ion, 40th Congress, Vol. VII,
Document No. 9, p. 16.

[511] Renville to Sibley, February 22, 1835.--_Sibley Papers,
1830-1840_. A story is told of a certain "Simple-hearted, honest fellow"
named Sinclair. "One time he was sick, at Mendota, and Surgeon Emerson,
at the fort, sent by some one, a box of pills, for him to take a dose
from. N. W. Kittson called on him a little while after this, and found
that Sinclair had not only swallowed all the pills, but was then chewing
up the box!"--Williams's _A History of the City of Saint Paul_, p. 123.

[512] _Minnesota Historical Collections_, Vol. II, pp. 127, 129.

[513] Snelling to Taliaferro, October 19, 1824.--_Taliaferro Letters_,
Vol. I, No. 50.

[514] _Taliaferro's Diary_, July 13, 14, 1834; _Indian Office Files_,
1834, No. 239.

[515] _Taliaferro's Diary_, July 21, 1834.

[516] _Indian Office Files_, 1837, Nos. 448, 447, 445.

[517] _The Auto-biography of Maj. Lawrence Taliaferro_ in the _Minnesota
Historical Collections_, Vol. VI, p. 231.

[518] _Executive Documents_, 3rd Session, 40th Congress, Vol. VII,
Document No. 9, pp. 14, 15.

[519] _Executive Documents_, 3rd Session, 40th Congress, Vol. VII,
Document No. 9, pp. 16, 17.

[520] _Executive Documents_, 3rd Session, 40th Congress, Vol. VII,
Document No. 9, pp. 18, 23.

[521] _Minnesota Historical Collections_, Vol. II, p. 136; Williams's _A
History of the City of Saint Paul_, pp. 66, 67.

[522] _Executive Documents_, 3rd Session, 40th Congress, Vol. VII,
Document No. 9, pp. 23, 24.

[523] _Executive Documents_, 3rd Session, 40th Congress, Vol. VII,
Document No. 9, pp. 26, 27.

[524] _The Spirit of Missions_, Vol. V, p. 335, November, 1840. A recent
sketch of Fort Snelling states that there were "no white neighbors
except traders, agents of fur companies, refugees from civilization and
disreputable hangers-on."--Hammond's _Quaint and Historic Forts of North
America_, p. 272. Many of the evicted settlers can not be classed among
these.

[525] This order is published in Williams's _A History of the City of
Saint Paul_, p. 94.

[526] For the expulsion of the settlers see Williams's _A History of the
City of Saint Paul_, pp. 99, 100; also, Neill's _The History of
Minnesota_ (Fourth Edition), p. 459. Williams (p. 100) says that in 1849
and 1852 memorials were presented to Congress by those who had been
expelled, in which they stated that "the soldiery fell upon them without
warning, treated them with u