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Customs receipts, imports, 783, 784.
Cut money, 846, 848.
Cyclone, date of, 47.
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Dakota Territory, 835. Dances, Indian, 322. Dark day, 46.
Dauphin Island, Cadillac and family arrive at, 530.
Dearborn, corner-stone of arse- nal laid at, 226.
Dearborn, arms stolen from, during Patriot war, 301.
Dearborn, arms forwarded to, during Patriot war, 302.
Death, first at Detroit, 333.
Death-rate in Detroit, 48.
Debt, imprisonment for, 177. Deeds, mortgages, and titles, 39.
Deer and bears within city lim- its, II.
Defeat of British and Indians, 266.
Defeat of Gen. Braddock, 233. Defeat of Gen. Harmer, 265. Defeat of Gov. St. Clair, 265. Delaware, 832.
Delawares massacred by Ameri- cans, 261.
Delawares, De Peyster's letter to, 261.
Delegates to Congress, Act pro- viding for, III.
Delegates to Congress, 102.
Delray, in Springwells, 4.
Democratic barbecue on Cass Farm, 108. 1
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Denver, 811, 818.
Depot, M. C. R. R., burned, 494.
Deposit Banks, 848.
Desjardins Canal, 903.
Destitution in Michigan Terri- tory after War of 1812, 287.
Detroit a British military post, 242. Detroit a commercial colony, 765.
Detroit & Cleveland Steam Navigation Co., 910.
Detroit & L. S. Copper Co., 818. Detroit Bank, 96.
Detroit barracks, 226.
Detroit, boundaries at different times, 34, 35.
Detroit Bridge and Iron Works, 805.
Detroit Bronze Co .. 811.
Detroit Brush Co., 836.
Detroit Carriage and Express Co., 889.
Detroit City Glass Works, 836. Detroit City Railroad Co., 932. Detroit Copper and Brass Roll- ing Mill, 836.
Detroit Electrical Works, 836.
Detroit Emery Wheel Co., 820. Detroit File Works, 820.
Detroit and Lake Superior Cop- per Co., 818.
Detroit Lead Pipe and Sheet Lead Works, 836.
Detroit Linseed Oil Co., 825. Detroit Locomotive Works, 806.
Detroit Safe Co., 810.
Detroit Stamping Co., 822.
Detroit Steam Forge, 805.
Detroit Stove Co., 811.
Detroit Steel and Spring Works, 804.
Detroit White Lead Works, 825. Detroit established by Cadillac, 330.
Detroit evacuated by English, 223.
Detroit, expedition against, 256, 259.
Detroit first incoporated, 133. Detroit Fish Hatchery, 16.
Detroit, Fort of, 183, 222, 234. Detroit founded, 17.
Detroit Fund, 30, 31.
Detroit Grays, 318.
Detroit, importance as a mili- tary post, 231.
Detroit included in the diocese of Cincinnati, 547.
Detroit Lancers, 317.
Detroit, location of, 3.
Detroit made a port of entry, 781. Detroit, maps of, 32.
Detroit militia, 233,
Detroit, names of, 3.
Detroit Opera House lot, sale of, 41. Detroit Public Library, 760.
Detroit reinforced by British, 264.
Detroit River, description of, 6. Detroit surrendered to the English, 234.
Detroit, surroundings of, 4.
Detroit the centre of Indian trade under the English, 766. Detroit transferred to diocese of Baltimore, 546.
Detroit Zouaves, 318.
Detroit Transit Railroad, 933.
Detroit Union Railroad Station and Depot Co., 906.
District telegraph system be- gun, 885.
Dexter, railroad to, first opened, 897.
Directories of city, 697.
Districts, City divided into Fire, 505
District School Inspectors, 736. Diamond Fanning Mill Com- pany, 836.
Dickering was the rule, 770.
Diocesan Fund, Protestant Episcopal, 592.
Diocese of Bardstown included Detroit, 546.
Diocese of Detroit, Catholic, created, 547.
Diocese of Grand Rapids, Cath- olic, created, 547.
Diocese of Marquette and Sault St. Mary, Catholic, created, 547.
Diocese of Michigan, P. E., created, 591.
Diocese of New France, Catho- lic, created, 543.
Director of the poor, 644.
Disciples, Campbellites, Chris- tians, 624.
