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War of 1812 Michigan. pg.53
River Raisin, July 17, 1812. Major James Withebell:
Sir: —We have understood from good authority that those men of Capt. Smyth's company who, we understand, came from Detroit in search of some deserters, have conducted themselves with great impropriety, viz: —before they arrived at Brownstown, they stripped and fought; that at Brownstown, or near there, they took a horse by fource from same Indian and have the horse now at this place. Some Indian passed here to-day who related the circumstance and sayed the horse
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