THE

EARLY HISTORY

OF

M I CH I G A N,

FROM THE FIRST SETTLEMENT TO 1815.

BY E. M. SHELDON.

NEW YORK:

A. S. BARNES & COMPANY, 51 & 53 JOHN-ST.
DETROIT :-KERR, MORLEY & CO.

1856.

Entered wouring to Act of Congress in the year 1956,

BY A. S. BARNES & 00.

In the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the Tamed States for the Southern District of New Yok

NEW YORK

RICHARD C. VALENTINE, STEREOTYPER AND ELECTROTYPIST, 17 Dutch-street, corner of Fulton,

NEW YORK.

GEORGE W. WOOD, Printer,

No. 2 Dutch-street

I Checked
May 1948

то

HON. LEWIS CASS,

SECOND GOVERNOR OF MICHIGAN,

WHOSE JUDICIOUS MANAGEMENT OF THE

NUMEROUS INDIAN TRIBES OF THE NORTHWEST

SECURED TO THE

PENINSULAR STATE

ITS PEACEFUL SETTLEMENT AND CONTINUED PROSPERITY,

This Volume

IS RESPECTFULLY DEDICATED.

Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1850,

By A. S. BARNES & CO., In the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the United States, for the Southern

District of New York,