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Early Detroit
They demanded that the golden stream should be quick and violent, and to meet this demand the government and trade of Louisiana, in 1817, passed into the hands of the new western company of John Law.
Of De la Motte's history after this I have been able to find no authentic trace. Some authors say he died in Louisiana while yet Governor and before Law's company took possession; others that he returned to France. That he died not far from this period I have no doubt, for if living he would have left his mark.
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