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Reminscences of early Michigan History 1800's
At Mackinaw his vessel was chartered by the government to take military stores and supplies to the garrison at Chicago, then a small military and trading post. She was also to bring back a cargo of furs and skins for the government and himself. The commanding officer at Mackinaw, Lieut. Hanks, furnished father with a box of ammunition, twelve stand of arms, and a non-commissioned officer and six men as a guard against Indians, who were then openly hostile, and it was known that war was imminent. Before his return from Chicago he was decoyed into the harbor of Mackinaw, which had in the meantime
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