Published in In the following days Captain William Wells--the sub-Indian agent at Fort Wayne--assembled a group of about 30 Miami Indians with whom he traveled to Fort Dearborn to provide an escort to the evacuees.
Published in In the following days the sub-Indian agent at Fort Wayne, Captain William Wells, who was the uncle of Heald's wife Rebekah, assembled a group of about 30 Miami Indians. Wells, Corporal Walter K. Jordan, and the Miamis traveled to Fort Dearborn to provide an escort to the evacuees.