Diseases, Doctors, Medical So- cieties, 48.
Diseases, prevalent, 48.
Dispensatory, free, 51, 653, 733. Distress after War of 1812, 287. District of Hesse, 174. District of Sargent, 149.
District Supervisors, 933.
Ditches as boundaries of farms, 18.
Doctors, 50.
Dog licenses and dog pounds, 80.
Domain of Cadillac, 17. Dominion of Canada, 828, 832.
Donation files, 28.
Donation lots, 27, 28.
Door Knob Co., Union, 822.
Douaquec, 329. Draft, first in war with South, 308.
Drays first used, 891.
Drain commissioners, 126, 130.
Drains and sewers, 59.
Dramatists and dramas, 358.
Dress, changes brought by the English, 337.
Drill Sergeant, The, a poem, 248.
Drinking fountains, 71.
Drinking song of firemen, 509. Driving Park in Hamtramck, 4. Druggists' tin-ware, manufac- ture of, 822.
Drum beating and publishing, 669.
Drummers or traveling agents, 777.
Dry Dock Engine Works, 836. Dry docks, 4, 910, 911.
Ducks and duck hunting, 11, 13. Due - bills issued by private firms, 847.
Due-bills, issue of, prohibited, 153, 154.
Due-bills, laborers paid in, 151. Due-bills, loan to redeem, 152. Due-bills of county, 123.
Dug-outs, 907.
Du Luth, Fort, 221.
Duquesne, Fort, 12, 233.
Dwights, bank of, 859.
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Eagle Iron Works, 808. Early visitors, 324. Earthquakes, 46, 976. Eclipse of 1806, observations at Detroit, 315, 954.
Education, advice to French - men concerning, 715, 716.
Education, board of, take pos- session of old capitol, 745.
Education of early settlers, 333. Education, meeting to discuss frec schools, 740.
Education, society for female, 716.
Education, see Board of,
Elba Island, 7.
Elections, 110.
Election days, saloons to be closed on, 844.
Election districts, 115, 116.
Election preliminaries, 108.
Elections, city, 114.
Elections held for two days, III, 112, 113.
Elections, how conducted, 116, 117.
Elections, local, almost unani- mous, 114.
Elections, times of opening and closing polls, 114.
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Elections, remarkable incidents connected with, 114.
Elections under Michigan Ter- ritory, III.
Electrical Works, Detroit, 836. Electric Lights, 362, 468, 469. Elevators in stores and offices, 459.
Elevator machinery, manufac- ture of, 806, 820.
Ellsworth Zouaves, 318.
Elmwood cemetery, 56, 521.
El Paso, 832.
Emancipation celebration, 348. Emery Wheel Co., Detroit, 820. Emery grinders, manufacture of, 820.
Emigration, rush of, 770.
Emigration to St. Louis, 334. Enactments pertaining to De- troit, 983.
Engine, building for, author- ized, 504.
Engine Works, Dry Dock, 836. Engine house, first, 502.
Engine houses, where located, 514.
Engines, hose, etc., exempted from execution, 507.
Engines, manufacture of, 806, 807, 808.
England, 817, 818, 826, 828.
England and France, peace be- tween, 237.
England obtains Canada, 234. England, treaty with, 262.
English captured on the way to Mackinaw, 325.
English capture Quebec, 83. English Cemetery, 55.
English designs against Detroit and Niagara, 233.
English evacuate Detroit, 223. English Governors, 84.
English instigate Indian attacks on Detroit, 231.
English laws repealed, 95, 96. English plans for inciting sav- ages, 248.
English rule, 133.
English take Niagara, 233.
Envelopes first used, 881.
Epidemic in war of 1812, 48.
Episcopalian bishops, dioceses and conventions, 591. Epitaph of Hamtramck, 54.
Epizootic disables street car horses, 933.
Equinoctial storms, 45.
Erie Canal completed, 889.
Erie, Lake, 3.
Estimates, Board of, created, 161.
Estimates of city expenses, how obtained, 157.
Eureka, Cal., 808.
Eureka Iron & Steel Works, 818.
Europe, 814, 816, 820, 826.
Europe, vessels sail for, 910.
Evacuation of Detroit by Brit- ish, 267, 283.
