Local History of Detroit and Wayne CountyGeorge Byron Catlin |
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... Wayne County & Home Savings Bank - Peoples State Bank - National Bank of Commerce - Merchants National Bank - Dime ... County Banks - Trust Com- panies __170-192 CHAPTER XI - BENCH AND BAR Legal Powers of French Commandants and of ...
... Wayne County & Home Savings Bank - Peoples State Bank - National Bank of Commerce - Merchants National Bank - Dime ... County Banks - Trust Com- panies __170-192 CHAPTER XI - BENCH AND BAR Legal Powers of French Commandants and of ...
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... Wayne . Under such conditions , Detroit and this section of Michigan were virtually cut off from the capital . Michigan Territory . On January 14 , 1803 , Wayne county was erected , Detroit being named as the county seat . The voters of ...
... Wayne . Under such conditions , Detroit and this section of Michigan were virtually cut off from the capital . Michigan Territory . On January 14 , 1803 , Wayne county was erected , Detroit being named as the county seat . The voters of ...
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... Wayne county in the convention , those elected from this county being Louis Beaufait , John Biddle , Am- mon Brown , J. D. Davis , George W. Ferrington , Caleb Harrington , Charles F. Irwin , John McDonnell , John Norvell , Asa H. Otis ...
... Wayne county in the convention , those elected from this county being Louis Beaufait , John Biddle , Am- mon Brown , J. D. Davis , George W. Ferrington , Caleb Harrington , Charles F. Irwin , John McDonnell , John Norvell , Asa H. Otis ...
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... Scott , of Kentucky with 1,600 mounted rangers from the Blue Grass country , bringing Wayne's strength to approximately 3,000 men . He then moved to the head • of the Maumee rapids where he built Fort Deposit 76 DETROIT AND WAYNE COUNTY.
... Scott , of Kentucky with 1,600 mounted rangers from the Blue Grass country , bringing Wayne's strength to approximately 3,000 men . He then moved to the head • of the Maumee rapids where he built Fort Deposit 76 DETROIT AND WAYNE COUNTY.
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... Wayne sent messengers to the Indians offer- ing them peace terms and advising them not to listen to the bad advice of the English . Although Little Turtle was willing to accept Wayne's proposals , the other chiefs voted ... WAYNE COUNTY 77.
... Wayne sent messengers to the Indians offer- ing them peace terms and advising them not to listen to the bad advice of the English . Although Little Turtle was willing to accept Wayne's proposals , the other chiefs voted ... WAYNE COUNTY 77.
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Page 98 - For the prevention of crimes and injuries the laws to be adopted or made shall have force in all parts of the district and for the execution of process criminal and civil, the governor shall make proper divisions thereof, and he shall proceed from time to time as circumstances may require to lay out the parts of the District in which the indian titles shall have been extinguished into counties and townships subject however to such alterations as may thereafter be made by the legislature...
Page 98 - Erie, where Fort Wayne now stands ; thence by a line west-northerly to the southern part of Lake Michigan ; thence along the western shores of the same to the northwest part...
Page 80 - Sir: The force at my disposal authorizes me to require of you the immediate surrender of Fort Detroit. It is far from my inclination to join in a war of extermination; but you must be aware that the numerous body of Indians who have attached themselves to my troops will be beyond my control the moment the contest commences. You will find me disposed to enter into such conditions as will satisfy the most scrupulous sense of honor. Lieut. Col. McDonald and Major Glegg are fully authorized to conclude...
Page 60 - I have the pleasure to inform you of the safe arrival of the troops under my command at this place, which was evacuated on the llth instant and taken possession of by a detachment of sixty-five men, commanded by Captain Moses Porter, whom I had detached from the foot of the Rapids for that purpose. Myself and the troops arrived on the 13th instant.
Page 21 - I leave you to imagine whether we avenged upon this idol, which the Iroquois had strongly recommended us to honor, the loss of our chapel. We attributed to it even the dearth of provisions from which we had hitherto suffered. In short, there was nobody whose hatred it had not incurred. I consecrated one of my axes to break this god of stone, and then having yoked our canoes together we carried the largest piece to the middle of the river, and threw all the rest also into the water, in order that...
Page 98 - Cuyahoga river : thence up the said river to the portage between it and the Tuscarawas branch of the Muskingum ; thence down that branch to the forks, at the crossing place above Fort Laurens ; thence with a line to be drawn westerly to the portage, on that branch of the Big Miami, on which the fort stood that was taken by the French in 1752...
Page 21 - This outlet is perhaps half a league in width and turns sharp to the north-east, so that we were almost retracing our path. At the end of six leagues we discovered a place that is very remarkable, and held in great veneration by all the Indians of these countries, because of a stone idol that nature has formed there. To it they say they owe their good luck in sailing on lake Erie, when they cross it without accident, and they propitiate it by sacrifices, presents of skins, provisions, etc., when...
Page 56 - I have lately heard that several parties of Indians of different nations have gone out to war against the frontiers of the American States. I do not think that the Indians will ever suffer the Americans to draw their boundary lines, survey or settle any part of their country.
Page 508 - McLean is a member of the Wayne County Medical Society, the Michigan State Medical Society, and the American Medical Association.
Page 239 - Amalgamated Association of Street and Electric Railway Employees of America, the parent body of the local that I belong to.