Fox Islands corpus record: afk0709.0001.001.umich.edu, undated

Summary

The audit matched the name Fox Island in a scanned Internet Archive volume, afk0709.0001.001.umich.edu_djvu, which the index carries undated. It kept the body as a local mention because the same body also names Beaver Island and the Manitous, with one other local names. What follows is the indexed context. The page holds more.

Indexed context

in ^mmWm fbf m^%Wd 36 GENERAL OPPRESSION. As winter approached, those who had been most hostile against the Mormons, attempted to get up a crowd to winter on Whiskey Point, prepared for hostiitties with the Mormons. — The proposition frightened off many who would otherwise have stayed, and all who had been committed against the Mormons followed. WRECK OF THE ILLIKOIS. Later in the fall the Propeller Illinois went ashore on Fox Island. The Captain went to Manitou for assistance, and was refused. He then went the Beaver, and asked Mr. Strang to furnish him assistance. He had been unfriend- ly to the Mormons, and several times treated them ill. Yet they turned out in force to save his boat, of which he was half owner. When they arrived there it was so much injured that he determined to abandon it. The Mormons refused to abandon it; saying, they would set their pumps a

Scope and limits

A mention is not an event. Where a held source supports one, a curated article under event/ carries the claim and this record is only its evidence. Deduplication here suppresses byte-identical bodies alone, so a second OCR edition of the same page is still a second record. The name is not unique to Michigan either, which is why the audit tests for a local cue at all. Read the cited source before you cite it.

Added 1 August 2026 · revised 3 August 2026. Recent changes