Additional Notes.
The garrison of Michilimakinack, when surprised in 1763, (see page [244],) consisted of the commandant, Major Etherington, two subalterns, and ninety soldiers; and there were four English traders there. Of these Lieutenant Jemette, about seventy soldiers, and one trader, were massacred; but the commandant, Lieutenant Leslie, and the remainder, were preserved by the Ottawas, and restored at the peace in 1764. The English trader, who beheld and described the massacre, was Alexander Henry, whose travels in Canada are cited at page 369.
When peace was concluded at Detroit, by General Bradstreet, with the Indians, in 1764, Pontiac fled to the Illinois; (see pages [164] and [243];) but he appears subsequently to have joined the English, and to have received a handsome pension from them to secure his attachment. Carver, in his "Three Years Travels" in North America, relates that in 1767 Pontiac held a council in the Illinois, in which he spoke against the English, and that in consequence an Indian, who was attached to their cause, plunged a knife into his heart, and laid him dead on the spot.
FOOTNOTES:
[136] The medal is a very large and beautifully executed gold one, made to suspend from the neck. On the obverse is, "Detroit;" on the reverse, the figure of Britannia; and round the rim, "Major-General Sir Isaac Brock." The medal was given only to the principal officers.
[137] This is doubtless the officer whose name is spelt M'Kee, at page [252]; see also page [294].
[138] The present Mrs. De Beauvoir De Lisle.
[139] The present Lieut.-General Sir Andrew Barnard, G.C.B.
[140] Her husband, who distinguished himself in Upper Canada during the war, was then serving on the staff in Lower Canada.