by Tiya Miles
agriculture; Elliott; famine; farmers’ market; John Askin; Moravian missionaries; ribbon farms; slaves and; William Macomb
Ainse, Sally
Albany, New York
alcohol
Alegria, Crystal
Amadahy, Zainab
American Revolution. See Revolutionary War
Amherstberg, Ontario; maps. See also Fort Malden
Anderson, John
Anishinaabeg. Seealso Ojibwes; Ottawas; Potawatomies
Ann Arbor
Anzaldúa, Gloria
Askin, Adelaide (Alice). See Brush, Adelaide Askin
Askin, Archange (1775–ca. 1866)
Askin, Catherine (Kitty)
Askin, James
Askin, John; Alexander Grant relations; on black militiamen; death; Denisons and; on Detroit’s incorporation; on Elijah Brush; fire code offender; fire of 1805; French language use; justice of the peace; land speculation; Macomb estate purchases; Moravian missionary relations; move across river; ribbon farm; St. John’s Church; Sally Ainse relations; slaves and servants
Askin, John, Jr.
Askin, Madelaine
Askin, Marie-Archange Barthe (1747–1820)
Baby, Jacques Duperon
Bacon, David
Bald, Clever
Bangs, Nathaniel
banks
Barron, James
Barthe, Jean Baptiste
Barthe, Marie-Archange. See Askin, Marie-Archange Barthe
Barthe family
Bates, Frederick
Battle of Fallen Timbers
Battle of New Orleans
Battle of the Thames
Beaubien, Antoine
Beaubien family
beavers. See also fur trade
Belle Isle. See Hog Island (Belle Isle)
Berthelet, Henry
Biddle, Eliza
Biddle, John
Biddle, William
Billettes, Francis
Bird, Henry
Blackbird, Andrew
Blackburn, Lucie
Blackburn, Thornton
black code (1827)
Black Code (French slavery). See Code Noir
black militia; historiography
black servants. See African American servants
black soldiers. See African American soldiers
Blue Jacket
board of trustees
Bohaker, Heidi
Boone, Daniel
Boston
Bradstreet, John
Bright, Charles
British loyalists; James May and; Sandwich
British navy
Brock, Isaac
Brunsman, Denver
Brush, Adelaide Askin; home; War of 1812
Brush, Charles R.
Brush, Edmund
Brush, Elijah; black militia; death; Denisons and; Elliott case; home; letter to Jefferson; militia leader; post-fire land allotment and sales; slaves and servants; town trustee; War of 1812
Burnett, William
Byrd, Jodi
Cadillac, Antoine Laumet de La Mothe, Sieur de
Cahokia, Illinois
Campau, Joseph
Campau, Simon
Campau (Campeau) family; Belle Isle
Campbell, Donald
Canada’s Forgotten Slaves (Trudel)
Cangany, Catherine: Frontier Seaport
canoes
capital punishment
Capitulation of Montreal
captives, Native American. See Native American captives and captive-taking
Caribbean, French. See French Caribbean
Cass, Lewis
Catholic Church. See also Ste. Anne’s Catholic Church
censuses
Chardavoyne, David
Chatham, Ontario
Chêne, Pierre
Cherokees
Chesapeake-Leopard affair
Chicago
Chillicothe, Ohio
Chippewas. See Ojibwes
Choctaws
Cicotte (Chicoste) family
Cincinnati
Clark, George Rogers
class consciousness
Clinton River. See Huron River (Clinton River)
Code Noir
colleges and universities
commons
Congo, Louis
Congress, U.S. See U.S. Congress
Continental Congress
Constitutional Convention
Contencineau, Jean
cooks and cooking
Cooper, Afua
Cooper, Joseph
Cotteral, George
Council House
Countryman, Edward
Creeks
Crees
criminal justice
Croghan, George
Cronon, William
Crouch, Christian
Cuba
Cuillerier, Marie Angelique. See Sterling, Angelique
Curry, Peter
Cutten, Josiah (Joseph Cotton)
Cuyahoga
Dailey, William
Dakotas
Dane, Peter
d’Auteuil, Ruette
Dearborn, Henry
death sentence
DeBaptiste, George
Dejean, Philip
Delawares; massacres; midwives; Pontiac’s War; Revolutionary War; Shawnee relations; Wayne and
Denison, Charlotte Paul
Denison, Eastman
Denison, Elizabeth (Lisette); death; historiography; land purchases; portrait; War of 1812
Denison, Hannah; birth; death; War of 1812
Denison, James
Denison, Peter; death; commemorative plaques; militia officer; War of 1812
Denison, Peter, Jr.
