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General John S. Clarke, of Auburn, N. Y., in correspondence with the present writer, dwells upon the importance of the Kettle Creek portage route in the seventeenth century. He is a recognized authority upon the subject of Indian trade routes.
10 ([Return])
History of Middlesex County, p. 17.
11 ([Return])
"Peter Jones and the Ojebway Indians," p. 113.
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The north shore of Lake Erie appears to have been so little known to the officials, that Kettle Creek and Cat Fish Creek were continually confused and taken as being one or different streams as chance would have it. The Land-board considered that a surrender of the lands west of Kettle Creek gave the Crown all the territory not previously ceded. The Indians at Detroit who made the cession were the Ojibways, Hurons, Ottawas and Pottawatamies.
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This river is what is now known as "Big Creek" and, answers this description at the present day. It enters the lake a little above Fort Rowan.