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Title: Collections - State Historical Society of Wisconsin
Year: 1854 (1850s)
Authors: State Historical Society of Wisconsin cn
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Publisher: Madison, Wis. State Historical Society of Wisconsin
Contributing Library: Allen County Public Library Genealogy Center
Digitizing Sponsor: Allen County Public Library Genealogy Center

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he Government, and fulfilling the duties of this ad-vice to the Commander-General of the interior provinces, sothat, so far as he is concerned, he take the measures which heconsiders litling to check the claiuh>siiiie tnide ot Phelipe No-land.^ May God presence Your Excellency many years. NuEVA Oklkans, October lUth, 1800. His Excellency Don Mariano Luis de Urquijo. »* Philip Nolan was a Keutuckian who for some years had beentrading in Spanish territory, chiefly in horses. He seems to have insome way been connected with Willcinson, and acting for him. In theautumn of 1800 he left Natchez with a party of about twenty Americana,to catch wild horses in Texas. On the Brazos River he was attackedand killed by Spanish soldiery. His companions lingered for manyyears in Spanish prisons, where Pike met some of them; see MississippiHistorical Society Publications, iv, pp. 281-287. Whether this waareally a filibustering or a commer^ial expedition, has never been cer-tainly proved.—Ed. (46S
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The Mackinac Register 1725-1821: REGISTER pF MARRIAGES IN THE PARISH OP MICH-ILIMACKINAC (Translation from a copy of the original in possession of the parishchurch of Ste. Anne at Mackinac.)-*s List. 2 Aifgiist 1725 pieiTe 0 August 1725 jean cauchois ........ 7 January 1726 gabriel 30 October 1729 antoine . 13 September 1731 mr. Angus 96 The old register at Mackinac is still preserved in the parish churchof the island. It consists of one large volume, with the records of mar-riages entered at one end, and those of baptisms at the other. Therecord of interments is meagre. Thib volume extends in time from.1741-1821, and we here publish the portion comprising the marriages.That for the baptisms and interments will be given in the succeedingvolume of our Collections. We are indebted to the Hon. Edward Os-good Brown of Chicago for an admirable transcription of this interest-ing document, which we follow in the present publication. In March,.1889, Judge Brown read a paper before the Chicago

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