Denison, Scipio (Sip)
Denison v. Tucker
De Peyster, Arent Schuyler
“Détroit” (name)
Detroit fire of 1805. See fire of 1805
Detroit Gazette
Detroit Historical Museum
Detroit Land Board. See Land Board of Detroit
Detroit ordinances. See ordinances, municipal
Detroit River; in art; Brush farm; ferries; historiography; international border; ribbon farms; winter travel on
Detroit School of Urban Studies
Detroit Treaty. See Treaty of Detroit (1807)
Dilhet, Jean
disease
District of Hesse. See Hesse
Dodemead, James
Dodemead, John
Dolson, Matthew
Donnelson, James
Duggan, Thomas
Duncan, John
Dunnigan, Brian Leigh: Frontier Metropolis
Du Sable, Jean Baptiste Pointe
Duval, Kathleen
Dwight, Ed
Edwards, Laura
Elliott, Andrew
Elliott, Matthew; lawsuit; slaves; War of 1812
Erie Canal
escaped slaves; court cases; Denisons; Elliott case; habeas corpus and; indenture and; indigenous spaces and; James Sterling and; legislation and ordinances; Levy; militias; Pattinson case; Quinn; Richard Smyth and. See also Underground Railroad
Eustis, William
Fairfield on the Thames
Fallen Timbers, Battle of. See Battle of Fallen Timbers
“fancy trade”
Faragher, John Mack
Farmers and Mechanics Bank
farming. See agriculture
“fat beaver”
fear of Indian attacks
fire of 1805; rebuilding
fire prevention
Flower, Jacob
A Fluid Frontier (Frost and Tucker)
Ford, Abraham
Ford, Mary Louise
Fort Detroit site and plan; early buildings
Forth, Elizabeth Denison. See Denison, Elizabeth (Lisette)
Forth, Scipio
fortifications
Fort Lernoult (Fort Shelby)
Fort Mackinac
Fort M
alden; War of 1812
Fort Michilimackinac; Askin; Detroit fire of 1805; Mitchell; Sally Ainse
Fort Niagara; maps
Fort Sackville
Fort Shelby. See Fort Lernoult (Fort Shelby)
Fort Wayne; maps
Foxes
Fox War
free blacks; kidnapping of. See also Dennison, Elizabeth (Lisette); escaped slaves
freemasons
free people of color (gens de couleur libre). See also free blacks
French and Indian War
French Caribbean
French language; Hannah Denison; Sibley on; Woodward
French servants
French Town
“frontier” (word)
Frontier Metropolis (Dunnigan)
Frontier Seaport (Cangany)
Frost, Karolyn Smardz
Fugitive Slave Act
fugitive slaves. See escaped slaves
fur trade; African American men; Askin; British and; decline; Detroit as hub; intermarriage in; Macomb family; power couples. See also Abbott & Finchley
Gage, Thomas
Geel, Abraham
gens de couleur libre. See free people of color (gens de couleur libre)
gift giving; captives in
Girardin, Jacques
Gladwin, Henry
godparents
Gouin (Gouen) family
Graham, Isabella
Graham, Mary Henrietta
Grant, Alexander
Grant, Colonel (Kentucky slaveholder)
Grant, Jaspar
“Great Father”
Great Peace of Montreal
Green, James
Griffin, John
Griswold, Stanley
Grivno, Max
Grosse Ile
habeas corpus
Haldimand, Frederick
Hamilton, Henry
Hands, William
Harrison, William Henry
Harrow, Alexander
Harvey, John
Haudenosaunee (Iroquois). See also Mohawks; Oneidas; Senecas
Heath, Barbara
Hecker, Joseph
Heckewelder, John
Hennepin, Louis
Henry, Patrick
Hesse District
Heward, James
Hickman, Harris
historiography
Hog Island (Belle Isle)
House, Michael
Hull, A.J.
Hull, Sarah
Hull, William; black militia; court-martial and death sentence; fear of Indian attack; Indian relations; Land Board; land purchases; War of 1812; Woodward relations
hunting
Huron River (Clinton River)
Hurons (Wyandots); African intermarriage; captive-taking; land cessions; Pontiac’s War; Revolutionary War; Ste. Anne’s Church
Hyde, Anne
Illinois; dispossession of Native lands; War of 1812. See also Cahokia, Illinois; Chicago
Illinois people
impressment
incorporation, municipal
indenture; Denisons; laws
Indiana; dispossession of Native lands; maps; Prophet’s Town; War of 1812. See also Vincennes, Indiana
Indian agents. See also Elliott, Matthew
Indian attacks, fear of. See fear of Indian attacks
Indian captives and captive-taking. See Native American captives and captive-taking
Indian reservations
Indian slaves. See Native American slaves
inheritance of slaves
intermarriage; Afro-Indian; British-French; slaves
interracial sex. See also mixed-race people; sexual slavery and concubinage
Iroquois. See Haudenosaunee (Iroquois)
Jackson, Andrew
Jay, John
Jay Treaty
Jefferson, Thomas; appointees; Chesapeake-Leopard affair; Indian relations; Michigan Territory; Notes on the State of Virginia; Woodward relations
Johnson, Charles
Johnson, William
Jones, Martha
Jones, Thomas
Jones v. Abbott
Kaskaskia
Kentucky
Kickapoo people
King Louis XIV. See Louis XIV, King of France
King Louis XV. See Louis XV, King of France
LaForce, Agnes
Lake Erie; Erie Canal; War of 1812
Lake Huron; maps
Lake Ontario; maps
Lake St. Clair
Langdon, Austin
Larkin, Benjamin
La Leavre, Charles
Land Board of Detroit
land grabs
language, French. See French language
languages, Native American. See Native American languages
Landry, Charles
Lassalle, Jacques
La Vente, Henri Roulleaux
Lawrence, Bonita
lawsuits
leather goods
Lee, William
L’Enfant, Pierre Charles
Leopard-Chesapeake affair. See Chesapeake-Leopard affair
Lernoult, Richard
Levy, J.
