as follows, viz. Vincennes had it
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