Papers, 1792-1899.

  1. Resources
  2. View Resource

ArchivalResource

Papers, 1792-1899.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/37571823

Correspondence in two volumes and two folders, 1792-1899. Included are: personal correspondence with relatives about his social life and friends in Michigan Territory; official correspondence as judge of Wayne County, Mich.; and business correspondence about land transactions, deliveries of provisions, and petitions to the Legislative Council of Michigan Territory. Most of the correspondence is in French with some abstracts translated into English inserted into the volumes. There is a list of correspondents in Vol. 1. Notable Michigan correspondents include: Peter Audrain, John Francis Hamtramck, Alexander Macomb, Fr. Gabriel Richard, Arthur St. Clair, and William Woodbridge. Materials dated after Navarre's death include: a petition about the borders of Lenawee and Washtenaw Counties, 1829; political broadsides, 1844, 1856, 1899; a deed, 1836; a letter about new roads, 1838; and a 1861 letter about the removal of remains of Kentuckians who died in the Battle of the River Raisin, 1813.

2 v., 2 folders.

Clarke Historical Library

Information

SNAC Resource ID: 7394770

Related Entities

There are 7 Entities related to this resource.

Richard, Gabriel, 1767-1832

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6r21bs5 (person)

French priest and missionary in Detroit, Michigan; also co-founder of the Catholepistemiad (or University of Michigan). From the description of Gabriel Richard papers, 1792-1832. (University of Michigan). WorldCat record id: 34420837 Richard was born at Saintes, France on Oct. 15, 1767. He was well educated and became a priest of the Sulpitians, a society devoted to the care of young men for the sanctuary in 1791. In 1792 he came to Baltimore (Md.), moving to Detroit (Mich.)...

Macomb, Alexander, 1748-1831

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w66t1dp8 (person)

Son of John Gordon and Jane (Gordon) Macomb, born in, July 27, 1748, at Dunturky, Atrium County, Ireland. He spent his youth in Albany, New York., and came to Detroit about 1765 with his brother, William (1751-1796), where they became leading merchants and were fiscal agents fr the British government. In July, 1776, they obtained Grosse Ile from the Native Americans. On May 4, 1773, he married Mary Catherine, daughter of Robert Navarre and Marie Louise (Lootman dit Barrois); they had eleven chil...

Audrain, Peter, 1725-1820.

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6hv28vc (person)

Wayne County, Michigan, prothonotary. From the description of Peter Audrain legal documents, 1802 and 1809-1810. (University of Michigan). WorldCat record id: 34418630 Peter Audrain came to Detroit with the Army under Anthony Wayne; was prothonotary of Wayne County; Judge of Probate, and held other governmental positions. (Springer guide) Born in France, 1725; came to Pennsylvania during the revolution; came to Detroit with army under Anthony Wayne; ...

Woodbridge, William, 1780-1861

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6qv3jhf (person)

Woodbridge was born in Conn. on Aug. 20, 1780. He served in several high Ohio political positions before moving to Michigan. Woodbridge served as Secretary and Acting Governor of the Territory of Michigan, 1812-1828; Collector of Customs at Detroit, 1814- ; Michigan Territory's first delegate in Congress, 1819-1820; Justice of the Territorial Supreme Court, 1828-1832; Delegate from the 1st District (Detroit) to the Constitutional Convention of 1835; Senator from the 1st District, 1838-1839; Gove...

Navarre, Francis, 1763-1826

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6709nc6 (person)

Farmer, judge of Wayne County, Mich., army officer, Lt. Col. of the River Raisin Militia, he left Detroit to found Frenchtown, later Monroe, Mich., in 1780. He married and had 12 children. For further information see the History of Monroe County, Mich. by Bulkley and the Francis Navarre Genealogy in the Pageant of Historic Monroe by Hanley. From the description of Papers, 1792-1899. (Clarke Historical Library). WorldCat record id: 37571823 Born in Detroit, Mich in 1763; boug...

St. Clair, Arthur, 1734-1818

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6183738 (person)

Born in Thurso, Scotland, 1734, o.s. ; studied medicine in Edinburgh; served in the British Army in America, 1757-1762; surveyor of Cumberland, 1770; colonel of Pennsylvania militia, 1775; brigadier general, 1777 to the close of the Revolution; commander of the Army, 1791-1792; delegate to the Constitutional Congress, 1785-1787, and president, 1787; governor of Northwest Territory, 1789-1802; died in Greensburg, Pa., August 31, 1818. (Bio. Cong. Dir., 1928 ed. ; Dic. Am.Biog. --gives b. date, 17...

Hamtrack, John Francis, 1756-1803.

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w67t17z3 (person)