Note 87 — VOYAGES AND TRAVELS (continued 3)
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The British fort at Mackinac was still upon the south shore of the strait, where Mackinaw City now stands; but the governor, Patrick Sinclair, had already begun the erection of a new fort on the island, to which the establishment moved in the spring of 1781. See “Story of Mackinac,” in Thwaites’s How George Rogers Clark won the Northwest.—Ed.