Evangelical Alliance of the U. S., meeting of, 642.
Excommunication by Father Richard, 531.
Exempted from execution, fire engines, hose, etc., 507.
Exempted, Kinds of property, from taxation, 158. Exemption of firemen from military and jury duty, 504. Expedition against Detroit, 256. Expedition against Vincennes, 250.
Expedition to Mackinaw fails, 285.
Expedition to the upper lakes in 1820, 907.
Expenses of the city by de- cades, 155.
Exporting flour, 15.
Exports of fish and cider, 13. Exports, see shipments. Ex post facto law, 180.
Execution, fire engines, hose, etc., exempt from, 507.
Express companies, 892.
Express Co., package and bag- gage, 891.
Express from Niagara, 879. Eye meter, patent dioptric, 836.
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Factories, see Manufacturing Firms.
Fair held by Ladies' Free School Society, 736.
Fair in aid of Female Associa- tion, 650.
Families, large, 333.
Families, number of, in Detroit, 337.
Famine and small pox at De- troit, 334.
Famine threatens the colony, 12, 13.
Fanning Mill Co., Diamond, 836.
Farmer's map of Detroit, 33. Farmer's map of Michigan and Wisconsin, 697.
Farming, old time methods of, 338.
Farmington, proposal to obtain water from, 64.
Farms, French, why narrow, 21. Farms, French, how bounded, 18.
Fast day, observance of, 301, 305.
Fashion, devotees of, 337.
Female education, society in- corporated for, 716.
Female Seminary, 716, 717.
Fences used for firewood, 284.
Fentonville, railroad to, first opened, 895.
Ferries, number of, tonnage, 917.
Ferries, regulations for, 915.
Ferry boats, railroad, 89 ), 924. Ferry, horse boat, 916.
Ferry licenses and fares, 915, 917.
Ferry, Riding on the - poem, 916.
Fiat money, 847.
Fighting Island, intrenchments on, 7.
File Works, Detroit, 820.
Financial methods and accounts of city, 158.
Fires, list of noted, 489. Fire-alarm boxes, 517.
Fire-alarms, reward for, 505.
Fire-alarm telegraph, 513, 516. Fire bags to put goods in, 501. Fire buckets and ladders, 501. Fire commission created, 513.
Fire commission, chief engi- neers of, 519.
Fire commissioners' first meet- ing, 518.
Fire commissioners, names of, 518.
Fire commission, secretaries of, 519.
Fire companies for steam en- gines, 519.
Fire companies' mottoes, 508.
Fire companies, speaking trum- pets given to, 508.
Fire companies, unworthy members of, 511.
Fire company named Ham- tramck Spouters, 511. Fire Company No. I disbanded, 507.
Fire Company No. 2 organized, 504.
Fire Company, officers of a, 506. Fire Department Society, 520. Fire Department, chief engi- neers of, 513.
Fire Department, condition of, in 1851, 509.
Fire Department Society, con- stitution adopted, 520.
Fire Department managed on military principles, 513.
Fire Department, paid, organ- ized, 512.
Fire Department, property of, 513.
Fire Department, steam, 513. Fire Department, volunteer, supplanted, 512.
Fire Department, yearly ex- penses of, 513.
Fire districts, city divided into, 505.
Fire engine repaired in 1798, 501.
Fire engines carrying the broom, 507.
Fire engines, chemical, 516.
Fire engines, hand and steam, compared, 511.
Fire engines, hose cut, 507.
Fire engines, names of steam- ers, 516.
Fire engine to be procured by lottery, 502.
Fire escapes, manufacture of, 809, 811.
Fire extinguishers, earliest, 501. Fire, getting the first stream on, 510.
Fire hooks, 502.
Fire hydrants and cisterns, number of, 517
Fire, ill paved streets hinder engines, 510.
Fire limits, 500.
Fires, losses year by year, 499.
Firemen, provision for dis .. abled and indigent, 520.
Firemen, endurance of, 506.
Firemen exempted from mili- tary and jury duty, 504.
Firemen, leave of absence for, 519.
Firemen, number employed, 519. Firemen offended, 510.
Firemen open a reading-room, 506.
Firemen's parades, 507.
Firemen, political power of, 507. Firemen, qualifications for, 519.
Firemen, refreshments nished to, 508.
