THE OHIO VALLEY-GREAT LAKES ETHNOHISTORY
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Report on the Settlement
at Detroit
(March 28, 1716)
Council of the Navy in: Michigan Historical
Collections, XXXIII, pp. 574-576.
p. 574.
(page 574) the confiscation of the goods and of the furs returned- to furnish goods suitable for trading to any persons who are going into the back-woods, unless they have permission to go up there; also to forbid them under the like penalty- to supply any goods to those who have remained there without permission.
Given and decreed by the Council of the Navy held at the Louvre on the 28th of April, 1716.
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THE SETTLEMENT AT DETROIT.
Endorsed- 28th of March, 1716. Canada.
Report and decisions in the margin of the Council of the Navy.
Detroit is a post at the entrance of Lake Erie where the Huron savages and some Outavois and Missisagues are settled. The Miamis go to trade at this post. The first settlement was made 30 years ago under the governorship of M. d'Henonville. It was abandoned in consequence of the war with the Iroquois, and was afterwards re-established by M. de Callieres.
The King ceded it to the Company of the Colony, to carry on trade there. The Company gave two thousand crowns a year for the poor families of Canada.
The affairs of this Company, which had accumulated no funds, having got into a bad state, the post was granted by the King to the Sr. de la Mothe Cadillac with the monopoly of the trade.
When that officer was appointed Governor of Louisiana, this post was granted to the Sr. de la Forest, a Captain; and, on his death in 1714, M. de Vaudreuil had orders to send Captain the Sr. de Sabrevois there, who is now in command.
MM. de Ramezay and Begon, in their letter of the 7th of November, 1715, state.
That the said Sr. de Ramezay will not grant any license [to trade] at Detroit because it will be necessary to despatch Frenchmen with goods, on account of the war with the Fox Indians: but that he has granted permits for six boats on the representations made to him by the Sr. de Sabrevois that, without this help, this post would be aban-
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