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Detroit, Michigan Territory
Summary
Port city located between west end of Lake Erie and Lake St. Clair. State capital and county seat. French first visited site, ca. 1610, and established settlement and fort, by 1701. Britain obtained possession, 1760. Became part of U.S. territory, 1783. First incorporated as town, 1802. First incorporated as city, 1806, but incorporation later repealed; new city charter enacted, 1815. Heavily engaged in lake trade and shipbuilding. Area experienced cholera epidemics, 1832 and 1834, and destructive fire, 1837. Population in 1810 about 800; in 1830 about 2,200; and in 1838 about 9,300. Latter-day Saint missionaries first visited city, June 1831. JS and others visited city, 1834, and preached in area for about two weeks. Orson Pratt and Parley P. Pratt preached in Detroit, Oct. 1839; Parley P. Pratt estimated there to be about fifty church members in area.
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papers
- History, 1838–1856, volume A-1 [23 December 1805–30 August 1834]
- History Draft [6 August 1838–30 December 1839]
- History, 1838–1856, volume C-1 [2 November 1838–31 July 1842]
- Book of Commandments, 1833
- Doctrine and Covenants, 1835
- Doctrine and Covenants, 1844
- History Draft [21 June–8 August 1844]
- History, 1838–1856, volume E-1 [1 July 1843–30 April 1844]
- History, 1838–1856, volume F-1 [1 May 1844–8 August 1844]
- Introduction to G. Patterson and J. Patterson v. Cahoon, Carter & Co. and Rigdon, Smith & Cowdery
- Letter from Lewis Cass, 9 December 1843
- Letter from Mephibosheth Sirrine, 25 May 1842
- Letter from Moses Martin, 7 November 1841
- Letter from Parley P. Pratt, 22 November 1839
- Letter to Emma Smith, 4 November 1838
- Letter to Lyman Wight and Others, 16 August 1834
- Letter to William W. Phelps, 31 July 1832
- Letterbook 1
- Lucy Mack Smith, History, 1844–1845
- Lucy Mack Smith, History, 1845
- Parley P. Pratt, History of the Late Persecution, 1839
- Revelation Book 1
- Revelation, 13 August 1831 [D&C 62]
- Revelation, 6 June 1831 [D&C 52]
- Revelation, 6 June 1831, Symonds Rider Copy [D&C 52]
- “A History, of the Persecution, of the Church of Jesus Christ, of Latter Day Saints in Missouri,” December 1839–October 1840
- County
- Wayne County
- State/Province
- Michigan Territory (now state)
- Country:
- United States of America