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Henry, John, a British agent employed to excite disunion in New England, 259.
Hesse, a Canadian district including Michigan, 159, 161.
Higgins, Sylvester W., topographer, 488, 519.
Historical Society, 422.
Hocquart, Intendant, 88.
Hog Island, (see Belle Isle).
Holmes, Major, killed at Mackinaw, 373.
Homesteads, 543.
Horner, John S .: his experience as Secretary of the Territory, 465-469. Horses : at Detroit in Cadillac's time, 61; subsequently, 86; numbers in Canada, 87; none at Oswego, ib .; wild, at Detroit, 389 ; used as pack- animals, 390.
Houghton, Doctor Douglass, at De- troit, 423 ; State Geologist, 487 ; plans northern surveys, 527-8; death, 423, 529.
Houses : in Detroit, in early days, 62, 63; cost of Bellestre's, 63; number in 1760, 112; in 1796, 213; style of, 213, 215.
Howard, Jacob M., Senator, 440, 467 570.
Hubbard, Bela, assistant geologist, 488; his haunted mill, 217.
Hudson's Bay Company incorporated, 28.
Hull, William, Governor of Michigan Territory, Chaps. X. and XI .; ap- pointed Governor, 237; reaches De- troit, 239; creates court districts, 241 ; organizes militia, 242 ; discords in board, 241, 244; makes treaties, 247; builds stockade, 248; enrolls negro militia, 249; troubles with Woodward, 251 ; goes to Washing- ton, 261 ; views on war, 267, 271-2 ; Revolutionary record, 269; other antecedents, 270 ; appointed to com- mand, 273 ; over-nicety, 274 ; reaches the Maumee, 275; sends vessels to Detroit-one captured at Malden, 276; reaches Springwells, 277; crosses into Canada, 278; effect of his proclamation, 279; delays, 280-
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282, 289 ; orders attack on Malden, 290 ; retreats from Canada, ib .; me- clitates surrender, 292; orders evac- uation of Fort Dearborn at Chicago, 293 ; refuses to attack batteries, 297 ; sends out Cass and McArthur to the Raisin, ib .; refuses summons to cap- itulate, 298; makes no resistance to Brock, 300 ; surrenders without fight- ing, 302 ; discharged on parole, 304, 315 ; court martial, 306 ; his defence, 310; subsequent memoirs on the subject, 314; reasons for dissolving first court, 316; remarks on his de- fence, 318-328.
Hunt, John, Judge, 411.
Hunt, Major Henry J., 350, 351.
Huntington, Samuel, declines judge- ship, 237.
Hurons, Ouendâts or Wyandots, 9; at
Mackinaw, 49; remove to Detroit, 63; industrious and intelligent, 49 ; raise corn for sale, 49, 86; mission at Bois-blanc Island, 99; intrigues against Detroit, zb .; mission removed to Sandwich, 103; villages at Brownstown and Monguagon, 287, 289, 340, 397; mostly friendly to United States, 260; some join the British, 280, 287; join Harrison, 362; make treaty, 377; change re- serves, 397.
Huron, Lake, called Ottawawa, 57.
IDOL, destroyed at Detroit, 23. Illinois Indians, help Dubuisson, 82. Illinois, State, organized, 383; en- croaches on Wisconsin, ib.
Imports, in Territory, 407-410.
Indiana : Territory organized, 222; made to include all Michigan, 223 ; State includes part of Michigan, 383. Indian names of counties, 519.
Indians : settle at Detroit, 63; Cadillac desires to civilize them, 64, 70 ; con- dition in 1718, 85; occasionally troublesome, 67, 81, 101 ; stirred up by Pontiac, 117; dislike English, 118; not restrained by white leaders, 122; persuaded against Americans, 191, 192, 195, 257; injured by white associations, 211; deceived by in- terpreters, 131 ; make grants of land, 120, 140, 170, 193, 196; rise under Prophet and Tecumseh, 257; course in War of 1812, 279, 280, 283, 293,
333, 341, 345, 358, 362, 372, 376; make peace, 373, 376; action of Michigan Legislature on their be- half, 517. 543, 545.
Intendant's deputy at Detroit, 96.
Internal improvement system under- taken, 483; ruinous results, 513; abandoned, ib., 520.
Interpreters, cause trouble by their mistakes, 131 n.
Irish manuscript, 410.
Iroquois : did not occupy Michigan, II, 57 ; object to French control of the Strait, as the way to the beaver country, 42, 56; convey their lands to King of England, 56; campaigns, 27, 46.
Islands : in boundary waters, long un- settled as to nationality, 2; in Lake Superior, named after Pontchartrain and his family, 95 ; lost islands, 96; in Detroit River, 58, 59, 124.
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JAILOR, compelled to pay tavern li- cense, 263.
Jay's Treaty, 196, 246. Jessup, brigade major at Detroit, 299.
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Jesuits : opposed to settlements, 18; their zeal, ib .; rivalry with other or- ders, 29; troubles at Detroit, 63. Jogues, Father, II.
