legal and equitable claims within the Tract called Vandalia; and we are told that the Vandalia Company by a Written Agreement with Messrs. Wharton & Trent, recognized the Indiana Com- pany's Claim as just. I am Possessed of a copy of this Recognition- (See �minutes of the Indiana mentioned below at

found it immensely profitable to exchange beads and other inexpen- sive articles for the valuable hides for which this section was then especially noted. William Claybone, an English- man of a prominent family, who was granted a charter to trade with the Indians, and located on the Isle of Kent, at the