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INCIDENTS IN THE EARLY HISTORY OF THE SAGINAW VALLEY BY JUDGE ALBERT MILLER
The balance of Michigan was occupied by the Pottawattomies and the Lake Superior country was occupied by the Chippewas and Ottawas, while the Menomonies were at the head of Green bay, in Wisconsin, and another tribe west of the Mississippi, which he called the Sioux. The main village of the Socks stood on the west side of Saginaw river, just below the residence formerly occupied by Frank Fitzhugh and opposite the saw mill of N. B. Bradley & Sons.
"The Socks were always at war with their Chippewa neighbors on the north and the Pottawattomies on the south, and also with other nations in Canada, until at last a council was called consisting of Chippewas, Pottawattomies, Ottawas and Six Nations of New York. At an appointed time they all met at the island of Mackinaw, where they fitted out a large army and started in bark canoes, down the west shore of Lake Huron. They then stole along the west shore of Saginaw bay by night and lay concealed during the day, until they arrived at a place about ten miles from the mouth of the Saginaw, a place called Petobegong. Here they landed part of their army, while the rest crossed the bay and landed to the east of the mouth of Saginaw river in the night. In the morning both armies started up the river, one on each side, so as to attack both villages at once. The army on the west side attacked the main village first by surprise and massacred nearly all; the balance retreated across the river to another village which stood near where the court house now stands near the ferry, in Portsmouth.
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