Johnson, Sir William, Indian Superin- tendent, Chap. VII. passim.
Johnson, Colonel Richard M., com- mands mounted rangers, 363; ar- rives at Detroit, 371; breaks British lines at the Thames, ib .; kills Te- cumseh, 372 ; Vice President, 478. Johnston, John, trader at Sault Ste. Marie, aids in capture of Mackinaw, 284, 402.
Joliet, 30.
Joncaire, Chevalier François Chabert de, 114, 147, 181 ; represents Wayne County in Assembly of Northwest Territory, 219.
Jones, George W., delegate to Con- gress, 398, 469.
Jones, Richard, aids prisoners, 350. Jonois, Father, missionary at L'Arbre Croche, carries news of fall of Mack- inaw to Gladwin, 121.
Jonquière, de la, Governor, 104. Judges : none commissioned until 1788, 158, 161; Dejean and LeGrand ap- pointed by commanders, 141, 162; under Northwest Territory, 206; in Michigan Territory, 237, 410, 411, 435 ; in State, 463, 469, 480, 569. Judiciary system: originally for life, 207; changed in Michigan in 1823, 410 ; under State Constitutions, 463, 469, 480, 521, 522, 523.
Jung, and Jungman, Moravian mission- aries, 184.
Jurisprudence, French system of, pre- served by Quebec Act, 153; abolish- ed in Upper Canada, 193; in Mich- igan, 262.
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KANDEKIO, a name of Lake St. Clair, 38.
Karontaen, name of Detroit, 37.
Kaskaskia, captured, 174; people friendly to Americans, ib.
Kent, Professor, 555. Kentucky, invaded by Bird, 181 ; vol- unteers from, 335, 363.
Kidnapping, deserters from Detroit, statute against, 417. King's Mountain, Shelby in Battle of, 363.
King's proclamation after conquest of Canada, 132.
Kinzie, John, of Chicago, at massacre, 293 ; ill-treated by Proctor, 354 Kishkaukon, Saginaw chief, trouble- some, 376; charged with murder, and poisons himself, 416; County, 519.
Knaggs, Captain James, recognizes Tecumseh, 372. Kundig, Rev. Martin, appropriation to, 494.
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LABADIE, Miss, helps prisoners, 350. 1 La Butte, interpreter during Pontiac war, 127, 131.
La Croix, Hubert, captain in Legion, 321.
La Forêt, Major de, (La Salle's lieu- tenant), 40, 81 ; at capture of Rose- boom and McGregory, 44; succeeds Cadillac, 80 ; gives his views about Detroit, 84.
La Hontan, Baron de, 4, 6; commands Fort St. Joseph, 46; destroys and evacuates it, 49.
Lakes, necessary ways, 58. La Marque, Detroit monopolist, 86. La Mothe, Captain, captured at Vin- cennes, 177. La Motte Cadillac, (see Cadillac). Land Office, 513, 533.
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Lands : at Detroit, of good quality, 86; granted by Cadillac, 71; by Governor and Intendant, 90, 91 ; titles confirmed, 231, 243; invalid grants, 139, 170, 178, 231 ; bounty lands not located, and why, 379-380; first sales by United States in 1818, 395; school and University grants, 220, 230, 481 ; other grants, 482, 513; fraudulent surveys, 519; sur- vey system, 527.
Langlade, French trader at Mackinaw : Henry concealed in his house after massacre, 121; sent out by DePeys- ter with Indians, 174.
Lansing, capital removed to, 533
Larned, Charles, Attorney General, 440 ; died of cholera, ib.
La Salle, Robert Cavelier, Sieur de, 4, 21 ; sent out to explore, 23; en- nobled, 31 ; prepares for further ad- ventures, 33; builds the Griffin, ib .; starts for the Mississippi, 35; reaches the Detroit, 37; reaches Mackinaw, 38; builds fort on the St. Joseph, 39.
Lasselle, Miss, aids prisoners, 350.
Law school of University. 555.
Legion, Michigan, 321.
Legislative Board of Governor and Judges, 207, 237.
Legislative Council : created, I ; met in 1824, 412; changed, 1, 413, 416. Le Grand, Philip, acts judicially under military appointment, 141.
Lernoult, Captain (and Major) R. B., 168; attends examination of prison- ers before Dejean, ib .; builds fort at Detroit named after him, 178.
Lewis, Colonel William, in battles of the Raisin, 338-344.
Licenses to sell liquor forbidden, 553. Lieutenant Governors: under British, Hamilton, Hay and Sinclair, 158, 164, 178; of Upper Canada, Simcoe, 193.
Liquor selling : at Mackinaw, 64; re- strained by Cadillac, 65 ; by regula- tions of Detroit merchants, 65, 164 ; legislation before surrender of De- troit, 261 ; by State laws, 553.
Livingston, Lieutenant Governor, of New York, approves of bushrangers, 16, 52; his schemes against Detroit, 52.
