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SOURCES EARLY MICHIGAN HISTORY
prospects of the settlement at Detroit at that period were cheerless enough. A few years later and the chain which bound that settlement to the province of Quebec, or rather to Upper Canada, was severed forever; notwithstanding the great change which this had produced in the condition of the country our Canadian neighbors were unwilling to admit that it would advance our interests; on the contrary, this very change was to operate more powerfully against us. In 1812, and while Detroit was held by the enemy, Judge
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