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Title Orders 1778 Oct. 26

Creator De Peyster, Arent Schuyler, 1736-1822

Date 1778

Language French

Place Michigan--Fort Michilimackinac, Michigan--Fort Saint Joseph, Michigan--Mackinaw City, United States

Subjects Potawatomi Indians

Description Signed: At. S. DePeyster.
Official wax seal attached.
For more information, consult the Special Collections Info. File.

Summary Letter of instructions (Oct. 26, 1778) written by Major De Peyster, commandanct at Fort Michilimackinac, to Capt. Langlade and his nephew Lieut. Gautier de Verville. In this document, De Peyster instructs Langlade and Verville to join Henry Hamilton, Lieut. Governor of Detroit, against the rebel sympathizers in the Illinois country. They are also ordered, with the help of De Peyster's interpreter Ainsse, to assemble a force of Potawatomi Indians at Fort Joseph, Michigan.

Biographical/Historical Note Arent Schuyler De Peyster, British army officer, was born in 1736 the son of a prominent New York family. Following duty in the Seven Years' War, De Peyster was appointed in 1774 commandant of Fort Michilimackinac, the only British-garrisoned outpost on the Great Lakes above Detroit during the American Revolution. He served in this capacity until 1779. With the assistance of his interpreter, Joseph-Louis Ainsse, and a former French officer and fur trader, Charles-Michel Mouet de Langlade, De Peyster was able to raise Indian war parties to fight in the British war effort on the western frontier. After the Revolution, De Peyster returned to England and eventually retired to Scotland where he died in 1827.

Extent 1 item (1 folded sheet (4 p.)) ; 35 cm

Format Manuscripts, Orders (Military records), Seals

Archival Collection Title Edward E. Ayer Collection

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Call Number Ayer MS 235

BibID 138440

Projects Tag Digital Collections for the Classroom, Indigenous Chicago Curriculum

Rights Status No Copyright - United States

Contributing Institution Newberry Library

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IIIF Resource Type Manifest

Filename 991384408805867_Ayer_MS_235

Unique Identifier NL11IGYG

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