Bay County past and present . tween Bay City and Detroit. In the fallof 1843 he went to Detroit for food andwinter supplies for the Saginaw Valley. When he was coming back a stormarose and his ship was blown across Lake Huron and wrecked on the shore ofCanada. For weeks the people looked for Capta:in Wilson and his crew, andfinally all were given up as lost, but it was not so. The ship struck a rockand went to pieces, and the crew was washed ashore. Captain Wilson and hiscrew suffered terribly. They built a log house and a fire to keep from freezingto death. They started to walk to Goderich, w
Bay County past and present . tween Bay City and Detroit. In the fallof 1843 he went to Detroit for food andwinter supplies for the Saginaw Valley. When he was coming back a stormarose and his ship was blown across Lake Huron and wrecked on the shore ofCanada. For weeks the people looked for Capta:in Wilson and his crew, andfinally all were given up as lost, but it was not so. The ship struck a rockand went to pieces, and the crew was washed ashore. Captain Wilson and hiscrew suffered terribly. They built a log house and a fire to keep from freezingto death. They started to walk to Goderich, which was eighty miles away. Inorder to save themselves they each put on four or five pairs of stockings. Whenthey reached Goderich they started for Detroit, where they had been a fewweeks before. W^hen they got there they started for the Saginaw Valley. Youmay be sure that the people were glad to see Captain Wilson and his crew comeback. Captain Wilson died at his old homestead, leaving his wife and 14children.—Kolb inaw Valley Indians were good hunters, and trips could be made bycanoes in all directions; the farmer and land buyer because they be-lieved the land near the mouth of the river would soon become thelocation of a settlement, or because they realized that there would soonbe a great demand for the pine timber standing on the land. SETTLEMENT—PIONEER LIFE. 83 WHERE THE SETTLERS CAME FROM. The government agents, such as Leon Tromble and CaptainMarsac, were usually Frenchmen who had come from Detroit orCanada, and had previously engaged in trading with the Indians, andso could speak the Chippewa language fluently. The fur traders, in-cluding a long list of Trombles, were likewise from Detroit and vicinityor from Canada. The pioneer farmer, the merchant, and the landiDuyer were usually from the eastern part of the United States—a largeproportion from New York. Albert Miller was from Vermont; Crom-v^ell Barney from Massachusetts, and the following were some o
Size: 1418px × 1763px
Photo credit: © The Reading Room / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No
Keywords: ., bookcentury1900, bookdecade1910, bookidbaycountypas, bookyear1918