liquor. See alcohol
Louis XIV, King of France
Louis XV, King of France
loyalists. See British loyalists
Mack, Stephen
Mackelm, James
Mackin, Jill
Mackinac. See Fort Mackinac
Mackintosh, Angus
Macomb, Alexander (1748–1831)
Macomb, Alexander (1782–1841)
Macomb, David
Macomb, Edgar & Macomb
Macomb, John Gordon
Macomb, John W.
Macomb, Sarah Jane Dring
Macomb, William; account book; death; Moravian missionary relations; ribbon farm; Sally Ainse relations; slaves
Macomb, William, Jr.
Macomb County
Madison, James
Maney, David
maps
marriage, mixed. See intermarriage
marriage “in the custom of the country”
Marietta, Ohio
Mascouten people
Masonville, Alexis
Massachusetts. See also Boston
massacres
May, James; code violator; death; fire of 1805; letter to Jefferson; slaves; taxpayer; University of Michigan; U.S. marshal; Woodward relations
May, Joseph
Mazur, Shawna
McDonald, James
McDonnell, Michael
McDougall, George
McDougall, Robert
McGraw, Bill
McKee, Alexander
McLean, Hector
McNelly, Peter
Meldrum, George
Meldrum and Park
memorial sculptures
merchants (retailers). See also Abbott & Finchley; Phyn and Ellice; Macomb, Edgar & Macomb
Miami River
Miamis: captive-taking; Pontiac’s War; Revolutionary War; Ste. Anne’s Church; Wayne and
Michigan militia. See also black militia
Michigan state legislature
Michigan Supreme Court
Michigan Territory; courts; higher education; laws; officials
Michilimackinac. See Fort Michilimackinac
The Middle Ground: Indians, Empires, and Republics in the Great Lakes Region (White)
Middleton, George
midwives
militias
Minnesota
missionaries, Protestant. See Protestant missionaries
Missouri. See also St. Louis
Mitchell, David
Mitchell, Sedrick
mixed-race people; African-Native; Askin family; black code; Hyde views; inherited slavery; Ste. Anne’s Church; in sex slavery; as slaveholders
moccasin-making
Mohawks
Monroe, James
Monteith, John
Montour, Andrew
Montour family
Montreal; Campaus; Dejean and Hamilton; LaForce; maps; slaves; trade; treaties
Moravian missionaries
Morrison, Charles
Moses, Charlotte
municipal incorporation. See incorporation, municipal
municipal ordinances. See ordinances, municipal
Munro, Robert
Muscogees. See Creeks
National Park Service
Native American attacks, fear of. See fear of Indian attacks
Native American captives and captive-taking
Native languages
Native American reservations. See Indian reservations
Native American servants
Native American slaves; African relations; Clark views; fire of 1805; John Askin ownership; John May ownership; Northwest Ordinance; Pontiac’s War; Raudot proclamation; runaways; Ste. Anne’s Church records; sexual service; theft by. See also “Panis” (word)
naval battles
navy, British. See British navy
Navarre, Catherine
Navarre, Robert
Negro Militia. See black militia
Negro Town, Ohio; map
Nelson, Jonathan
Neolin
New England; Elijah Brush roots; Hull roots. See also Massachusetts; New York
New Orleans; War of 1812
newspapers
New York; law model; shopping; slave revolts; War of 1812; Woodward roots. See also Albany, New York; Niagara, New York; Schenectady, New York
Niagara, New York. See also Fort Niagara
Northwestern Army
Northwest Ordinance; Article 6; Denison v. Tucker and; habeas corpus and
Northwest Territory; courts; legislature; indenture; maps; officials; seat
Notes on the State of Virginia (Jefferson)
Ohio; cattle; dispossession of Native lands; runaway slaves; Sibley; statehood; supreme court model; War of 1812
Ojibwes; captives and captive-taking; land cessions; Moravian missionary relations; Pontiac lineage; Pontiac’s War; Revolutionary War; War of 1812; Wayne and
Oneidas
Onuf, Peter
ordinances, municipal
Ottawas; captives and captive-taking; land cessions; Pontiac lineage; Pontiac’s War; Revolutionary War; Ste. Anne’s Church; War of 1812; Wayne and
Panis. See Native American slaves
“Panis” (word)
Paris. See also Treaty of Paris
Parker, Thomas
Parmenter, Jon
Patterson, Charles
Pattinson, Richard
Pawnees
Pennsylvania
Perry, Oliver Hazard
Phillips, Christopher
Phyn and Ellice Company
Pollard, Richard
polygamy
Pontchartrain, Jérome Phélypeaux, Comte de
Pontiac (Ottawa leader)
Pontiac, Michigan
Pontiac’s War
Pooquiboad
Poremba, David Lee
Porteous, John
