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French in Michigan French Settlements
The management of affairs during the whole French rule was chiefly military. There were in Detroit, and in some other posts, public notaries empowered to transact most of the conveyancing and probate business of the people. There were also some officials having political power during the French possession; but nothing very definite is known about this, and the business could not have been very important.
Socially the French inhabitants were an admirable people. There were many families of gentle blood, and wealth and refinement. AU, both gentle and simple, seem to have possessed a spirit of courtesy and urbanity which greatly endeared them to the Indians, who always preferred them to any other white race. They loved simple pleasures and social enjoyment; kept open house to all comers, and were usually frugal and industrious enough to meet their occasions, .without any anxiety to pursue gain for its own sake. They were not, however, lacking in spirit or enterprise, and the whole country was traversed by their agents, and dotted with their trading houses.
Early Michigan
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