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Conspiracy of Pontiac
The Seige of Detriot
Detroit, March 10, 1864. Hon. C. I. WdlJeer, Secretary of the Detroit Historical Society:
My Dear Sir—The society now having made arrangements for the safe preservation of documents illustrative of our local history, I have decided to comply with your request, made some years since, to present to the society the original manuscript accounts, taken by me just forty years ago from the lips of the parties whose statements are contained in the following pages. And as the originals are in lead and liable to be defaced, I have thought it well to accompany them with this literal copy, drawn by my own hand, with a view to prevent the mistakes in copying which a stranger might commit. As the substance of the statements has been incorporated in Parkman's book, they have little value except as evidence to show the authenticity of that narrative.
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