At 08:34 PM 6/30/03 -0600, mlsackett@team-national.com wrote: >This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. > >Surnames: SACKETT, CONANT >Classification: Query > >Message Board URL: > >http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/UGB.2ACI/1789 > >Message Board Post: > >In Leander Sackett's obit, it states that he, "with Mr. Vantosole, >established an Indian Mission, some 30 miles above Toledo. Here he >remained until 1829, when the Station was abandoned, the Indians having >been removed farther west." Leander and his second wife, Eliza Conant >Sackett are buried at the Sackett/King cemetery on M-50 west of >Monroe. I'm wondering if anyone knows where this Indian Mission was located. I presume that "above Toledo" means upstream from Toledo. 30 miles above would take one to Grand Rapids or a little further. There was an Ottawa village there, and a trading post, according to a map in Helen Hornbeck Tanner's "Atlas of Great Lakes Indian History" that shows the location Indian villages in the period around 1830. Her map doesn't show a mission at that location, though. A well-known mission (shown on the map) was at Niles, MI in the early 1820s. It was a Baptist Mission funded in part by the U.S. government. That missionary had gone to Kansas by 1830, though I don't think any (or many) of the native peoples had gone with him. One of this missionary's sub-missionaries stayed in Michigan to work with the Ottawa people, and was located at Grand Rapids MI (not Grand Rapids OH) in 1830. A few other missionaries independent of this group came in the 1830s, if I remember right, but not before that. "Removal" of the Potawatomi people in southern Michigan took place mostly in 1840. In northern Indiana it was a couple of years earlier than that. I'm not so familiar with what happened in northwest Ohio, but probably have notes about it somewhere. I think there were other government-sponsored missionaries in northwest Ohio, but it seems to me that most of that activity was before the War of 1812. But I haven't paid such close attention to that area. If you find out about this mission, I'd be interested in knowing more about it. Do you have any idea where that middle name "Conant" came from? I've run across it elsewhere in southeast Michigan for that time period, as a middle name. Was it just a commonly used name at the time? John Gorentz