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The ordinance was interpreted to mean that no more new slaves could be brought into the area. [12] The Jay Treaty between Great Britain and the United States made it illegal to buy and sell slaves. The treaty did not change the status, though, of 300 existing slaves who lived in Detroit in 1795. [8]
The city is in western Muskegon County on the north side of Muskegon Lake, an arm of Lake Michigan. It is bordered to the south, across the lake, by the city of Muskegon, the county seat. The Muskegon River flows into Muskegon Lake in the eastern part of the city. The lake's outlet channel to Lake Michigan is a mile west of the city limits.
After the arrival of Europeans, the area that became the Michigan Territory was first under French and then British control. The first Jesuit mission, in 1668 at Sault Saint Marie, led to the establishment of further outposts at St. Ignace (where a mission began work in 1671) and Detroit, first occupied in 1701 by the garrison of the former Fort de Buade under the leadership of Antoine de La ...
The area was part of French Canada from 1668 to 1763. In 1701, the French officer Antoine de la Mothe Cadillac, along with fifty-one additional French-Canadians, founded a settlement called Fort Pontchartrain du Détroit, now the city of Detroit. When New France was defeated in the French and Indian War, it ceded the region to Britain in 1763.
Southern pier of the Muskegon Lake entrance channel at Lake Michigan, 500 ft (150 m) from shore 43°13′36″N 86°20′29″W / 43.226667°N 86.341389°W / 43.226667; -86.341389 ( Muskegon South Pierhe
Bounded roughly by Clay, Muskegon, Second, and Sixth streets Muskegon: October 29, 1971: Muskegon Log Booming Company Informational Site 44 Ottawa Street Muskegon: August 23, 1956: Muskegon Woman's Club: 280 Webster Avenue Muskegon: September 3, 1998: Muskegon State Park: 462 North Scenic Drive Muskegon: July 26, 2009: Old Indian Cemetery: 351 ...
From 1660 to 1763, Michigan was part of the Royal Province of New France, which included France's laws making sodomy a capital offense.In 1763, Michigan was transferred to Great Britain's Indian Reserve and adopted British buggery statute that mandated a sentence of death for male-male buggery.
The entrance to Muskegon Lake from Lake Michigan. The name "Muskegon" is derived from the Ottawa mashkiigong, meaning "marshy river or swamp". [9] [10]The "Masquigon" River (Muskegon River) was identified on French maps dating from the late 17th century, suggesting French explorers had reached Michigan's western coast by that time.