Livre, tournois and parisis, 63.
Loan, Five Million, 494, 496-502; loans restricted, 514, 542.
Local government : unknown to French colonists, 77, 171 ; not provided for under Hull's administration, 262 ; views of General Cass on, 392, 413. Lods et ventes, reserved in grants, 91 ; their amount, 98.
Longueuil, Chevalier de, Commander at Detroit, 93, 100; decorated with Cross of St. Louis, 100.
Lottery, authorized for public purposes, 241.
Louisiana : did not include Michigan, 8; Cadillac made Governor of, 76. Louis XIV., ambitious of territory, 20. Lucas, LaSalle's pilot, 35.
Lucas, Robert, Governor of Ohio, in- volved in boundary disputes, 445, 447.
Lusigny, leader of bushrangers, 40. Lyon, Lucius, delegate to Congress, 399 ; Senator, 469.
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MCARTHUR, Colonel (and General) Duncan : commands regiment in Hull's army, 273; advises him of impending war, 276; makes foray
up the Thames, 279; detached with Cass before surrender, 297; in com- mand at Detroit, 370; raid through Canada, 373.
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McClelland, Robert, Governor, 545. McCracken, Captain Virgin, murdered at Frenchtown, 346. McDonell, John, 350.
McDougall, Lieutenant George, goes with Major Campbell to Pontiac's camp, 128; escapes, ib .; obtains grant of Hog Island, 170.
McGregor, Gregor, appointed first sheriff by Lord Dorchester, 161.
McGregory, Major Patrick, sent on ex- pedition to Mackinaw, 43 ; captured by Tonty and his associates, 45.
McKee, Colonel, British Indian agent : his stores destroyed by Wayne, 195 ; at Malden, 257; protects inhabitants of Detroit, 333.
McKeehan, Doctor, sent to attend prisoners, and captured, 346 ; cruelly treated, ib.
McKenney, Colonel, accompanies Cass to Lake Superior, 414.
Mckinney, John, defaulting State Treasurer, 565.
Mckinstry, Colonel David C., opposes Secretary Mason's appointment, 430. Macaulay, Zachary, signs protest against Quebec Act, 158.
Mack, Stephen, an officer of the Le- gion, 321 ; helps prisoners, 350.
Mackinaw : an early post and mission, 12, 13, 19; position of fort, 12, 48, 112; captured by Indians, 121; dif- ficulties with Major Rogers, 145; fort removed to Island of Michili- mackinac, 188; captured by British, 285; some of its people disloyal, 286 ; failure of attempt to recapture, 373 ; restored to United States, 377; extensive business, 407, 410 ; trouble with Mormons on Beaver Island, 549. Mackintosh; Angus, of Detroit, inherits
Moy estates, 136 n .; hospitality, 212. Macomb, Alexander, merchant: on committee to regulate liquor sales, 164; obtains grant of Grosse Ile, 170.
Macomb, Alexander, General, receives sword of honor, 384.
Macomb, William, helps prisoners, 350.
Macomb County, 388.
Madison, Major, at Battles of French- town, 338-345.
Madison, President, 324.
Malden (or Amherstburgh) : built on American occupation of Michigan, 228; why not placed on Bois-blanc Island, 229; centre of Indian trans- actions, 257; Hull fails to take it, 279, 292, 308, 310; forces from, at Frenchtown, 337, 340; prisoners taken there, 345; Barclay gathers his fleet, 366; Proctor evacuates and partially destroys, 369; Harrison occupies, ib .; restored to British, 378; vexatious conduct of officers there, ib. Manitous, '24.
Manning, Randolph, Chancellor and Judge, 480, 569.
Mansfield, Captain, at Detroit, 304.
Mansfield, Lord: inconsistency, 132, 156
Manufactures : opposed by English, 106; encouraged by French, ib .; ex- tension of settlements opposed, as dangerous to British industry, 138, 151.
Marietta colonists at Detroit, 217.
Marion, Fontaine, shot for acting as British guide, 46.
Marquette, Father, 13.
Marriages : performed by military commanders, 179; sanctioned by Canadian legislation, 204.
Married women, secured in their pro- perty, 520.
Marston, Isaac, Judge of Supreme Court, 569.
Martin, George, Chief Justice, 569.
Martial law : kept up after conquest, under King's proclamation, 132; under Quebec Act, 158. Mascoutins, besiege Detroit, 81.
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Mason, General John T., Secretary of Michigan Territory, 428.
Mason, Stevens Thomson, Secretary of Michigan Territory, before his com- ing of age, 429'; objections to his appointment, ib .; maintains bound- ary rights of Territory, 446, 448; superseded by Charles Shaler and John S. Horner, 465; elected Gov- ernor of the State, ib .; negotiates loan, and is cheated, 497-501.
Massacre, planned against Detroit, IOI, 123; at Mackinaw, 121 ; at Chicago, 295 ; at Frenchtown, 345.
