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Early Detroit
as required in the order, made the report called for, in November, 1703, having assembled at Quebec, without notice to De la Motte, such persons as they saw fit, to pass upon the pro-
priety of continuing the post, and called in such traders and others from here as were then in Quebec, and these were not permitted to leave until they signed the report declaring the post uninhabitable and burdensome, and recommending its abandonment.
About this time the fort was partly burned, being set on fire by an Indian, supposed to be an Iroquois emissary.
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