Note 4 — Front matter

(page page 6).—Rev. William Montague Ferry organized the Presbyterian church at Mackinac in 1822; it later developed into a mission school. After suffering many trials and disappointments he was released from service August 6, 1834, at once settling at Grand Haven, Mich., his being the first white family at that place. He died December 30, 1867. Williams’s The Old Mission Church of Mackinac Island (Detroit, 1895) gives a history of this enterprise.