1770s

18th century 1 dated mentions

1770s

1. 1779–1820
   The traders before the bend had a post: Burnett's valley

   William Burnett, a New Jersey man of American sympathies, entered the St. Joseph valley sometime between 1779 and 1782 — the years vary across the accounts, and the scholarly study of his trade, Susan Sleeper-Smith's "St. Joseph Trade from Burnett to Taylor," carries the range…