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PERSONAL NARRATIVE.1
[Authorship not given. ]
Establishment of U. S. Factories with the Indians under the administration of James-Madison. —Factors forbid to trafflck with white people. —Establishment of a trading post in 1808 at Fort Madison on the Mississippi. —J. W. Johnson, factor. —An attempt to surprise and destroy the company of troops sent for the protection of factory goods. —Information of the intent of the Sacs and Foxes communicated to the sutler of the post by an Iowa Indian who once resided in Mr. Askings family at
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