Firemen, salaries of, 519.
Firemen, uniform of, 519.
Firemen, visiting, 507.
Firemen, volunteers sometimes unreliable, 510.
Firemen's drinking song, 509
Firemen's Fund Association in- corporated, 519.
Firemen's Hall, 478, 506, 520, 521.
Firemen's lot in Elmwood, 521. Firemen's review, first, 504.
Firemen's song, " That old Ma- chine and Hose," 511.
Fire Marshal, 500.
Fire of 1703, 489.
Fire of 1805, 489, 490, 491, 729. Fire of 1848, 493.
Fire ordinance. 501.
Fire, the cry of, 503.
Fire Wardens, 147, 505.
First American occupation of Detroit, 268.
First Colonists, character of, 332.
First Evangelistic Society or- ganized, 556.
First Protestant Cemetery, 55. First Protestant Society be- comes Presbyterian, 581.
First Protestant Society incor- porated, 558.
First sale of city bonds, 154.
First white traveler through the Detroit, 325.
Fiscal year of the city, 158.
Fish hatcheries, 16. Fish Island, 7.
Five Million Loan, 889, 896. Flag, British, hoisted, 268.
Flag, British, hauled down, 268. Flag raising in war time, 305.
Flag-staff, stump of, found, 225. Flatheads, 233. Flour from Pontiac, 15. Flour, manufacture of, 15.
Flowers, native to Detroit, 12.
Fog signals and buoys, 919, 920. Fog trumpets, 920.
Food, cheapness of, 804.
Forestalling, 796.
Forge, the Detroit Steam, 805.
Fort Street opened to Cass Farm, 473.
Forts and Defenses, 221.
Croghan, 226.
Detroit, 183, 222, 234.
Du Luth, 221.
Duquesne, 12, 233.
Henry, 249.
Lawrance, or Laurens, 120.
Lernoult, 34, 222, 223, 224.
Mackinaw, 221, 709.
Malden, 183. Marchand, 12.
McIntosh, 256.
Meigs, 108.
Miami, 265. Mayer, 922. Nonsense, 226.
Pitt, 233.
Pontchartrain, 17, 18, 24, 221, 231, 232, 234.
Presque Isle, 12. Riviere de Bœuf, 12. St. Joseph, 221.
Shelby, 8, 36, 52, 222, 224, 225, 283. Stevenson, 282. Sumter, 853.
Wayne, 225, 228. 305.
Founding and growth of De- troit, 331.
Foundry and Wheel Co., Rus- sel, 805.
Fountains, public drinking, 71. Fowls first brought to Detroit, 338.
Fox Indians, 231, 321.
France, 811, 818. 826, 828, 829.
France and England, peace be- tween, 237.
France and Spain allied, 269. France, Cadillac returns to, 18. Frankfort (Germany), 814.
Free delivery of goods, 777.
Free delivery system of Post- office, 882.
Free dispensary, 51, 733.
Free lodging house opened, 650.
Free schools, meeting in inter- est of, 740.
Freezing process of Mr. Davis. 362.
Freights and passengers, 890. French and English rule, 83. French and Spanish intrigues, 269.
French dress described --- poem, 337.
French Farms in Wayne Coun- ty, 977, 982.
French garrison at time of sur- render of Detroit, 234.
French government, form of, in America, 83.
French maltreated by Indians on Grosse Isle, 232.
French names Anglicised, 337. French ponies, 887.
French possession, evidences of, 232.
French regime, 133.
French supremacy, 171.
French take possession of re- gion, 325.
French trust in Indians, 323.
Fuel, and where procured, 470. Fugitive Slave Act passed, 346. Fulton Iron & Engine Works, 806.
Funerals, tolling of bell at, 57. Funeral usages, 57. Funke's Hall, 479.
Fur trade, importance of, 767, 768.
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Galveston, 811. Games, Indian, 322. Gamewell fire-alarm apparatus, 516.
Gardens, unexcelled, 15. Gas companies, 468, 469. Gas inspector, 469. Gazetteers, effect on immigra- tion, 697.
Gazetteer of Michigan first is- sued, 696.
General Gage, the brig, 907. German shooting grounds in Hamtramck, 4.
