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Michigan Chapter Six Cadillac as Feudal Lord
Louis de Ia Porte, Sieur de Louvigny, is mentioned as commanding at Detroit, but this must have been during some temporary absence of de Tonty. He commanded at Michilimackinac from 1690 to 1694, at which post he was succeeded by Cadillac. He came to Detroit in 1703 as an officer of the garrison. At one time he was lieutenant-governor of New France. He was a brother-in-law of Duluth. He was drowned in a shipwreck in 1725. Francois de Belestre is also mentioned as commanding at Detroit, but as in the proceeding case, it must have been a mere temporary matter during one of the numerous absences of de Tonty. He died at Detroit in 1729.
Jean Baptiste de St. Ours, Sieur Deschaillons, was appointed in 1728 to succeed de Tonty. He was born in 1670 and lived in Montreal where all his children
were born. He was an officer of marine and rose to the rank of captain. He had taken part in wars with the Indians and in raids across the New England borders. In 1716 he was sent west with an expedition which was to assemble friendly Indians at Michilimackinac to proceed to Wisconsin and bring the Fox Indians to terms. The expedition was successful and on acount of his services therein Deschaillons was appointed in 1719 commandant at Fort St. Joseph. Here he remained only a year and then returned to Montreal. Although he came to Detroit as commandant in 1728, there is no mention of him in the records of St. Ann's at any subsequent time, from which it is inferred that his stay did not exceed a year.
Louis Henry Deschamps, Sieur de Boishebert, came to Detroit as comandant early in 1730. He was a native of Quebec where he was born in 1679. He entered the army in his youth and served under Vaudreuil in his campaigns against the Iroquois, which resulted in a treaty by which the French were permitted to go to their western posts by way of the lower lakes and Niagara, instead of the Ottawa and Lake Nipissing route.
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