Maumee Rapids: British build fort there after the Revolution, 195 ; Wayne defeats Indians there, ib .; Hull sends vessels to Detroit from, 276; Harrison builds Fort Meigs, 357.
Maurepas, Count, friendly to Canada, 94.
May, James, Judge, 205; aids prison- ers, 350.
Mechanics, in colony, 34, 62.
Medaminabo, 391.
Medical school at University, 532, 557.
Meigs, Fort, besieged ineffectually, 357, 359.
Meigs, Return J., Governor of Ohio, 286, 357.
Membré, Father Zenobe, accompanies LaSalle, 34.
Menominie Indians: at Detroit, 82 ; aid Gorrell, 119, 122; aid British against Americans at Mackinaw, 373.
Mesnard, Father Réné, missionary on Lake Superior, 11 ; dies at the por- tage of Keweenaw Point, 12.
Mexican War, 521.
Miami Indians, 294, 295, 363. Michabou, 95, 547.
Michigan : French dependency, 3, 8; kept back from settlement, 8, 9; early posts and missions, 10; sur- rendered to British, 109; retained
by Great Britain in violation of treaty, 189; attempt to secure its possession, 198; delivered up to Americans, 197 ; included in Wayne County of Northwest Territory, 205 ; represented in Assembly, Chap. IX. passim; attached to Indiana, 224; Territory organized, 231; its first administration under Hull, Chap. X .; no new settlements, 234; no lands in market, 221, 247 ; surrendered to British, 302 ; under British military rule, Chap. XII .; promised to the Prophet, 358-9; re-occupied by Americans, 370; refuses to have an assembly, 391 ; extended to the Mis- sissippi, 383; to the Missouri, 440 ; prepares for and forms Constitution, 435, 442-4, 462 ; elects State officers and representative, 463; first Leg- islature, 469; Senators elected, ib .; admission subjected to conditions, 472; rejected by convention, 475 ; irregular acceptance, 477; admitted into the Union, ib .; adopts new Con- stitution, 539.
Michilimackinac, (see Mackinaw), coun- ty organized, 388.
Military interference with canal at Sault Ste. Marie, 502-3.
Militia, organized, 205, 242; in War of 1812, 321.
Miller, Lieutenant Colonel James : in Hull's army, 273; at Battle of Mon- guagon, 289, 296; brevetted, 329; exchanged for Dacres, 305.
Miller, Oliver W., befriends prisoners, 350.
Miller & Jermain, first ship flour to the east, 417.
Mills, David, M. P., makes report on Canadian boundary, 29.
Mills : at Detroit, 74, 216; moulin banal, 73, 90; water mill authorized by Boishébert, 90; wind mills, 216. Mines, on Lake Superior, 147, 148.
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Minong Island, disappearance from | maps, 95.
Missions : early, 10, II; Huron, at Bois-blanc, 99; removed to Sand- wich, 103.
Money : current, 262; paper, shin- plasters and dicker, 384, 490-2, 497 ; scrip, 501.
Monguagon, Battle of, 289, 296. Monroe County, organized, 383.
Monroe, James, President, visits De- troit, 383.
Montreal Point, opposite Detroit, 104. Moore, Thomas, major in Ohio volun- teers, 274.
Moravians: Zeisberger and others brought prisoners to Detroit, 183; settle at New Gnadenhutten, 184; abandon it, 187.
Morell, George, Territorial and State Judge, 435, 480.
Mormons, establish kingdom on Bea- ver Islands, 549; its fate, 551.
Morrison, Robert, major in Ohio vol- unteers, 274.
Muir, Major, British Commander at Detroit, 349, 353-
Mundy, Edward, first Lieutenant Gov- ernor, 465.
Munson, J. R., major of Ohio volun- teers, 274.
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NAVARRE, Robert, deputy of the In- tendant, 96, 97, 99.
Negroes : retained as slaves, 204, 246 ; not restored when fugitives from Canada, 246; enrolled as militia, 249; peculiar laws concerning, 417. New France, included Michigan, 8.
Newspapers : none in Canada, 152; Michigan Essay, 255; Detroit Ga- zette, 384 ; Michigan Herald, 412. New York : ceded to England, 29; controversy with, for western trade, 42.
Nicholas, a Huron chief, plots against Detroit, 102.
Noblesse, French citizens belonging to, 212.
Nolan, Detroit monopolist, 88.
Normal School, 532, 543.
Northwest Company: opposed to set- tlements, 257 ; quarters at the Sault, 402.
Northwest Territory, Chap. IX.
Norvell, John, one of the first Sena- tors, 469.
Notary, an important officer, 78, 97. Noyan, Monsieur de, Commander at Detroit, 93.
OCHSWEGO or Oswego, a name of Lake Erie, 57.
Officers : English, disliked by Indians, 175; Scottish, more acceptable, 136; British, at Malden, exceed their au- thority, 378, 379.