Germany, 818, 828, 829. Gentlemen by occupation, 338. Gettysburg, news of battle of, 308. Ghent, treaty of, 269. Girls admitted to High School, 749.
Glass Works, Detroit City, 836. Glass Works, Leonard, 836.
Globe Tobacco Factory, 827. Gnaden-huetten, Moravian sta- tion, 551,
Gold, greenbacks, and national bank notes of equal value, 854. Gold pens first used, 364
Gold, enormous premium on, 854.
Good Templars, Grand Lodge in session, 842, 844.
Good Templars' Hall, 479. Gothic houses, early, 374. Governor and Judges, appoint- ment of, 134.
Governor and Judges arrive at Marietta, 94.
Governor and Judges assume control of commons, 25.
Governor and Judges author- ized to convey lands, 27. Governor and Judges control property after establishment of city government, 31.
Governor and Judges criticised, 28.
Governor and Judges, miscon- duct of, 96, 97.
Governor and Judges, mysteri- ous transactions of, 27.
Governor and Judges of Michi- gan hold first session, 95. Governor and Judges' Plan, 24, 26, 36.
Governor and Judges render no account of moneys, 150.
Governor and Judges, rule of, 134.
Government, a patriarchal, 171. Governors, English, 84.
Governors of Michigan, 91, 92. Governors of Michigan Terri- tory, 88.
Governors of New France, 83. Grades, Commissioners of, 936. Grain, inspection and grading of, 791.
Grand Circus, 73.
Grand Haven, railroad to, first opened, 895.
Grangers, origin of societies, 854.
Grand Rapids, diocese of, 547. Grand Rapids, railroad to, first opened, 895.
Grand Trunk Junction, 4. Grand Trunk Junction, lots sold at, 41.
Graves in jefferson Avenue, 53. Gravestones and graves, 52. Great Turkey Island, 7. Greece, 811.
Greely's surveys confirmed, 22. Greenback party, the, 854.
"Greenbacks," origin of name, 854.
Green Bay, seventh legislative council at, 99.
Greenfield, 4, 5.
Greenfield, part of, added to city, 34.
Greenville, treaty of, 121. Griffon, The, an armed vessel, 325, 907.
Grindstone quarries in Michi- gan, 802.
Grist mill on May's Creek, 9. Griswold Street, peculiarities of, 928.
Grosse Isle, Indians on, 232.
Grosse Isle, Indian shot on, 285.
Grosse Isle, occupied by Wm. Macomb, 7.
Grosse Isle, railroad ferry at, 901.
Grosse Isle, tunnel at, 891.
Grosse Pointe, a summer re- sort, 5. Grave of Dalyell, 239. Grotto of the Blessed Virgin, 543.
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Hack licenses and charges, 888. Hair buyer, title applied to Gov. Hamilton, 251.
Hair trunk safe, 154.
Half-breeds, 340.
Halifax currency, 846.
Halifax Gazette, first issued, 669.
Hallock's Corner, 457.
Hamtramck, township of, 4.
Hamtramck, part of, added to city, 34.
Hamtramck Spouters, name of Fire Co., 511.
Hanging of an Indian woman, 171.
Hannibal, Mo., 806.
Harbor and river improvement districts, 921.
Harbor, formed by Detroit River, 917.
Harbor Master, 207, 917.
Hardware Co., The Clark, 836.
Hard wood, prices of at Detroit, 802.
Harmonie Hall, 478.
Harper's Ferry raid organized, 348.
Harrow, Gale Sulky Co., 836. Havana, 4.
Hay chopped and boiled for food, 287.
Hay markets, 798.
Health officer, 59.
Hearses, first use of, 57.
Heights, The, 928.
Henry, Fort, 249.
Hesse, district of, changed to Western District, 174.
Hiawatha Tobacco Co., 827. Hickory Halls, 110.
Hillsdale, railroad opened, 902.
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Hog Island, 16, 78, 236.
Holden Road, 4.
Holly, railroad' first opened from Northville, 905.
Homoeopathic Free Dispensary, 51.
Honey, 12.
Hong Kong, China, 823. Honolulu, 827.
Hook and ladder company or- ganized, 504.
Hopkins Journals, manufacture of, 806.
Horseback ride to Washington, 887.
Horse-boat ferry, 916. Horse distemper, 892.
Horses for steam fire engines, 515.
