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For 1906, pp 157, 158; Shortt & Doughty, Constl.

Docs, 651.

It should be remembered that while the treaty between the Mother Country and the United States of 1 783, gave the latter all the territory on the right shore of the Great Lakes and connecting rivers, Britain continued to hold Michillimackinac and Detroit with an indefinite amount of the territory given by treaty to the United States (now part of the States of Michigan andWisconsin) together with other territory further east until 1796, because the Republic had not carried out its bargain in other respects At length, by "Jays Treaty" of 1794, the disputes were arranged and in 1796 the territory was given up so that in fact, Detroit was part of Upper Canada until 1796.

"William Dummer Powell, born in Boston, Mass, in 1755, was educated there, in England, and on the Continent.

He took part in the siege of Boston on the Loyalist side, but afterward went to England, and studied in the Middle Temple.