Indians of Illinois after the War of 1812

The Pacification of the Indians of Illinois after the War of 1812, Lizzie M. Brown:

Queenstown And The Falls

"Queenstown is the key to the trade of the Western Lakes...".

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Circa 1812 Map (Queenstown In The Middle) (LOC)

Sir William Johnson Came To Detroit In 1761

(Partial) Carte des possessions françoises et angloises dans le Canada, et partie de la Louisiane, 1756.
Map Held At The Library Of Congress
(Fort de Detroit Is On This Part Of The Map)

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The Schooner Nancy

In the wake of the eighteentwelvers....:


 The flash of a pistol showed him in the very act of pulling the lanyard. With the leap of a mountain-cat Alexander McIntosh, the Nancy's old sailing master, sprang towards him whirling his cutlass as he came.

On Board The Sloop Charlotte

Journal of J. L., of Quebec, merchant,  By John Lees, Society of Colonial Wars in the State of Michigan:

Ship On Great Lakes (Sloop?)

See an extracted newspaper account of the supposed attack on the Sloop Charlotte.

Sudden Revolution At Detroit

Source - A Little Earlier View Of The Plan Of Detroit

From the Report of the Public Archives, by Public Archives of Canada:


June 30 Fort Pitt [1761]  Bouquet to Monkton    The sudden revolution of Indian affairs at Detroit. The measures taken to prevent surprise the inhabitants armed guards along the rivers temporary defences to the fort. Messages sent by the Detroit to the other Indians. A vessel on Lake Erie would be useful in supporting the advanced posts. Ammunition will not be sent to Detroit unless it can be delivered safely.

A Health Resort

Tawas Beach...:

Count Or Counterfeit

Count or Counterfeit in Tales, Sketches and Lyrics,  By R. J. MacGeorge; this publication was first encountered by me in the following paragraph:

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Old Mother Rodd

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Old Mother Rodd was an interesting historical character, who once lived in the Borderland region. She was an Indian woman belonging to the Chippewa tribe. She was born in the latter part of the eighteenth century, and died in Port Huron, at the age of one hundred and thirteen years. During the later years of her life her home was on the Canadian side of the St. Clair river, near the mouth of Lake Huron. [Published in 1906]

More about Mother Rodd in the Michigan Historical Collections, Volume 17:

"Mother Rodd was of full Indian lineage, but I will trace it only to her grandfather May-zhe-ke-osh or Falling-Snow.

Mother Rodd's husband was Alexander Rodd...who was part French...".

Also from the Michigan Historical Collections, Volume 17:

"...Mother Rodd at that time had her camp on the back of my father's farm, about one mile south of the Military street bridge, Port Huron, and half a mile west of where the tunnel is building."


An ode to Old Mother Rodd here (excerpt below).

Pike's Expedition In The Newly Acquired Territory

From The Expeditions of Zebulon Montgomery Pike, Volume I (of 3) To Headwaters of the Mississippi River Through Louisiana Territory, and in New Spain, During the Years 1805-6-7:

"Pike's expeditions were the first military and the second governmental explorations which were pushed to any considerable extent in our then newly acquired territory of Louisiana. The name and fame of the brilliant young soldier who impersonated the authority of the United States over all the ground between British and Spanish possessions are thus inseparably linked with those of Lewis and Clark in the beginning of our history of the Great West... ."

Jim's Photo Of A Map Entitled, "The French In The Upper Mississippi Valley"

"In July, 1805, Pike was ordered by General Wilkinson to explore and report upon the Mississippi river from St. Louis to its source, select sites for military posts, treat with the Indians, make peace if possible between the Sioux and Ojibways, and find out what he could about the British traders who still occupied posts in our newly acquired territory."

Oswego In The French-Indian Conflict

From The Plains of Abraham book:


"Oswego, the British outpost on Lake Ontario....Only the width of Lake Ontario separated it (Oswego) from the French Fort Frontenac on the other side."

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Oswego was mentioned in Luke Gridley's Diary.

The Evolution Of Belle Isle

From Legends of Le Détroit:

The missionaries, indignant at this exhibition of idolatry, broke the statue in a thousand pieces and in its place erected a cross, at whose foot they affixed the coat of arms of France with this:

Taking the largest fragment of the broken idol the missionaries...towed it to the deepest part of the river so that it should be heard of no more. But the tradition says that after the fathers were far away a band of Indians coming to offer their homage to the deity found only its mutilated remains. Each took a fragment which he placed in his canoe as a fetish and it guided them to where the Spirit of the Manitou had taken refuge under the deep sombre shadow of Belle Isle.

