ABBOT, Governor, 91.

Academies, 317.

Adams, John Quincy, 219, 355.
Adrian, 239.

Aigrement, 29, 32.

Alger, Russell A., 390, 391, 396.
American Fur Company, 192, 397.
Amherst, General, 40, 41, 75.
Angell, James Burrill, 399, 400.
Ann Arbor, 239, 317.
Astor, John Jacob, 191.

Bagley, John J., 391.
Baldwin, Henry P., 390, 391.
Barry, John S., 294, 298.
Bates, Judge, 150.
Beauharnais, 35, 36.

Begole, Josiah W., 391, 392.
Bellestre, 43.

Bingham, Kinsley S., 305.
Bird, Captain, 102.

Black Hawk War, 212.

Blair, Austin, 305, 339.

Bliss, Aaron T., 392.

Boundary controversy, 214 et seq.
Bradstreet, General, 63, 68.
Brandy, trade in, 31-33, 51, 52.

Brant, Joseph, 106-109, 113, 116, 117.
British posts, detention of, 107, 114,
115, 118.

Brock, General, 174, 175, 177.
Buchanan, President, 339.
Burrows, Julius C., 390.
Burt, William A., 376.

Cadillac, La Motte, 14, 17-34, 401.
Cahokia, 96.

Calumet and Hecla mine, 375.
Campbell, Major, 60.

Canada, colonization of, 5; govern-
ment of, 8-10, 26; surrender to the
British, 40-44; despotic government
of, 46, 66-78.

Canals and locks, first a sluiceway,
380; Congress delays construction,
381; constructive problems, 381,

canal propy valuable, 382;
Weitzel lock, 382; Poe lock, 382;

supplementary water ways, 383, 384;
power canals, 385.

Carleton, Sir Guy, 75, 76, 85, 110, 112,
114.

Cartier, Jaques, 2.

Cass, Lewis, Colonel, 167, 172, 175;
made military governor, 187; ap-
pointed civil governor, 189; treaties
with Indians, 194; visits the upper
Lakes, 195, 196; his bravery, 196;
his democratic tendencies, 201, 205,
206; organizes counties, 201; be-
comes secretary of war, 203; his
habits, 204; favors general educa-
tion, 310, 314; obtains grant to Uni-
versity, 312; Nicholson letter of,
334; favors compromise of 1850,
335; speaks for the Union, 342; ex-
amines Ontonagon copper rock, 373,
374; statue erected, 387.
Catholepistemiad, 310.
Census of 1900, 397.

Champlain, Samuel de, 3.

Chandler, Elizabeth Margaret, 243.
Chandler, Zachariah, 335, 340, 387,
388.

Charlevoix, 35.

Charter contracts, 300.

Chicago, abandoned in 1812, 181.
Cholera in 1832-34, 212.
Cincinnati, 111.

Civil war, 1861-1865, 330-343.
Clarke, George Rogers, 93–104.
Clay, Henry, 165, 166.
Colbert, 109.

Coles, Edward, 138, 139

Colonization, European, 1; French, 5.
Company of the Colony of Canada, 26.
Company of the Hundred Associates,
6, 7.

Conger, Omar D., 390.
Congress of Nations, 16.
Constitution of the State of 1835, 225;
of 1850, 299-304; amendments of,
304, 392-395.

Constitutions, American, peculiar ex-
cellence of, 345; must necessarily
change, 347.

11

Conventions, state, 223, 249; "frost-
bitten," 224.

Copper mines, 16, 20, 78, 364; prehis-
toric workings, 373; first ore ship-
ment, 374; Ontonagon region, 374;
Calumet and Hecla, 375; present
development, 376; Lake Superior
mines, 380.

Corporate charters, 300.
Coureurs de bois, 21, 81, 232.
Craig, Governor-General, 166.
Crapo, Henry H., 292, 390.
Crary, Isaac E., 220, 320, 321.
Crittenden, John J., 337.
Croghan, George, 63.

Croswell, Charles M., 391.

Currency, early, 254 et seq.; cut, 257;

national, 357-361; wild-cat, 267-278.

Dearborn, Fort, 181.

Dearborn, General, 174.

Defiance, Fort, 182.

Dejean, Judge, 74, 75, 98-100.
De la Barre, 22.

Delegate in Congress, William Wood-
bridge, 199; Solomon Sibley, 199;
Gabriel Richard, 199; Austin E.
Wing, 200.
Denonville, 22.

De Peyster, Captain, 91, 101, 102.
Detroit, importance of, 14, 15; found-
ing of, 16-39; siege of, by Pontiac,
40-65; military government of, 66-
78; illegal grants at, 68-70; impor-
tance of, in the Revolution, 85-103;
surrender to the United States,
118; incorporation of, 141; destruc-
tion of, by fire, 152; Woodward,
plan of, 154; surrender of, by Hull,
175; Colonel Proctor, governor of,
180; evacuated by Proctor, 187;
condition in 1837, 237; capital re-
moved from, 296; citizens build
peninsula railroad, 384.
Detroit Bank, 155, 257, 258.
Detroit Young Men's Society, 239.
Dickinson, Don M., 390.

Dollier, 16.

Dongan, Governor, 22.

Dubuisson, 34.

Du Lhut, 15.

Du Monts, 3.

Dunmore, Governor, 88.

Education, state, review of, 306-329;
support of, 372; university, colleges,
and normal schools, 399, 400.
Erie and Kalamazoo Railroad, 279.
Erie Canal, 203.