Ohio: organized as a State, 222; fur- nishes volunteers for Hull's army, 273 ; operations after Hull's surren- der, Chap. XII .; boundary dispute with, 444-463.
Okemos, a nephew of Pontiac, 119; roughly handled by American ran- gers, 364; submits to the United States, 365.
Ordinance of 1787, 206.
Ordinances of Detroit peculiar, 224, 227.
Oregon resolutions, 520. Orotoni, a Huron chief, 102. Osages, aid Dubuisson, 81. Otsiketa, a name of Lake St. Clair, 38.
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Ottawas: at Mackinaw, 49; at De- troit, 49, 82; raise good crops, 85; hostile, 363. Ottawawa, (Lake Huron), 57. Ouendâts, (see Hurons).
Outagamies, attack Detroit, 81 ; de- feated, 84.
Owen, John, State Treasurer, saves the State credit, 565.
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PACKHORSES, used for transportation, 390.
Pajot, Commander at Detroit, 93.
Panis or Pawnees, slaves, 113; at De- troit, ib. note ; woman conceals Henry at Mackinaw during massacre, 121. Paris, Treaty of, 113. Parkman, Francis, 4, 120.
Passing bell, discontinued in cholera year, 438.
Patriot War, 511.
Pattinson, Richard, obtains Indian grants, 196; partner in scheme for acquiring Michigan, 199.
Péan, Hugues, hereditary Town-Major of Quebec, Commander at Detroit, 91 ; rapacity and punishment, 92. Pelée, Pointe: Dollier and Galinée wrecked there, 23.
Perry, Commodore Oliver Hazard, prepares fleet at Erie, 365; defeats British fleet on Lake Erie, 367; acts as aid to Harrison in Battle of the Thames, 372.
Phelyppeaux family, 94.
Pierce, John D., Superintendent of Public Instruction, 481, 513.
Pioneers, usually honest, 15.
Political difficulties introduced, 419- 432.
Pollard, Reverend Richard, befriends prisoners, 349.
Ponies, numerous in the woods, hardy and useful, 389.
Pontchartrain, Count, at Quebec, 67; friendly to Cadillac, 70; places named for him, 95.
Pontchartrain, Fort, built by Cadillac at Detroit, 54, 59; enlarged, 107.
Pontiac, Chief of the Ottawas : meets Rogers at Cuyahoga River, 115; his plots and massacres, Chap. VII. passim; his sagacity, 257; makes grants of land, 120, 140.
Population : of Detroit, in 1760, 112; in 1796, 213; of Territory, 234.
Portage of Keweenaw Point : Mesnard lost there, 12.
Portage of Sault Ste. Marie : expense of transportation, 506, 529.
Porter, Captain, takes possession of Detroit, 197.
Porter, Augustus S., Senator, 514.
Porter, George B., Territorial Gover- nor, 429; dies of cholera, 446.
Porter, l'eter B., General, 324.
Posts, western, retained by Great Bri- tain wrongfully, 189.
Potawatamies : aid Dubuisson, 82; raise large crops, 85; cede their vil- lages to Chêne and Navarre, 150, 151 ; attack fort on St. Joseph, 120; hostile to United States, 363.
Potier, Father, missionary among the Hurons, 99, 103
Powell, William Dummer, first Judge in Western District, 161.
Pownall, Governor, on French settle- ments, 17, 108.
Praline, 391.
Printing press: none in Canada, 6; first introduced in Michigan, 255.
Prisoners : massacred at Frenchtown, 345; ransomed at Detroit, 349 ; run the gauntlet at Fort Meigs, 358.
Proctor, Henry, Colonel and General : assumes command at Malden, 287 ; at Detroit, 331 ; organizes govern-
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ment, 332 ; commands at battles of Frenchtown, 342-345; cruelty, 346; forbids ransom of prisoners from In- dians, 351; remonstrated with by Woodward, 352; banishes citizens, 354, 355; moves into Ohio, 357; repulsed at Fort Meigs, ib .; cruelty
to prisoners, 358; rebuked by Te- cumseh, ib .; assaults Fort Stephen- son, 360; defeated and retreats, 362 ; evacuates Malden, 369; insulted by Tecumseh, 1b .; overtaken and de- feated by Harrison, 371.
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QUEBEC ACT: passed, 152, 153; op- posed, 157; not enforced in Western
Canada or Michigan, 158; repealed as to Upper Canada, 193.
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RAILROADS: first chartered, 418; owned by State, 483, 495; sold, 496, 520.
Raisin, River, battles and massacre, 338-345.
Randall, Robert, attempts to bribe members of Congress to dispose of Michigan to Detroit company, 199. Ransom of prisoners : from Indians, after Frenchtown massacre, 349 ; forbidden by Proctor, 351.
Ransom, Epaphroditus, Judge, 480; Governor, 537.
Raquette, used in ball-play, 121.
Raymbault, missionary, II.
Réaume, an early Detroit settler, 88; a Green Bay magistrate of eccentric jurisdiction, 160.
