Canibals French residents of Detroit in 1756 stated that Iroquois actually ate the flesh of persons slain in battle. (Farmer p 322)
In November of 1757 a party of three hundred Canadians and Indians fell upon the German settlers killed forty took one hundred and fifty captives and carried off an immense quantity of provisions and livestock. (Farmer p 233)
During French rule four kings and three regents exercised authority over Warren Henry IV Mary de Medici, Louis XIII, Anne, Louis XIV, Louis XV. They wanted power wealth and comfort for themselves. They did not care about our ancestors or their subjects.
Rule of law at last
For the first time
in our history we had a constitution and bill of rights.
No longer did Kings dictate to us,
or tribes attack us. We had rights and laws that people followed.
The rule of brute force had been defeated. Settlers no longer had to fear being
slaughtered for scalps or because someone wanted their land. Land was
recorded.
We had freedom of speech and religion.
We had a say in our government. But most of all we had Peace and
freedom with liberty and justice for all.
By
1817 democracy reined supreme said Parkins in his book Historical
Geography of
Detroit. He quotes a lady resident of
Even though
The
Americans knew very little about the interior except the areas near the
rivers
and lakes. Parkins states that the
swampy nature of the land in the spring and fall and the dense nature
of the
vegetation served to check travel and exploration until when in 1818 a
party
undertook to discover whether the interior was habitable.
They followed a road being built by
In
warm weather the canoe was the major method of transportation and in
winter the
snow shoe.
Parkins states that from 1818 immigration
steadily increased. By 1820 the population of
After
about 1818 we started to have rule by law not brute force. Constables
were appointed. People accused were able
to get a fair trial.
James
Fulton served as the first