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 1805-05-23 DETROIT INDIANA TERRITORY---#MANUSCRIPT RED CANCEL & RED MS FREE F BATES P.M.-----TO FR. BATES AT PITTSBURGH, P.A.-----FROM FREDERICK BATES AT DETROIT-----CONCERNING THE POLITICS TAKING PLACE WHEN MICHIGAN TERRITORY WAS CREATED. GOV. WILLIAM HULL ARRIVED JULY 1, 1805 IN COMPANY WITH SECRETARY GRISWOLD. JUDGE WOODWARD HAD ARRIVED ON THE PREVIOUS DAY. JUDGE BATES WAS ALREADY IN RESIDENCE. HULL HAD PREVIOUSLY TAKEN HIS OATH OF OFFICE BEFORE THE VICE PRESIDENT AND ON JULY 1, 1805 HE ADMINISTERED THE OATH TO THE TWO JUDGES AND THE TERRITORY SECRETARY. MICHIGAN TERRITORY FORMALLY CAME INTO EXISTENCE ON JULY 1, 1805. FOLLOWING A STATEMENT REGARDING MR JEFFERSON, BATES WRITES---BUT HULL LIVES ON A PARALLEL OF LATITUDE------MENTIONS HENRY BALDWIN, WILKINSON, DODERMEED, ERNEST---GENEALOGY 5---3 PGS----COURTESY OF EBACH- WHITFORD AUCTION 2003 LOT 55 $3500 - N Date: 1805-05-23 , Associated Pages:()