 He bade them bring every fragment of his broken image and to strew them on the banks of his abode. They obeyed his order and behold each stone was converted into a rattlesnake, which should be as a sentinel... .

The Tugboat Hunter blog has a post with a view of the river from Belle Isle.

Sandusky And Sixteen Miles

The scope of the book, Old Fort Sandoski of 1745 and the "Sandusky Country", by Lucy Elliot Keeler:

"My story will be confined to the sixteen miles which separate Fort Stephenson at the Lower Falls of the Sandusky river, (now Fremont), from the banks of Lake Erie, at the mouth of the Portage river, (Port Clinton), the point visited by all Indians and French in coming from or going to Detroit and the northwest; and later the point from which General Harrison's army left American soil to pursue the British in Canada in his successful campaign terminating at the Battle of the Thames, October 5, 1813."

Nemacolin Path

From The Plains of Abraham by Brian Connell:

...with a small escort of frontiersmen and friendly Indians, he (George Washington) was to strike north-west from the border mountains for Lake Erie. He carried a formal letter from Dinwiddie to be delivered to the first French officer of authority he found....Washington's starting point was at Wills Creek [north of Fort Cumberland], a tributary of the upper Potomac on the Virginia side of the mountains. ...joined by Christopher Gist, the Ohio Company factor, who had blazed the Nemacolin trail for eighty miles to the Great Crossing of the Youghiogheny. Thence they would have to rely on Indian guides as far as Lake Erie. The season was far advanced for such a journey.

Detroit After The Revolution

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From A Little Girl in Old Detroit, by Amanda Minnie Douglas:

After the war of the Revolution was ended all the country south of the Lakes was ceded to the United Colonies. But Detroit was still largely a French town or settlement, for thus far it had been a military post of importance. The French were largely agriculturists, though many inside the Fort traded carefully, but the English claimed much of this business afterward.

Captain [Moses] Porter was very busy restoring order. Wells had been filled with stones, windows broken, fortifications destroyed. Arthur St. Clair had been appointed Governor of the Territory, which was then a part of Illinois, but the headquarters were at Marietta. Little attention was paid to Detroit further than to recognize it as a center of trade... . 

The Sudden Revolution Of Indian Affairs At Detroit

1812 Era Map

From the Report of the Public Archives, by Public Archives of Canada:


June 30 Fort Pitt [1761]  Bouquet to [Lt.-Gen. Robert] Monkton    The sudden revolution of Indian affairs at Detroit. The measures taken to prevent surprise; the inhabitants armed, guards along the rivers; temporary defences to the fort. Messages sent by the Detroit to the other Indians. A vessel on Lake Erie would be useful in supporting the advanced posts. Ammunition will not be sent to Detroit unless it can be delivered safely. The killing of the Indian is unlucky at present, but cannot be made a pretext for the conspiracy; the chiefs in the neighbourhood agreed at a conference that the Indian deserved his fate. An old Indian trader, a Pennsylvanian and batman to Captain Little was carried off by two Indians, a Delaware and a Mohican, but released by the latter whilst the other was absent hunting.

Allusion To The Arms

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From Legends of Le Détroit:

"The commander [LaSalle] had decided to name her [his ship] the 'Griffin,' in allusion to the arms of the Comte de Frontenac, whose supporters were 'Griffins.'  

 
The website of the Great Lakes Exploration Group has an article entitled, 331 Years Later, Has the Griffon Been Found?  Maybe not.

Bateaux In Michigan

Recovered Shipwreck From Lake Huron On Display At Sturgeon Point Lighthouse

April 6 Philadelphia [1761] It will be necessary to build more bateaux at Detroit; the ship carpenters are to be ordered there. [Source]

John Lees' Journal

Journal of J. L., of Quebec, merchant,  By John Lees, Society of Colonial Wars in the State of Michigan

An excerpt from the Journal:

"The passengers came all ashore at the long Wharff and were conducted by Captain Hall to one Collonel Ingarsols a good Tavern in Kings Street which leads down to the Kings Wharf."