Charles Lee
Fort Dearborn militia was a group of 15 male civilian residents who were organized into a company by Captain Heald during the crisis period between the Indian murders on Leigh`s farm on Monday, April 6, 1812, and the Fort Dearborn massacre.
Thomas Burns, former member of the fort`s garrison, was made sergeant and given command.
Three of the 15, the LaFramboise brothers (Alexis, Claude, and LaFortune) were in Milwaukee, where they usually lived and traded, at the time of the massacre.
They were probably aware of the planned attack on Fort Dearborn.
The other 12 were killed in the massacre on Saturday, August 15, 1812.
According to Eckert, their names were Thomas Burns; Charles Lee, Sr.; Charles Lee, Jr.; James Cooper; William Russell; Samuel Clark; Louis Pettell; Michael Pettell; - Henry, a "seventy year old former revolutionary soldier" and two unidentified French settlers.
Unfortunately, many of the names in Eckert`s writing are erroneous, especially those of the Leigh family: Charles Lee was actually [see] James Leigh.
As a result of this information, it is not clear to which Charles Lee that the wife of M. Du Pin, a French trader, was the widow.
