Reference: to Alexander McCormick

 Source- Wisconsin Historical Collection, Vol. 23 Page 246. State Historical Society, Madison Wisconsin.

 Document – Letter from John Heckewelder, a Moravian Missionary, to Colonel Brodhead. – Washington Papers L.S.

 Dated – March 13 1779, Coochecking.

 Extract – “I expect in a few days a letter from Alex McCormick, if so I will communicate it to you. We have lately sent the King of France Declaration to all the French in Canada, over to Detroit, at I did not care to send the whole newspaper, I cut only this out of it and to Mr. McCormick I had wrote all the good news we had down the country”

Ed. Note – This Letter was brought to Fort McIntosh in the “pad of a Moravian Indian’s saddle. 

Ed. Note – Alexander McCormick was an Irishman who had been a trader at Fort Pitt and in the Indian country for some time before the Revolution. In 1777 he had a trading house at Half King’s Village near Upper Sandusky and was very friendly to the Moravian missionaries, on several occasions protecting them from insult and injury. In 1780 McCormick took part in the expedition to Kentucky under Captain Bird. About 1785 he married Elizabeth Turner, an Indian captive, and settled at the foot of the rapids of the Maumee River on the ground where Wayne’s battle of Fallen Timbers was later fought. After this event he removed to Western Ontario and died in 1803 at Colchester. Possessed of a humans temperament, he rescued many captives from the Indians. His place on the Maumee was a well known trading sites.

 See Wis. Hist. Soc. Proceedings 1914-214