Explorations, early, 1, 12, 16.

Federal relations in 1837, review of,
226; after the Civil War, 244–371.
Felch, Alpheus, 296.
Findlay, Colonel, 167.

Fort Stanwix treaty, 108, 111.
Forts, Dearborn, 181; Defiance, 182;
Le Bœuf, 56, 60; Meigs, 186; Mi-
ami, 43, 56, 60, 115-117; Niagara,
56, 60, 62, 63; Ouatanon, 43, 56, 60;
Pitt, 56, 60; Pontchartrain, 19, 29;
Sandusky, 56, 60; Stephenson, 186;
St. Joseph on St. Clair River, 15;
St. Joseph on Lake Michigan, 56,
60; Venango, 56, 60.

Fox, Charles James, 84.
Free schools, 303-329.
French farms, 190, 233.

Frenchtown massacre, 182-184.
Frontenac, Count, 9, 10.

Fur trade, American, 4, 22, 23, 29,

Haldimand, Sir Frederick, 107, 397.
Hamilton, Alexander, 347-349, 351.
Hamilton, Governor, 75, 85, 90.
Harmar, General, 112.
Harrison, William H., governor, 135;
general, 182, 186.
Holland Colony, 297.
Horner, John S., 221.
Houghton, Dr. Douglass, surveys cop-
per region, 374; his party finds iron,
376.

Hulbert, Edwin, 375.

Hull, William, 148-163.
Hundred Associates, 6, 7.
Hurons, 4.

Illinois, attempt to legalize slavery in,
137-139.

Immigration to Michigan, 197, 202,
203, 296, 402.

Indian affairs, bad management of,
47-54.

Indian massacres in Northwest Ter-
ritory, 111, 112.

Indian trade, rivalry for, 4, 22, 23,
29; pathway of, to Quebec, 16.

Indian treaties, how obtained, 159,
169.

Indiana, attempts to legalize slavery
in, 133-139.

Indians, conversion of, 20, 21, 23, 38,
142-144; use of, in the Revolution,
86-94.

Industrial development, 372-380, 385-
387, 396, 397.
Industries, household, 234.
Internal improvements, 279-293, 296,
384, 385.

Iron mines, 364, 367; discovered, 376,
377; development, 377-379; Lake
Superior mines, 380.

Iroquois, 4, 10, 36, 106, 108, 109.

Jackson, President, 207, 218-220, 222.
Jay's Treaty, 118, 136.

Jefferson, Thomas, 125, 126, 130, 147;
constitutional views of, 347-349,
351, 371.

Jerome, David H., 391.

Jesuits, 4, 5, 10, 25, 27, 28.

Johnson, Sir John, 110, 112.

407

Lumber, protection for, 365, 366; an-
nual production, 386, 387.
Lyon, Lucius, 220.

Mackinaw, 102, 118, 143, 170.
Malden, evacuated by Proctor, 187.
Marest, 14, 29.
Marietta, 111.

Marquette, Jaques, 4, 10-13; founds
St. Ignatius, 12; death of, 13.
Marshall, village, 239.
Marshall, Chief Justice, 358.
Mason, John T., appointed territorial
secretary, 207.

Mason, Stevens T., territorial secre-
tary, 208; acting governor, 208, 220;
not of age when appointed, 208-210;
elected governor of State, 219; pro-
tests against act of admission, 224,
225; on banking, 264-266, 269, 272,
276; on internal improvements,

281-285.

Kaskaskia, capture of, 95, 96.

McClelland, Robert, 304.
McDougall, Lieutenant, 60.

McMillan, James, manufacturer and
philanthropist, 388, 389; notable
service in Congress, 389, 390; secures
Fort Mackinaw reservation for park,
398.

92-94.

King, Rufus, 127.

La Foret, 135.

Lamothe, 99, 100.

La Motte Cadillac, 14, 17-34, 39, 401.
Land claims, early, about Detroit,
145.

Land speculations, 255.
Langlade, Charles de, 91.

Lansing, capital removed to, 296.

La Roche, 3.

La Salle, 15-17.

Lawyers, early, 248.

Le Baye, 56, 63.

Le Bœuf, Fort, 56, 60.

Legal-tender acts, 360.

Liberty, English, 45, 46.
License laws, 300, 301, 304.
Lincoln, President, 336, 356.

Liquor traffic, 144. See Trade, Indian.
Livingston, Robert, 24.

Loan, state, for internal improvement,
283.

Logan, Chief, 88.

Lothrop, George Van Ness, 390.
Lucas, Governor, 218.

Luce, Cyrus G., 391, 392.

Miami, Fort, 43, 56, 60, 115-117.
Michigan Territory, organized, 140;
ignorance concerning, 192, 193.
Michigan University, 310-329.
Michilimackinac, 11, 14, 18, 27, 30,
38, 78; mission at, 12, 13, 15, 28;
surrender to the British, 43, 44;
capture by the Indians, 60, 61; be-
comes Mackinaw, 102.

Militia in Spanish War, 395, 396.
Miller, Colonel, 174.

"Miner" law, 401.

Money, early, 254-278, 357-361.

Monopoly in banking, 261, 269, 275.

Monquagon, fight at, 174.

Monroe, 239.

Montcalm, 28.

Monteith, John, 200, 309, 315.

Montreal, 3, 40.

Moravian town, fight at, 187.

Mormon colony, 297.

Morris Canal and Banking Company,
286.

Mundy, Edward, 219.
Murray, General, 75.

National banks, 357, 358.
Negro riot, 213.