Horses, Parent to shoe those of Cadillac, 887.
Hose company organized, 504. Hose, cutting of fire engine, 507.
Hospitals, see Charitable Insti- tutions.
Hotels, see Taverns and Hotels. House and store numbers, 467. Housebreaking and thieving, 203.
House occupied by Gen. Cass, 369.
House of Correction, 55, 216, 217, 218.
House, remains of an ancient, found, 368.
Houses and barns, number of in 1773, 368.
Houses, average number of oc- cupants, 376.
Houses, fine and numerous, 376. Houses, Gothic, first, 374.
Houses, manner of building, 373, 374.
Houses, method of construction in 1778, 368.
Houses, number in 1860, 374. Houses, number within stock- ade in 1766, 368.
Houses of ill repute demolished, 201, 202.
Hubbard Farm, 20.
Hubel's Capsule Factory, 824.
Humbug Island, why so named, 7.
Hunters' lodges, 301.
Hunting and fishing, 349.
Hurons, 3, 12, 231, 232, 322, 530. Huron territory, attempt to organize, 89.
Huron village on Bois Blanc Island, 8.
Hydrants, 517.
Hydraulic company established, 63, 64.
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Ice, 6. Idol broken by Galinee, 325.
Immersion, first baptism by, in Detroit, 605.
Immigration at various times, 37, 333, 335, 697, 909.
Importation of slaves forbidden, 345
Importations, direct, 772.
Imprisonment for debt, 177. Income tax, 159.
Indian Tribes - Algonquins, 321, 322. Cayugas, 322.
Chippewas, 78, 321, 322, 323, 324.
Delawares, 261.
Flatheads, 233.
Foxes, 231, 321.
Hurons, 3, 12, 231, 232, 322, 530.
Iroquois, 322, 324, 332.
Kickapoos, 231, 240.
Mascoutins, 531.
Menominees, 231, 321,
Miamis, 231, 322.
Mississauguas, 239.
Mohawks, 322. Olmecs, 321.
Onondagas, 232, 322. Oneidas, 322.
Ottawas, 12, 78, 231, 321, 322, 324.
Ouendats, 321, 324.
Outagamies, 231.
Potowatamies, 21, 52, 231, 235, 238, 322. Poux, 322. Sacs, 321.
Sauteux, 323.
Senecas, 234, 322.
Toltecs, 321.
Tuetle, or Tutelos, 321.
Tuscaroras, 322.
Wyandotts, 3, 7, 234, 238, 321, 322, 323, 324.
Indianapolis, railroad to, first opened from Ypsilanti, 903.
Inhabitants of Detroit, person- al appearance, 338.
Indian alarm, 284, 285.
Indian attack expected on day of eclipse, 315.
Indian and African slaves, 344. Indian agents. 324.
Indians as British allies, 247. Indian attacks, 231.
Indian burial places, 52.
Indian councils, 234, 243, 263, 552.
Indian dances, 322.
Indians defeated at Tippeca- noe, 273.
Indian forays instigated by English, 242.
Indian games, 322.
Indian grants invalid, 21.
Indian intrenchments on Fight- ing Island, 7.
Indian life described, 322.
Indian mounds, 321.
Indian outrages, 226.
Indian plot to massacre the French, 232.
Indian raid, 285.
Indian shot on Grosse Isle, 285. Indian skeletons and relics, 52. Indian summer, 45.
Indian thoughtfulness, 350.
Indian titles to lands extin- guished, 324.
Indian trade, everybody en- gaged in, 338.
Indian trails and bridle paths, 887.
Indians as beggars, 323.
Indians carry their furs to the English, 766.
Indians conciliated by British, 264.
Indians converted, 564.
Indians defeated by Wayne, 266.
Indians, disbursements to, 323. Indians, drunken, 838.
Indians, favor sought by gifts, 323.
Indians, French trust in, 323. Indians generally cheated, 767. Indians, habits and condition, 323.
Indians hung, 317.
Indians, intermarriage with, 331.
Indians kept good-natured by gifts, 766.
Indians, number of, in Michi- gan, 324.
Indians on Bois Blanc Island estranged, 8.
Indians, pestilence among, 281. Indians set fire to Fort Pont- chartrain, 231, 489.
Indians settled near French forts, 322.
