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Michigan's Detroit era and Le Blanc confession recounted
Detroit's past told in a long reminiscence of settlement, mining, and trade as Michigan grows from wilderness to a prosperous district. A grim confession from Le Blanc documents a brutal murder spree in Morris County Gaol connected to a New York escape and crimes against the Sayre family. A shipwreck tale of the Hibernia follows, describing a tragic 1833 blaze, mass loss, and harrowing sea survival near Pernambuco.
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Hull
Detroit
United States
Michigan
Ohio
Cleveland
Cuyahoga county
Mansfield
Richland county
Maumee
Lower
Sandusky
Union
New York
Liverpool
Upper Canada
Upper Huron
Clinton
Pontiac
etroit
lake Michigan
Detroit Journal
LE BLANC
New Jersey
Chateau Salin
Meurthe
N. S. department
Germany
Marie
France
Bouse
America
Morhange
Paris
Havre
new world
Fousier
Fallon-street
Feusier
Sayre
Mr Sayre
Mary
Joe
Thad
Mrs. Sayre
Phebe
Mr. S
Mr S’s
Maine
Morris Co. Gaol
Bell
Hibernia
Van Dieman’s Land
James Easby
mill-wright
Richmond
Yorkshire
cande
Sibernia
Pernambuco
Wibernia
lear