Responsible Government 28

The Resolutions upon 28

Hon, S. B. Harrison. 29

Kent Election of 1841 30

Colonel Prince 31

Kent — Detroit as the District Town 32

Sir David Wm. Smith and Wm. Macomb first Members 33

Not Generally Known 33

CHAPTER IV.
District of Hesse 35

Kent, Essex and Suffolk 36

Building Court House in Detroit 37

Detroic and Michilmackinac 37

Exodus Act, 1796 37

Courts to be near Buis Blanc Island 37

Last Court of Quarter Session held in Detroit 37

Seat of Courts changed to Sandwich 37

Detroit— Seat of Courts for Hesse 38



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CHAPTEB ▼.
France's Surrender of Canada 39

Klngtford*« Review 38

Treaty of Par :•, 1 763 40

Treaty of Utrecht 41

Newfoundland 41

(General Murray, Ist (Governor General 42

Chief Justice Campbell and Detroit District 44

The Quebec Act, 1774 45

Watson, ICingsford and Read 46-7

CHAPTER VI.
Usurpation — Islands and Indians 53

The v\ est«rn Posts 53

Dr. Ryerson's Statement 53

Professor Goldwin Smith's 54

Se<]uel of the Boston Tea Party 55

Capital Punishment 55

The Islands of the Detroit River 56

Indians 59

CHAITER VII.
Our Constitutional Act, 1791-2, Upper Canada, Newark, York 63

Organization of Government 64

First Legislative Councillors— Chief Justice Osgoode and Messrs. Robertson,

Grant and Russell 64

First Session U. C. Legislature 65

Slavery Abolished 67

First Newspaper, U. C. Gazette or American Oracle. 67

John Brown and his followers 67

Marriage Act 68

CHAI*TER VIII.