Rebellion, services of Michigan in, 566.
Récollêts, early missionaries, 10.
Records, removed from Detroit to Quebec, 190.
Recreations of old citizens, 212, 218, 224, 422.
Reed, Ebenezer, 384.
Reform School, 559.
Reid, Duncan, 350.
Removals from office multiplied, 419. Repentigny, Chevalier (and Marquis) de, obtains seigneurie, and builds fort at Sault Ste. Marie, 71, 92, 107; lost to his family by escheat, 93.
Reserves, government : remarks upon abuses in extending exclusive juris- diction over them, 507.
Revision of statutes : in 1820, 405; in 1827, 417; in 1838, 509; in 1846, 523; forbidden by Constitution, 510, 542.
Revolution, American: did not affect sentiment in Michigan, 165, 171.
Revolution, French, of 1830 : celebrat- ed, 418.
Reynolds, Doctor, killed at Detroit, 300.
Ribourde. Father Gabriel de la, chief missionary with LaSalle, 34.
Richard, Father Gabriel : arrives at Detroit, 204; introduces printing press, 255 ; delegate to Congress, 398; dies, 440.
Richardie, Father de la, Huron mis- sionary, 101, 103.
Riflemen, mounted : Johnson's regi- ment, 363; arrive at Detroit, 371; break the enemy's lines at the Thames, ib.
Roads: none before Moravian, 186; few in Hull's time, 262 ; government roads, 415.
Robertson, William and David, in Randall scheme, 199.
Rocheblave, M. de, Commander at Kaskaskia, 173; captured and sent to Virginia, 174.
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Rogers, Major Robert : takes posses- sion of Detroit, 109; in Pontiac war, 129; frauds at Mackinaw, and subsequent career, 145.
Rosalie, Fort, 95.
Roseboom, a New York trader : sent to Mackinaw by Governor Dongan, 44 ; captured by Durantaye, 45.
Roture, lands at Detroit held in, 91.
Roundhead, Wyandot chief, 334, 340, 342.
Rowland, Captain (and Major) Thomas: refuses to submit to Hull's surren- der, 305; a gentleman of literary tastes, 422.
Royal Americans, (60th Regiment), at Detroit, 109.
Ruland, Israel, imprisoned and ban- ished by Proctor, 347, 354.
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SABREVOIS, Commander at Detroit, 93, 94.
Sacs or Sakis : at Detroit, 82; befriend Etherington, 119; in Black Hawk war, 435-6.
Sager, Dr. Abram, on geological sur- vey, 488.
Saghinan or Saginaw, 9.
Sahiquage or Sweege, a name of Lake Erie, 57.
St. Anne's Church, Detroit, 81, 204, 255, 387, 398.
St. Clair, General Arthur, Governor of Northwest Territory, 210, 220.
St. Clair, Arthur, (son of Governor), Attorney General, 210; honored above his comrades, ib.
Ste. Claire, Lake, named by LaSalle, 38; various names, ib.
St. Esprit, mission at Chegoimegon, 12.
St. George, Colonel, at Malden, 278. St. Ignace, the old mission of Mack- inaw, 12.
St. Joseph, of Lake Michigan, Fort : built by LaSalle, 39; . removed in- land, 40; captured in Pontiac war, 120.
St. Joseph, Fort, on St. Clair River : built by DuLuth, 43; commanded by La Hontan, 46; destroyed and abandoned, 49.
St. Lusson, holds council at Sault Ste. Marie, 21.
St. Ours, Deschaillons de, at Detroit, 93. Salaries, under State Constitution, 544, 577.
Salières (Carignan) Regiment, 26. Salt manufacture, 573.
Sargent, Winthrop, Secretary and act- ing Governor of Northwest Terri- tory, at Detroit, 197; organizes civil and military affairs, and establishes Wayne County, 205.
Sastaretsi, the great Huron chief, taken to Quebec, and dies, 101.
Sault de Ste. Marie: early mission, 10, 19; St. Lusson holds council, 21; seigneurie granted to Repentigny, 71, 92, 107; visited by Henry, III ; British sympathizers, 201, 283, 286, 402; Cass makes treaty there, 404 ; ship canal interrupted by troops, 502 ; built, 546.
Sawyer, Franklin, Superintendent of Public Instruction, 440, 513. Scalps, reward for, 177.
Schiefflin, Jonathan : captured at Vin- cennes and sent to Virginia, 177; in- terested in Randall scheme, 199; re- tains British allegiance, 200; obtains large Indian grants, 196, 201 ; repre- sents Wayne County in Assembly, 223; spirited conduct at Chillicothe, ib.
Schools : early founded in Detroit, 254-6; grants for, 220, 230; system
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adopted, 416, 481 ; Normal, 532; Reform, 559.
Schoolcraft, Henry R .: on Cass's first expedition, 400; historical writer, 422.
Scott, Dr. William McDowell, 354; abused by Proctor, ib.
