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Early Detroit
The King was to support the garrison, but the company were to transport provisions and other articles for that purpose at certain cheap rates. The commandant and one other officer were to be supported by the company.
After so far completing the fort as to make it defensible against Indians, erecting some log houses, and preparing the ground for fall crops, De la Motte addressed himself, with all the energy of character for which he was distinguished, to one of the great purposes he had in view, that of gathering around the infant settlement the Indian nations of this and the Upper Peninsula,
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