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DATE OF THE DETROIT SETTLEMENT.
In the fall of 1687 the Baron La Hontan, with a company of regulars, returned with Tonty and Du Luth (who was Tonty's cousin), to Fort St. Joseph, which the baron was appointed to command. In August, 1788, in consequence of the abandonment of Ports Niagara and Frontenac, he deemed it his duty to demolish Fort St. Joseph and withdraw his men. Having
carefully destroyed the defences and buildings, he took his soldiers to Mackinaw. Prom this time on we have no mention of the rebuilding of Fort St.
Joseph.
But in 1689 there was some question raised about the expediency of continuing to maintain a post at Detroit, which could hardly have been Port St. Joseph (9 N. Y., Doc. 399).
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