Scott, Miss, befriends prisoners, 350. Scottish officers and merchants, liked by Indians, 136.
Search of American vessels at Malden, 379.
Sedgwick, Theodore, exposes Randall and Whitney, 199.
Seigneuries : only two in Michigan, 71.
Senecas : expedition against, 46; friendly to United States, 260.
Servants at Detroit, praised by Judge Burnet, 113 1
Settlements : opposed by Jesuits, fur companies and British Ministry, 19, 20, 150, 170, 172; favored by Beau- harnois, Galissonnière and Vau- dreuil, 89, 105, 107; in Michigan, largely from other States, 426
Shaler, Charles, declines the office of Secretary, 465.
Shawanoes, in part join Tecumseh and the Prophet, 258-9 ; partly friendly to the United States, 260.
Shea, Dr. John G .; 30.
Shelby, Governor Isaac : patriotic ser- vices, 363; leads Kentucky volun- teers, ib .; his pony at Malden, 370; commands army after the Battle of the Thames, 372; fort named after him, 374.
Sheldon, John P .: editor of Gazette, 384; Secretary of Council, 412; tried for contempt, 417.
Shinplaster currency, 384-5.
Shipp, Lieutenant, at Fort Stephenson, 360.
Short, Lieutenant Colonel (British), killed at Fort Stephenson, 360.
Shipping, at Detroit, in 1796, 215.
Sibley, Lieutenant, killed at Detroit, 300.
Sibley, Solomon : first American set- tler in Michigan, 217; delegate to Assembly, 219; member of Council, 222 ; meeting with Lewis Cass, 218 ; Supreme Court Judge, 217, 411 ; de- legate to Congress, 398.
Sieges of Detroit, 81, 123-130.
Silver, discovered on Lake Superior, 148.
Simcoe, John Graves, Lieutenant Gov- ernor of Upper Canada, 193; suc- ceeds Rogers in command of Queen's Rangers, 194; builds fort on Mau- mee, 195; cajoles Hull, 270.
Sinclair, Patrick, Lieutenant Governor, 178; at Mackinaw, 188; removes fort to Island of Michilimackinac, ib. Slavery, not to be extended, 539.
Slaves, in Canada and Michigan, 113, 204, 246.
Smart, Robert, 350, 356.
Smith, Thomas, appointed clerk by Lord Dorchester, 161; killed at Maumee, ib.
Smythe, Richard, cavalry officer at De- troit, 321.
Snelling, Colonel Josiah, of Miller's regiment, 297, 299, 300, 319.
Social life in Detroit, 202, 211, 218, 225, 254, 420.
Solar compass, 527.
South Sea expeditions, 21.
Springwells, or Bellefontaine: Hull's camping ground, 277; Brock crosses there, 300; encampment of soldiers in Black Hawk war, 278, 440; of " Patriots," 278.
Sproat, Colonel Ebenezer, 218.
Squaws, defeat Indians at foot-ball, 210.
State House at Lansing, 575.
State Library, under lady librarian, 576. Statutes : revised in 1820, 405; 1827,
417; 1838, 509; 1846, 523 ; Com- piled, 1857, 542; 1872, 542.
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Steamboat Walk-in-the-Water, first on Lake Erie, 395.
Stephenson, Fort, defended by Major Cioghan, 360.
Stuart, Charles E , Senator, 569.
Strang, James J., King of the Mor- mons, 549.
Superior, Lake : early missions on, IO, II ; visited by Alexander Henry, 147;
by Cass, 404, 414; surveys on, 527 ; mining, 148, 529; first steamboat 011, 529.
Sweege, Lake, (Erie), 57.
Symmes, Judge John Cleves, at De- troit, 210.
Symmes, Captain John Cleves : curi- ous theory concerning the interior of the earth,-" Symmes's Hole," 396
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TABELLION : nature of his office, 97. Talon, Intendant, sends out expedi- tions, 21, 29.
Tanner, John, captive among Indians -dangerous character, 415.
Taochiarontiong, same as Atiochiaron- tiong.
Tappan, Dr. Henry P., President of the University, 554.
Tarhee (the Crane), Wyandot chief, joins Harrison, 362.
Taxes: laid by Commander at De- troit, 140; how levied in Territory, 262.
Taychatin, chief, goes to Quebec with Bellestre, and dies, IOI.
Taylor, Zachary, defeats Indians in Black Hawk war, 436.
Tecumseh, Chief of the Shawanoes : incites the Indians to war, 258; af- ter defeat at Tippecanoe goes to Malden, 260; humanity at Fort Meigs, 358; at Bois-blanc during Battle of Lake Erie, 369; insults Proctor for cowardice, ib .; killed at the Thames, 371-2.
Teganissorens, Chief of the Iroquois, 55.
Tenney, Mrs. H. A, State Librarian, 576.
Tenures of lands, in Cadillac's seig- neurie, 72; of Royal grants, 91 ; of lands in fort, 97.
