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Notes on Charles Jouett’s Report on Detroit, 17 February 1804

Notes on Charles Jouett’s Report on Detroit

[ca. 17 Feb. 1804]

Jouett’s report of 1803. respecting the settlements at Detroit.

Otter creek 24. farms & families
River Raison 121.
Sandy creek 16.
Rocky river 2.
River Huron 1.
Ecorce or Bark river 16.
river Rouge 43.
to Detroit 23.
Detroit. 4. as.
Gros-isle 10.
to Gros Point 60.
to Milk river 24.
to river Huron 30.
river Huron 34.
 
to Sinclair river 2 
Sinclair river { 12 
 20 
438

MS (DLC: TJ Papers, 137:23713); undated, but see below; entirely in TJ’s hand, including endorsement: “Detroit.”

jouett’s report: although TJ dated his message to Congress on the subject of Charles Jouett’s report 16 Feb., he received the report from Dearborn on the 17th; see TJ to the Senate and the House of Representatives, 16 Feb. 1804.

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    “Notes on Charles Jouett’s Report on Detroit, 17 February 1804,” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Jefferson/01-42-02-0430. [Original source: The Papers of Thomas Jefferson, vol. 42, 16 November 1803–10 March 1804, ed. James P. McClure. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2016, pp. 496–497.]