Note 109 — Evans’s Pedestrious Tour of Four Thousand Miles—1818 (continued 3)

Hog Island, about three miles above Detroit, was so named by the French in the early years of discovery, because of the number of wild swine found thereon. Near this island occurred the defeat of the Fox Indians in 1712. See Wisconsin Historical Collections, xvi, p. 283. This island was purchased by William, father of General Macomb, in 1786.—Ed.