Teuchsa Grondie, (see Atiochiaronti- ong).
Texas annexation favored, 520.
Thames, Battle of the, 371.
Thomas (or Tomaw), Menominie chief, 373, 401-2.
Tippecanoe, Battle of, 260.
Tobacco, exported from Detroit, 417. Toledo war, 447.
Tonty, Chevalier Henry de, LaSalle's companion, 32; in Seneca cam- paign, 44.
Tonty, the younger, Commander at Detroit, 80 ; grasping and arrogant, 87.
Tories, granted lands in Canada, 194 Townships, first organized, 413.
Tracy, Marquis de, Viceroy, 26; his Iroquois campaign, 27.
Trade : restricted, 15, 25, 32; western, coveted by English, 42 ; licenses, 25, 69; monopoly at Detroit, 87; open after conquest, 116.
Traders : at Detroit, 136, 212, 215, 228; at Sault and Green Bay, hostile to the United States, 228, 283, 286. T'rading houses, government, 229, 406. Treaty, of Paris, 113 ; Jay's, 196, 198, 204.
Trimble, Major William A., of Ohio volunteers, 274.
Trowbridge, Charles C., iv .; with ex- pedition of 1820, 401 ; collects his- tory, 422.
Trumbull, Judge John, author of Mc- Fingal, 434.
Turnbull, Captain George, vindicates Cuillerier, 125; establishes courts, 141.
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UNIVERSITY : founded, 385; reorgan- ized in 1822, 407; by Constitution of 1835, 481 ; law and medical de-
partments, 532, 555 ; by Constitution of 1850, 543, 554. Upper Peninsula, 526, 546, 554, 570.
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VAN BUREN, Martin, Judge Advocate on Hull's trial, 306.
Van Horne, Thomas B., major of Ohio regiment, 274; at Battle of Browns- town, 287, 289.
Vaudreuil, Philip de Rigaud, Marquis de, favors brandy trade, 85.
Vaudreuil, Pierre de Rigaud, Marquis de, furthers settlement of Detroit, 107.
Vincennes, Sieur de : gallant conduct, 82.
Vincennes, town and fort, captured by Clark, 176.
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WABISHKINDIBÉ, name of Henry Con- nor, 131, 187.
Walk-in-the-Water, first steamboat on Lake Erie, 395, 400.
Walk-in-the-Water, Wyandot chief, 289, 336, 340, 372-3.
Walker, Hon. Charles I., iv., 555, 561. War of 1812, Chaps. XI. and XII.
War Department, Chap. XI. passim. Washington's views on the retention of western posts, 189.
Water ways, the only roads, 58.
Wawatam, an Indian chief, saves Al- exander Henry, 12I.
Wawyachtenok (Waweatanong), old name of Detroit, 51, 56, 57.
Wayne, General Anthony : campaign, 195; visits Detroit, 197; death and preservation of his body, ib.
Wayne County : established, 205; dis- franchised on organization of Ohio, 223-4; re-organized, 382. Weld, Isaac, describes Detroit, 213. Wendât, or Wyandot, (see Huron). Wells, Captain William, killed at Chi- cago, 294-5.
Wells, Colonel, at Frenchtown, 341. Wells, Ensign, murdered at French- town, 346.
Wells, Professor, 555.
Wheat: introduced by Cadillac, 74; raised many years on same land, 86. Whipping-post, 405. Whipple, Commodore, 218. Whipple, Major John, 250.
Whipple, Judge Charles W., 250.
Whistler, Major John, at Detroit, si- lences British battery, 297.
White River, English to be kept from, 99, 100, 104.
Whiting, General Henry, 395, 422.
Whitney, Charles, plots with Randall and others to obtain title to Michi- gan, 199.
Wild-cat banks, 490.
Willcox, General O. B., 564, 566.
Wilkins, Ross, Judge : appointed, 435 ; first United States District Judge, 475.
Winchester, General, 337 ; disasters at Frenchtown, 335-346. Windmills, 216.
Wing, Austin E., delegate to Congress, 399.
Winimeg, Indian chief, carries message to Chicago, 293.
Wisconsin, annexed to Michigan, 383; made Territory, 443. Wisner, Moses, Governor, 545, 563.
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Witherell, James, Territorial Judge, 245; Major of Legion, 299; paroled, 304; Secretary of Territory, 417. Wolcott, Alexander, 401.
Women admitted to University, 557.
Woodbridge, William, Secretary of Territory, 376; Judge of Supreme Court, 417, 435; delegate to Con- gress, 398; Governor, 514, 536; Senator, 515, 536.
Woodward, Augustus B., Judge, Chaps. X., XI., XII. and XIII. passim; le- gislated out of office, 411.
Woolfolk, Captain, murdered at Frenchtown, 346.
Wright, John, botanist, 488. Wyandot, (see Huron). Wyley, Ann, executed by Dejean, 167.
ZEISBERGER, David, Moravian missionary, 182. Z
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