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DATE OF THE DETROIT SETTLEMENT.
BY J. V. CAMPBELL.
As it is of some importance to determine the dates of our early settlements it may be worth while to collect even fragmentary notices of such facts as are to be found scattered among the authorities.
The precise date of the founding of Detroit has always been a matter of question. The settlement of 1701 has been adopted as its origin, because the only permanent one; but historians have, upon grounds more or less satisfactory, dated back the first establishment much further. It is impossible to fix this matter now with certainty, but the reasons are very strong in favor of the idea that the location chosen by De La Motte Cadillac was not a
new one.
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