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Book Title: Counties Of Warren, Benton, Jasper And Newton, Indiana

THE INDIANS.

   For several hundred years prior to the appearance of the white race, all the
United States was inhabited by this people. Who they were or how they came here
is unknown. As far back as definite accounts can be had, the Miamis occupied the
following tract of country: From Detroit south to the Ohio River, thence down
the same to the mouth of the Wabash, thence up the same to about the boundary
between Vermillion and Warren Counties, thence north to the southern extremity
of Lake Michigan, thence east to Detroit. This fact comes from various reliable
sources, the most noteworthy being from Mish-'e-ken-o-quah, or Little Turtle, a
Miami Indian of great intelligence and renown, who lived in Northern Indiana
during the latter part of the eighteenth century and the first of the
nineteenth. Warren County was thus on the boundary between the Miamis and the
Kickapoos of Illinois. This was the condition of things previous to about one
hundred years ago. But from 1780 to the war of 1812, so great was the rush of
white settlers into Eastern Ohio that the Indians resident there were compelled
to abandon their ancient home and seek a new one farther west, and thus numerous
other tribes began to invade the domain of the Miamis. The Pottawatomies soon
occupied almost all of Indiana north of the Wabash, while the Miamis retired
mostly south of that river. Thus Warren County was so situated that Miamis,
Pottawatomies and Kickapoos were found within its borders by the French traders
who began to come up the Wabash from Vincennes in pirogues loaded with whisky
and trinkets to trade with the Indians as early, probably, as the beginning of
the present century, and certainly before the war of 1812. The Wabash had been
the highway of travel for Frenchmen and missionaries between Detroit and the
French settlements at Vincennes and at several places in Illnois since the
latter part of the seventeenth century, and it is not unlikely that temporary
trading posts were established in Warren County at very early periods.


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PART II.
HISTORY OF WARREN COUNTY.
Geology and Settlement

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COUNTIES OF 
Warren, Benton, Jasper and Newton,
INDIANA

HISTORICAL AND BIOGRAPHICAL
ILLUSTRATED.

CHICAGO: F. A. BATTEY & CO., PUBLISHERS.
1883.


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