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Early Michigan Oliver Williams
That devoted mother, in the fall of 1815, left her home in Concord, leaving an aged mother, and with eight children, the oldest not fourteen years of age, traveled with one four-horse team and covered wagon, and another spring carriage and horses, over to Buffalo, (accompanied by a sister and her daughter, a young lady,) and from Buffalo to Detroit on board a small schooner named the Mink, arriving at Detroit on the 5th day of November, a beautiful Indian summer day, when she met her husband, and we, our father, who had long been anxiously expecting our arrival in great dread of some accident having befallen us, as a violent storm had overtaken and compelled the vessel to take shelter several days in Put-in-Bay at the Islands, where we lay tempest-tossed.
About a mile above Maiden, thousands of wild Indians were then encamped, where they annually gathered to receive valuable presents from the British, in payment for their services during the war then just ended.
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