. Annals of Fort Mackinac . troops,under the command of Major Henry Burbeck, with CaptainAbner Prior and Lieutenants Ebenezer Massay and JohnMichael, arrived and took possession of the post of Michili-mackinac. 1802. In the year 1800 the Connecticut Missionary So-ciety sent Rev. David Bacon (father of the late Rev. Bacon, of New Haven, who was born in Detroit la 40 ANNALS OF FGKT MACKINAC. 1802) as a missionary to our frontier; he arrived at DetroitAugust 11th, 1800, where he was entertained at the house ofthe commandant, Major Thomas Hunt, U. S. A. Mr. Bacon left Detroit, with his
. Annals of Fort Mackinac . troops,under the command of Major Henry Burbeck, with CaptainAbner Prior and Lieutenants Ebenezer Massay and JohnMichael, arrived and took possession of the post of Michili-mackinac. 1802. In the year 1800 the Connecticut Missionary So-ciety sent Rev. David Bacon (father of the late Rev. Bacon, of New Haven, who was born in Detroit la 40 ANNALS OF FGKT MACKINAC. 1802) as a missionary to our frontier; he arrived at DetroitAugust 11th, 1800, where he was entertained at the house ofthe commandant, Major Thomas Hunt, U. S. A. Mr. Bacon left Detroit, with his family, and came toMackinac in June, 1802, where he remained, teaching andpreaching until August, 1804, when he was recalled. Rev. David Bacon was the first Protestant who preachedat Mackinac. 1812. June 18th, war with Great Britain was declared bythe Congress of the United States by a vote of 79 to 40 inthe House, and 19 to 13 in the Senate. June 19tb) war wasformally proclaimed by President Madison, HI61X)BICAL EVENTS. 41. MAJ. WM. WHISTLEB, U. S. A.,Commanding Fort Mackinac, 1833. 42 ANNALS OB FORT MACKINAC. SUREENDER OF FORT MICHILIMACKIJSTAC. Detroit, August 4lh, 1812. Sir—I take the earliest opportunity to acquaiat Your Excellency ofthe surrender of the garrison of Michilimackinac, under my command, tohis Britannic Majestys forces under the command of Captain CharlesRoberts, on the 17th ultimo, the particulars of which are as follows: Onthe 16th, I was informed by the Indian Interpreter that he had discoveredfrom an Indian that the several nations of Indians then at St. Joseph (aBritish garrison, distant about forty miles) Intended to make an imme-diate attack on Michilimackinac. I was inclined, from the coolness I had discovered in some of the prin-cipal chiefs of the Ottawa and Chippewa nations, who had but a few daysbefore professed the greatest friendship for the United States, to placeconfidence in this report. I immediately called a meeting of the American gentlem
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