Indians, supplies for, 243.
Indians to be taught, 331. Indians throng at Detroit, 260.
Indictment of Gov. Hamilton, 173.
Inhabitants renew oath of alle- giance, 240.
Ink rain, 46.
Insane Asylum of County, 649. Inspectors of liquors, 841.
Inspection of meats, 797:
Inspection of oils and liquids, 797.
Inspectors of schools to be elected on general ticket, 754. Inspector of steamboats, 921.
Inspection of weights and measures, 797.
Inspection of wood, 797.
Insurance companies, 873, 874, 875.
Insurance Co. Bank, 862.
Insurance, State commissioner of, 875.
Internal improvements project- ed, 889, 890, 896.
Internal revenue taxes, 159.
International convention of Boards of Trade, 789.
International convention of Y. M. C. A., 639.
Intrigues of France and Spain, 269.
Inventors and inventions, 362. Ionia, railroad to, first opened 895.
Iron and brass bedsteads, man- ufacture of, 811.
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Iron and Bridge Works, 805. Iron and Steel Works, Eureka, 818.
Iron Works, Buhl, 806. Iron Company, Malleable, 808. Iron fencing, manufacture of, 809, 811.
Iron Works, Fulton, 836. Iron stairs, manufacture of, 809. Iron water pipe, manufacture of, 807. Iron Works, Eagle, 808.
Iroquois, 322, 324, 332. Islands in river, 7, 8. Italy, 829.
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Jackson, railroad to, first open- ed, 897.
Jackson's specie circular, 849. Jacksonville, Florida, 835.
Jails, 214, 215, 216, 481.
Jail, scrip issued to contractors, 475.
Jails, use of, to detain slaves, 347.
Janitors of school buildings, 746.
Japan, 809, 811, 829. Jefferson Avenue extended through church ground, 531. Jesuits, 324.
Jesuits oppose selling brandy to savages, 837.
Jesuits unfriendly to Detroit, 765.
Jewish Cemetery, 57.
Jonesville, railroad to, first opened, 902.
Journal bearings, manufacture of, 806.
Journal boxes, manufacture of, 806.
Journeying, 887. Judge Advocates of Territory of Michigan, 89.
Judicial misconduct, 181.
Jurors, grand and petit, 193. Jurors of Circuit Court, 193. Jurors for U. S. District Court, 175.
Jurors in Police Court, 196. Jury, Coroners', 58.
Justice in the olden time, 171. Justices authorized to perform marriage ceremony, 340. Justices of the Peace, 197.
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Kalamazoo, railroad to, first opened, 897.
Ka-ron-ta-en, Huron name for Detroit, 3.
Kaskaskia, Ill., 24. Kent County, Upper Canada, Detroit formerly in, 94.
Kentucky, Bird's expedition against, 260.
Kentucky Gazette, issued at Lexington, 669. Kentucky, Governor of, honor- ed, 283.
Kerosene oil used in making coal gas, 364.
Kerosene oil introduced, 468. Kickapoos, 231, 240. Kidnapping of Mr. Poquette, 272.
King's clothing store, 458.
King's corner, 457. King's surveyor, 37. King's wharf, 8. Kittelberger's Hall, 479. Knagg's windmill, 10.
Knight Templar procession, 342.
Know-Nothing party, 114.
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Laboratory, Parke, Davis, & Co.'s, 823.
Laboratory, F. Stearns & Co., $23.
Laboratory, Hubel's, 823. Lacquers, manufacture of, 826. Ladies' Academy established, 720.
Lake Erie, 3.
Lake Erie, steamers on, seized by rebels, 308.
Lake Erie, storm on, 239.
Lake Ste. Claire, 5.
Lake Ste. Claire, origin of the name, 907.
Lake Superior Copper Co., 818. Lake Survey, The, 918.
Lake travel, why decreased, 910. Lamplighters, 469.
Land commissioners, 20.
Land Board, 26, 27, 29, 30, 31. Land, French, patents con- firmed, 19, 20.
Land granted for public schools, 736.
Land grants, conditions of, 17. Lands granted to Cadillac in Maine, 328.
Land Office at Detroit, 37. Land speculation of 1837, 850. Lands, amount cleared in 1708, 333.
Lands claimed by Cadillac's descendants, 328.
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