Fox Islands corpus record: ancientmodernm1885stra, undated

Summary

The audit matched the name Fox Islands in a scanned Internet Archive volume, ancientmodernm1885stra_djvu, which the index carries undated. It kept the body as a local mention because the same body also names Beaver Island and Michigan. What follows is the indexed context. The page holds more.

Indexed context

ettlements of Michili- mackinac. On the main land, from Little Traverse Bay northward some twenty miles, and extending from the lake shore inland eight or nine miles, was a vast region of farms, gardens and villages. Further east, on the head waters of the Cheboygan river, were numerous large tracts of laud cleared and cultivated. Four of the largest in the Beaver group and both the Fox Islands were cultivated to a great extent, and sustained a numerous popula- tion. These people were all converted Indians. They had abandoned both the religion and the government which prevailed among them before the Jesuites visited them. The Jesuites exercised the sole power in civil matters, as well as religious. When the place was furnished witb a garrison of French soldiers, the commandant

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