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Conspiracy of Pontiac
The Seige of Detriot
The Ottawas encamped on Parent's Creek, in the rear of the house of Meloche, the Potawatamies went below the fort, and the Chippewas were near Benfait's (above the fort two and a half miles).
Two hundred head of cattle belonging to the government were killed on Hog Island. Mr. Pettier's father obtained permission from Pontiac to take the two children of Fisher to the fort to their uncle, but the servant woman he kept for a servant to his squaw.
Mr. Pettier's father and some other Canadians went over to Hog Island, with Pontiac's permission, to bury the dead. Mr. and Mrs. Fisher were put into the same grave. On the following day they crossed again, and passing the grave saw the hand of Fisher sticking out through the earth. They buried it. A few days after it was again discovered. They informed Le Pere Simple, a Catholic priest. He went there and made some prayers at the grave, re-interred the hand, and it did not re-protrude.
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