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Early Detroit
No special vices seem to have marked his career or marred the harmony of his character. Such was De la Motte, the founder of Detroit, the first Governor of Louisana.
The Territory of Louisiana was at this time almost an unknown wilderness. Lower Louisiana contained only twenty-eight families of Frenchmen. One hundred and seventy-five soldiers were scattered at the different posts, a few hundred inhabitants were situated at different places throughout the vast territory, which scattered from the Alleghany to the Rocky Mountains
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