Indian Trader and Interpreter

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" Cliff Site NHS " by Yoho2001 . Original uploader was Yoho2001 at en.wikipedia - Transferred from en.wikipedia (Original text : Own photo). Licensed under CC BY-SA 3.0 via Wikimedia Commons . 1669-1670 "The Lake Erie Cross during the following April. There is some ground for the surmise that the missing men deserted to La Salle. The priests and the remaining seven men descended the Grand River, six in the canoes or dragging them through the shoal water, the others following the trail along the bank. Lake Erie seemed to them like a great sea. The wind was strong from the south. There was perhaps no lake in all the country whose billows rose so high as Lake Erie, because, as Galinee naively suggests, of its great depth and its great extent. WINTERING ON LAKE ERIE They wintered just above the forks where Black Creek joins the River Lynn, otherwise known as Patterson's Creek, at Port Dover. The exact spot was identified in August, 1900, at a ...

Kevin Lajiness 1 min  ·  Linwood, NJ  · It was Said That Pierre Roy, My Ancestor, was at Detroit before Cadillac (Pontiac was a typo) and he married a Miami named Margaret Ouabankikoue, this was told to me by my father as a child and the marriage was confirmed to me much later in life , now i have found the evidence that shows he was at Detroit before Cadillac. From the  evidence  below it is clear to me that the father of the Detroit Pierre Roy traveled to the Detroit area more than once and probably brought his son, who would of been old enough to get involved romantically, my father did mention Belle Isle but said "our people came from the Island just south of there" This is further substantiated by the record of   M. Louis Joliet  (the first explorer who passed up Detroit River) his  account  also below "1668. — Claude Dablon and Jaques Marquette established a permanent mission at Sault St. Marie, ...