p. 225

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his 1851-1857 publications, Historical and Statistical Information Respecting the History,
Condition and Prospects of the Indian Tribes of the United States.

⁸³Captain John L. Smith of the U. S. Corps of Engineers not only did the preparatory
examinations for the Wabash and Erie Canal and the improvement of the Wabash River,
but also examined sites for a federal armory in Indiana.

⁸⁴D. Lapham to I. A. Lapham, 16 June 1828. Copy, Lapham MSS., State Historical
Society of Wisconsin and Ohio Historical Society.

⁸⁵I. A. Lapham to D. Lapham, 22 June 1828. Copy, Lapham MSS., State Historical
Society of Wisconsin and Ohio Historical Society.

⁸⁶D. Lapham to I. A. Lapham, 23 June 1828. Copy, Lapham MSS., State Historical
Society of Wisconsin and Ohio Historical Society.

⁸⁷John Lee Comstock, M.D. [1789-1858], Elements of Mineralogy, Adapted to the
Use of Seminaries and Private Students, S. G. Goodrich, Boston, 1827.

⁸⁸George Rogers Clark built this mill in 1784 but had little opportunity or inclination
to operate it. Later it was known as the Bullitt mill.

⁸⁹Several of the Jared Brooks' [d. 1816] maps of 1806 locate General Clark's residence
in Clarksville. Lapham's statement is an indication that Clark's house was no longer
standing in 1828.

⁹⁰McMurtrie described a fragment of a petrified beech log he found at Clark's point
in his Sketches of Louisville (1819) reprint edition, G. R. Clark Press, Louisville, 1969,
p. 81.

⁹¹Judge Bates, the chief engineer, had been asked by the Louisville and Portland Canal
Company to void the contract with Carney, Sayre and Company under charges made by
the resident engineer, John R. Henry. Bates objected to the alleged charges and re-
signed. He very weakly supported Henry for chief engineer but evidently there was too
little time or desire to find a better replacement. Henry proved to be a poor choice and
a source of embarrassment to the Canal Company. Carney, Sayre and Company vs. Louis-
ville and Portland Canal Company, Jefferson Circuit Court, "Old Circuit Court Common
Law" suit 19,707 (1830). Also the original contractors agreed to finally turn over to the
Canal Company all their equipment which they had sold to the Company on 4 March
1828. Op. cit., Jefferson Circuit Court, Chancery division suit 2688 (1830).

⁹²Lapham's June 1828 meteorological table appeared in the Louisville Public Adver-
tiser, Vol. 10, No. 1018, 9 July 1828, p. [3], col. [3].

⁹³D. Lapham to I. A. Lapham, 2 July 1828. Copy, Lapham MSS., State Historical
Society of Wisconsin and Ohio Historical Society.

⁹⁴For additional information see, the Louisville Public Advertiser, Vol. 10, No. 1018,
9 July 1828, p. [3], col. [5].

⁹⁵Lapham noted on p. 28 of his copied journal (Lapham MSS., State Historical Society
of Wisconsin) that the engineer's salary was $1,500.

⁹⁶No record can be found of Dr. Dalton, indicating he may have been passing through
Louisville when Lapham consulted him.

⁹⁷I. A. Lapham to D. Lapham, 8 July 1828. Copy, Lapham MSS., State Historical So-
ciety of Wisconsin and Ohio Historical Society.

⁹⁸I. A. Lapham to D. Lapham, 12 July 1828. Copy, Lapham MSS., State Historical
Society of Wisconsin and Ohio Historical Society. Increase wanted to move to Ohio
because of his homesickness and a desire for better wages and working conditions.

⁹⁹Western Tiller, Vol. 2, No. 46 . . . 96, 11 July, 1828. p. [2], col. [1-2]. This
was a partial reprint of Lapham's article which had appeared in April in the American
Journal of Science and Arts, Vol. 14, No. 1 (1828), pp. 65-67. His description of the
geology of the Falls was omitted.

¹⁰⁰D. Laphame to I. A. Lapham, 2 July 1828. Copy, Lapham MSS., State Historical
Society of Wisconsin and Ohio Historical Society.

¹⁰¹George Scougal was a blacksmith and supplied iron to the canal contractors.

¹⁰²John A. Tarascon [d. 1825] began to build the six-story flour mill in 1815. Located
on Shippingport's northeast river front, the $150,000 mill produced 500 barrels a day.

Samuel Prescott Hildreth [1783-1863], moved to Marietta, Ohio in 1806 upon
receiving his degree from the Massachusetts Medical Society. He published extensively
on the natural history and later the history of Ohio.

¹⁰³I. A. Lapham to D. Lapham, 27 July 1828. Copy, Lapham MSS., State Historical
Society of Wisconsin and Ohio Historical Society.

¹⁰⁴Thomas Ferguson had been indicted on 15 May 1828 for another crime. Jefferson
Circuit Court, Old Circuit Court Common Law Order Book, 23, p. 29. There is no
record of an indictment for the murder described by Lapham, indicating a successful
escape.