And how little in comparison is said or written of the hardships endured and the heroism displayed by the mothers.

In the early colonial days the women endured equal trials with the men.

It is possible that if the lives of the early settlers and the scenes of those times were in full laid before us for review, we would find many instances in which women displayed even greater courage than the men, and in enduring the most severe privations and dangers, held out even longer.
Had Captain Godfrey not been possessed with such a companion as his wife, it seems almost certain he would have been made a prisoner and, perhaps, been murdered.

Her tact and perseverance in danger secured his liberty and rescued him from death.
When her friends in London tried hard to persuade her from accompanying her husband on his second venture in the colony, she calmly replied: "Where my husband goes I can follow, if it be in the wilderness among savages, or even through fire and blood.

I love my husband, and wherever he may be, to that spot I am attracted more strongly than to any other." How much these brave words sound like those of Madame Cadillac, spoken three quarters of a century earlier.
On the 24th of July, 1701, Cadillac landed at Detroit, and set himself to found the place.