Michigan historical collections . e beenfemales, and two of enormous size. Out of the skull of one of the latterfell a huge bullet, which had evidently caused the death of the owner. With these bodies were found many valuable relics, two pipes of fineworkmanship, an old knife, number of silver armlets and bracelets,finely ornamented, two silver rings with gems, a steel tomahawk of fineworkmanship, and two silver crosses. These skeletons are supposed tohave belonged to Tecumsehs band. We can imagine with its primeval forest, high picturesque banksand sheltered ravines, the paradise it must have
Michigan historical collections . e beenfemales, and two of enormous size. Out of the skull of one of the latterfell a huge bullet, which had evidently caused the death of the owner. With these bodies were found many valuable relics, two pipes of fineworkmanship, an old knife, number of silver armlets and bracelets,finely ornamented, two silver rings with gems, a steel tomahawk of fineworkmanship, and two silver crosses. These skeletons are supposed tohave belonged to Tecumsehs band. We can imagine with its primeval forest, high picturesque banksand sheltered ravines, the paradise it must have been for friendly tribesas well as a happy hunting ground. The mainland was infested bymany wild animals which drove the more timid deer to seek refuge onthe island by swimming across the river. Mr. Rucker remembers whena small boy, standing on a bridge crossing a deep ravine near his fath-ers home on the west side of the island and counting eighteen deer ofdifferent sizes browsing on boughs of trees just felled. At another time. JOHN of William and Alexander. Born in Ireland 1717; came to America in 1745. UNVEILING OF TREATY TABLET OF GROSSE ILE. 591 two of his young sisters, Catherine and Eliza, later Mrs. Whitall andMrs. George Truax, seeing a deer swimming across from the mainlandjumped into a canoe with their paddles and corralled the deer until theirbrothers came in from the field and shot it. There is a stone quarry at the foot of the island. For many yearsit was owned by Mr. Thomas Lewis. There were two primitive lime-kilns, one in a ravine on what is now the Ballard farm, another onthe bank in front of what is now the Judge Douglass home. Lime wasshipped by sailboat to Detroit according to contract for the arsenal,which was built on Jefferson avenue. In 1825 the roads running north and south on each side of theisland were surveyed and laid out by Abram Truax and Artemas Hos-mer. There were but two crossroads, running east and west, for manyyears. The upp
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