226, and _The Cincinnati Daily Gazette_, Sept.

14, 1841.] [Footnote 45: _Niles Register_, XXX, 416.] [Footnote 46: _Niles Register_, XXX, 416; _African Repository_, III, p.

25.] [Footnote 47: Farmer, _History of Detroit and Michigan_, I, chap.
48.] [Footnote 48: There was the usual effort to have slavery legalized in Michigan.

At the time of the fire in 1805 there were six colored men and nine colored women in the town of Detroit.

In 1807 there were so many of them that Governor Hull organized a company of colored militia.