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Early Michigan Oliver Williams
Upon returning from Chicago, a few days after the capitulation of Mackinaw, without information of that occurrence, he was captured, made a prisoner of war, and his vessel condemned as a lawful prize of war by the British in consequence of such charter, cargo and troops. This vessel's name was then changed by the English and called Sloop Little Belt, and mounted with three guns. j It was recaptured by Commodore Perry and fleet at the battle of Lake Erie, in 1813, and was burned at Buffalo the next winter. My
father was paroled and sent to Detroit in a cartel, was present at Hull's surrender and after Winchester's defeat, sent east through Canada in the winter with most of the business men of Detroit, before the arrival of Gen. Harrison's army. After Winchester's defeat many prisoners were brought by the Indians to Detroit, to be ransomed by the whites, some badly wounded.
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