The inroads of western expansion followed the great waterways – from Pennsylvania down the Ohio River to Kentucky and Indiana – across the Great Lakes to Detroit and northern Indiana and Illinois. Silversmiths like Jean Baptiste Piquette and Antoine Oneille were supplying silver items to the Indian trade at Detroit, Ft. Wayne and Vincennes. Charles Piquette, son of Jean Baptiste Piquette was born 1813 and became a silversmith like his father