Fugitive Slave

Thornton Blackburn Collection, Record Group 56-26, Dept. of State.  Fugitve slave case in Detroit, MI, 1833.

Covert, Michigan

Pearl Sarno Collection, Record Group 2006-27.  Integration in small West Michigan Community.

See publication: A Stronger Kinship by Anna Lisa Cox.  www.strongerkinship.com

Isle Royal

ISLE ROYALE – 1920’s

GII 67 84

Proposed Legislation, 1923 relates to Isle Royale, its Lands, Lumber, Mines, Park creation, etc.  Mentions Isle Royale Copper Co., Island Copper Co., Isle Royale Land Co.  Box 84 Official, 1923.

Isle Royale Natural History Association incorporated January 25, 1963. Contact person:  Wm. W. Dunniere, 87 North Ripley Street, Houghton.

1.     Michigan History.  Archeology 25:344, 345; bibliography 25:352, 353; copper mining 25:337-342; description 22:281, 282; 25:331-353; history 19:449-456; 22:281, 282; 25:331-353; Indian, copper workings, 6:616; 7:155-162; moose and caribou on 10:472-473; Natural Arch, view of 20:325; natural history survey 6:725; reminiscences of 9:398-412; Franklin Isle Royal Expedition, findings 8:450-468; 25:100, 101; Isle Royale Archeological Expedition 13:308-323.

Maps (Michigan History Vol. 25, P353.)  Proposed Isle Royale National Park, 1931.  Michigan Geological Survey Map of Isle Royale, 1928.  Plat of Isle Royale—John Farmer, 1858.  Geological Map of Isle Royale, Lane and Stockley, 1897.  Geol. Map of Isle Royale, Charles T. Jackson, 1847.  Lake Superior Coast Chart No. 8, Corps of Engineers, Map of Isle Royale, Rawlings, 1936.

In Michigan History, 31:436, 83, 238, 168, 433-36, 49; 33:335; 34:112, 114, 124.

3.     Papers of the Michigan Academy of Arts, Science, and Letters.

4.     Michigan Forestry and Park Association, Annual Proceedings, 30th Conference.  (March, 1956) “Isle Royal National Park,” (4 p.) by Robert Gibbs, Supt. of Isle Royal National Park.

Iron Works Monroe County

IRON – MONROE COUNTY – 1820

Detroit Gazette                                IRON WORKS
December 13, 1822

Iron Works.  We are gratified to find that iron ore has been found in sufficient quantity in the country of Monroe, to induce a gentleman from New York to commence working it.  This ore is said to be very rich, and there is a prospect that enough of iron can be made from it to supply the present demand of the country.

Iron Furnaces

Source:

1.     MICHIGAN HISTORY – 11:164-166; in Delta County, 4:461-474; in Gogebic County 6:  331, 332; in Gogebic Range 9:371-377; in Marquette County 3: 251, 252; 5:150-166; 6:306, 307; 11:191-207 views of minesll:  193, 196, 199, 201, 203, 205.  Dunathan, Clint, “Fayette” (December 1951) 41:204.  See also 35:505-6 “Fayette Furnace”

2.     Vertical file:  Iron.  MICHIGAN’S UPPER PENINSULA IRON ORE INDUSTRY AND clippings from Marquette MINING JOURNAL and Escanaba DAILY PRESS, 1957.

3.     Brotherton, R. A. “Industry of Iron Ore; Negaunee Centennial” in MICHIGAN HISTORY, 28:199-213.  Similar article in INLAND SEAS, October, 1946, “The Jackson Mine and Negaunee, Michigan.”

4.     MICHIGAN GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF MICHIGAN.  Vol. 1, Part 1:  The Iron Region.

5.     Detroit POST AND TRIBUNE, January 23, 1882.  P9, Col. 1 Mentions Munising Kilns. Ore hauled to the Martel Furnace at St. Ignace. Average over 500 tons per week and from 200 to 300 loads of logs each week.

R. D. Burroughs, Conservation Department, 1957

Internal Improvements

INTERNAL IMPROVEMENT

G 10
B 18

G 9
B35
G 7
B 2
F13

GII
B33
F11    Grand River Improvements

GII
Reports 1911.

Michigan charged with 286,751,40 on books of U.S. Treasury as provided by act approved June 23, 1836.  January 14, 1911, letter includes history of loan.  “Unavailable moneys.”

G 9
B26
F11

F7

B26
F 8
F9

B39
F66
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Indians – Potawatomi and Ottawa in Oceana County

RESEARCH – INDIANS – POTAWATOMI AND OTTAWA IN OCEANA COUNTY

Sources:

1.    Archeaological Atlas of Michigan-Hinsdale, N.  1931.
2.    Michigan Pioneer Collections Vol. 3 P368
3.    Lowell-100 years of History-Southwick

General:

1.    History of Manistee, Mason, and Oceana County Page and Co., 1881
2.    Oceana County Topography, Biography, History, Art Folio & Directory of Freeholders.  Imperial Publishing Co., Saginaw. n.d.
3.    Standard Atlas of Oceana County, Michigan.  Ogle & Co., 1913.
4.    History of Ottawa and Chippewa Indians-Blackbird, Andrew J. 1887.
5.    Red Man’s America – Underhill, Ruth Murray, University of Chicago Press.  1953
6.    Indians of the Western Great Lakes-Kinietz, Williams Vernon, University of Michigan Press, 1940.
See:  Correspondence Mr. Frank A. Anthony, September 27, 1955.

See:  Totem Pole, April 2, 1956 “The Last of the Ottawa” by A. L. Spooner.

Cheyboygan County Indians / Native Americans

Source:

Totem Pole March 5, 1956

2.     Messages of the Governors of Michigan Vol. 4, P271.

3.     Indian Affairs, Laws and Treaties.  Vol. II.  (Treaties) Comp and ed by Charles J. Kappler.  Washington:  U.S. Government printing office, 1904.  P.734 Treaty with the Chippewa of Saginaw, etc. 1855.  “Art. 3.  The Said Chippewas of Saginaw, and of Swan Creek and Black River, hereby ceded to the United States all lands within the State of Michigan heretofrore owned by them as reservations, and whether held for them in trust by the U.S. or otherwise, and they do hereby, jointly and severally, release and discharge the U.S. from all liability to them, and to their, or either of their said tribes, for the price and value of all such lands, heretofroe sold, and the proceeds of which remain unpaid.

And they also hereby surrender all their, and each of their permanent annuities, secured to them, or either of them by former treaty stipulations, including that portion of the annuity of 1800 dollars payable to “the Chippewas,” by the treaty of November 17, 1807, to which they are entitled, it being distinctly understood and agreed, that the grant and payments herein before provided for, are in lieu and satisfaction of all claims legal and equitable on the part of the said Indians, jointly and severally, against the U.S. for land, money, or other things guaranteed to said tribes, or either of them, by the stipulation of any former treaty or treaties.

See Vertical file for Brief of Jonas Shawanassee.

Cheboygan Democrat, November 24, 1900.  Governor Pingree has gone to Washington to consult the State Department.  Same.  December 22, 1900.  Some Plain Facts about the case of the Indians of Burt Lake and their loss of property.

Lansing STATE JOURNAL, March 13, 1956.  Indian land claims sent to Governor Williams.

Native American Treaties

Link: Charles J. Kappler, Indian Treaties, 1778-1883

Indian / Native American Trails

Source:

1.     See Michigan Encyclopedia (boxed at Archives) Hinsdale, W. B. Indians’ Modes and Paths of Travel in Michigan.  Chart of trails.