History Timeline 1700s

History Timeline 1700s 

By Mike Stailey

1701
French trader Lamothe de Cadillac persuades the Wyandot to migrate from Michilimackinac (present day Mackinac Michigan)
and settle near Fort Pontchartrain (present day Detroit Michigan) to continue trade with the French Jesuit Father Etienne de  Carheil of the Michilimackinac mission tries to persuade the Wyandot to stay but they leave for
Fort Pontchartrain. Jesuits burn their house at the mission and return to Québec, Canada

1701
The Great Peace of Montreal was negotiated between the French Governor of New France (Canada) Louis Hector de Calliere and the Iroquois, Huron, Abenaki, Ottawa, Algonquin, Miami and  Pottawatomi Nations. It was signed August 4, 1701. Kondiaronk, le Rat, of the
Hurons was one of the chief negotiators but he never signed the treaty because he died the night he gave his famous speech.
The 4 main tenets of the treaty were:
1) Agreed not to make war on each other
2) Agreed to recognize the French Governor as mediator in all disputes
3) Agreed that ALL would have free access to the hunting grounds north of Lake Ontario and west of Detroit
4) The Iroquois agreed to remain neutral in any war between the French and the English.

1702
The Wyandot establish villages in the south eastern part of the Michigan territory at Detroit Michigan
1728
Jesuits re-establish mission on south side of Detroit River in Sandwich (present day Windsor Ontario)
Part of the Michigan Wyandot establish a village at Sandwich
1730
More of the Michigan Wyandot migrate and settle on the south shore of Lake Erie in the Ohio Territory
1738
Remainder of Michigan Wyandot in Detroit area move their villages to lower south eastern Michigan and northern Ohio territories
1742
Jesuits transfer Sandwich mission to Bois Blanc Island (present day Bob-Lo Island Ontario) and near Anderdon Ontario
(present day Amherstburg)  Part of the Canadian Wyandot establish villages at Anderdon and across the Detroit river in Michigan territory at Brownstown (present day Gibraltar MI) and Maguagua (present day Wyandotte MI)
1749 – 1753
The French preparing to defend it’s territories from the British invasion look to the Wyandot as an ally
1754 – 1763
French and Indian War with British, with the British being the victors
At the conclusion of the war and to ease tension with the Native Americans, Great Britain declares proclamation no colonists to settle west of the Allegheny mountains (present day Pennsylvania) and requires those already settled in those regions to return east

1775 – 1776
Revolutionary war between Great Britain and American colonies. Declaration of Independence is signed
1781
Jesuit Father Pierre Potier missionary at Assumption (Sandwich Ontario) dies. Jesuit abandon all missions in Ontario with the
Wyandot
1785
Treaty of Fort Mc’Intosh with the United States Government (326k, PDF Format)The Wyandot cede a portion of the Michigan and Ohio territory
The U.S. establishes what part of the Ohio territories to be held by the Wyandot and proclaims non-Native American
settlers in said territory will not be protected by the United States and will be dealt with by the Native Americans as they please
That a Wyandot Chief to be held by the U.S. Government until all prisoners held by the Wyandot are released
to the U.S. Government
1789
Treaty of Fort Harmar with the Unites States Government (947k, PDF Format)
Treaty restates the conditions of the Fort Mc’Intosh treaty but did not address grievances by the Wyandot or other Native Americans
that New Englander colonists were settling on Native American territory given them by the United States
That said territory boundaries granted the Wyandot from the Mc’Intosh Treaty shall remain theirs forever
1790
Treaty number 2 with the British Government (817k, PDF Format)
Large portions of the south western Ontario territory are ceded to the British Government
The British Government grants 2 reserve territories, Sandwich and Anderdon for the Anderdon Wyandot to inhabit for ever
1794
Jay Treaty between the United States and British Government
Article III of the Jay Treaty declared the right of aboriginal peoples (people indigenous to Canada and/or the US) to trade and travel between the United States and Canada
Ontario, Michigan and Ohio Wyandot fearing loss of more land enter into battle (Fallen Timbers in the Ohio Territory – present day Maumee OH) with the United States led by General Anthony Wayne at the direction of President George Washington
1795
Treaty of Greenville with the United States Government (1,166k, PDF Format)
The Wyandot cede a large portion of their Ohio territory granted them from the treaty of Fort Mc’Intosh and Harmar
U.S. mandates all people of the United States are allowed passage by either land or water through territory held by the Wyandot in
Ohio territory .U.S. Government to hold a Wyandot Chief prisoner until Wyandot Nation releases U.S. prisoners captured at Fallen Timbers.