Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CONSPIRACY OF PONTIAO. 1763. Under this conspiracy eleven posts were attacked, and eight captured. June 2d. Fort Michilimackinac was captured. The garrison consisted of Captain Etherington, Lieutenants Jamet and Leslie, and about thirty-five men. A band of Chippewas, while playing a game of ball just outside of the Fort, knocked the ball, as if by accident, so that it fell inside the stockade; the players rushed after it, and seizing their weapons from squaws, who had them concealed under their blankets, and had previously entered the Fort as a part of the plot, they raised the war-whoop and fell upon the garrison. Lieutenant Jamet and fifteen men were killed. Captain Etherington and Lieutenant Leslie, who were watching the game of ball, and the rest of the garrison were taken prisoners; they were afterwards ransomed by Lieutenant Gorell and his command from the Fort at Green Bay. 1779. At noon Sunday, Oct. 3d, the new Fort at Detroit was named " Fort Lenault." Oct. 4. Lieut.-Governor Patrick Sinclair arrived at "Old Mackinaw." Oct. 15. Major Arent Schuyler DePeyster left Old Mackinaw at 5 p. M. for Detroit, on board His Majesty's armed sloop Welcome, Alexander Harrow, Master. Oct. 20. Major DePeyster arrived at Detroit at 8 A. M. Saturday, Nov. 6. Lieut.-Gov. Sinclair sent a detachment of artificers to live and work upon Mackinac Island. The timbers of a house for their use were carried over with them, on the sloop Welcome. Major DePeyster with a view of building a Fort thereupon and removing there with the garrison from OldMackinaw, textit{as a measure of safety from the Americans, had previously secured a title to the Island from the Chippewa chief Kitchienago, who occupied it with his band. 1780. Early in the year the timbers of the Catholic church a...