[Hosea Stout Diary] Sund May 7th 1848.
Meeting at the stand Subject of the picket guard up. Appointed two Captains who were to raise ten men each & go out on guard one day alternately The Guard to be men who were not busily engaged in preparing to go West. William L. Cutler and Harrison Burges were the two Captains.
To day a large company of the Ottoes came in with Capt Caw their chief with a line from miller the agent demanding their pay for our living on their land Mad out a double guard tonight.
[source: Diaries of Hosea Stout]
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