Note 116 — Evans’s Pedestrious Tour of Four Thousand Miles—1818 (continued 3)

The English, upon their surrender of Mackinac in 1796, thinking the Americans might claim St. Joseph Island, hastened to take possession. A stockade was erected and subsequently a blockhouse, but the place was not suited for a military station. In 1815, the buildings were repaired and a garrison established; it was removed, however, to Drummond’s Island the following year. For further information regarding this island, see Michigan Pioneer Collections, xvi, p. 69.—Ed.