Detroit River Connections : Historical and

Mrs. Jacobson here examines the history of the area along Lake Erie encompassed by Detroit, Michigan and Windsor, Ontario. Genealogists will find most most valuable the sketches she has prepared on a number of border families spanning the 18th and 19th centuries.

Acknowledgements

v

Preface

vi

In Explanation

vii

Symbols Used

vii

Names

viii

Other

ix

Maps

x

Great Lakes Region

x

Detroit / Windsor Border Region Circa 1750

xi

Detroit Circa 1790

xii

History of the Border Region

1

(5)

On the Michigan Side of the Border

6

(9)

Bass Islands

6

(1)

Belle Isle

6

(1)

Bois Blanc Island

7

(1)

Detroit

7

(4)

Grosse Pointe

11

(1)

Grosse Isle

11

(1)

L'Arbre Croche

11

(1)

Mackinac / Michilimackinac

11

(2)

Maumee / Miami

13

(1)

Raisin River

13

(1)

River Rouge

14

(1)

On the Ontario Side of the Border

15

(10)

Amherstburg

17

(1)

Bois Blanc Island

18

(1)

Clear Creek / Clearville / Orford

18

(1)

Essex

19

(1)

Kingston

20

(1)

Ottawa Waterway

20

(1)

Pain Court

20

(1)

Petite Cote

21

(1)

Point Pellee

21

(1)

St. Joseph Island

21

(1)

Thamesville

22

(1)

Windsor (Ferry) / Sandwich

23

(2)

Families

25

(133)

Askins Family

25

(19)

James Askin / Erskine Family

25

(18)

William Askins Family

43

(1)

Barthe Family

44

(5)

Baudry dit Desbuttes dit St. Martin Family

49

(3)

Bondy Family

52

(6)

Brush Family

58

(6)

Burns Family

64

(7)

Samuel Burns Family

66

(4)

Nicholas Burns Family

70

(1)

Campeau / Campau / Campault Family

71

(15)

Cassidy / Casety / Cassedy Family

86

(2)

Chapoton Family

88

(7)

Donovan Family

95

(2)

Elliott Family

97

(4)

Fields Family

101

(4)

Jacob Family

105

(3)

Landon Family

108

(15)

James Landon I Family

108

(2)

James Landon II Family

110

(4)

Daniel Landon Family

114

(9)

McKee Family

123

(6)

May Family

129

(3)

Navarre Family

132

(8)

Pattinson Family

140

(3)

Reddick Family

143

(2)

Richardson Family

145

(5)

Robertson Family

150

(6)

Viller / Villier / Villiar Family

156

(2)

Appendix

158

(22)

Askin

158

(7)

Erskine / Arreskin Family of Scotland

158

(4)

Rea / Rae Family

162

(1)

John Askwith

163

(2)

Baudry

165

(2)

Baudry / Dusault Genealogy

165

(1)

Archange St. Martin Marriage

165

(2)

Brush

167

(2)

Thomas Brush Genealogy

167

(1)

Crean Brush

167

(2)

Burns

169

(1)

Will

169

(1)

Newspaper Article

169

(1)

Landon

170

(3)

Oliver Landon's Answers to Robert Gourlay's Questionnaire

170

(3)

McKee

173

(1)

Letter from Thomas Mckee to Edward Shippen

173

(1)

Navarre

174

(1)

Early Navarre Genealogy

174

(1)

Pattinson

175

(1)

Will of Richard Pattinson

175

(1)

Reddick

176

(1)

William Reddick

176

(1)

Richardson

177

(1)

Headstone of Marie Caroline Richardson

177

(1)

Robertson

178

(1)

Hamilton Family

178

(1)

Miscellaneous

179

(1)

Cadillac Family

179

(1)

Literature Cited

180

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Detroit River Connections : Historical and Biographical Sketches of the Eastern Great Lakes Border Region

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