A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z

A

ADAMS, Private Henry, 24

ASKIN, John, 47

B

BALFOUR, Captain Henry, 5-6

Barracks, 35, 38

Barracks, Officers’, 25, 43

BAXTER, Alexander, 36

Billiard room, 26

Black hole, 24

British Museum, 48

BROWNE, Captain John, 36

BURGY, Christian, 15-17, 23

BURRENT, John, 18

BURTON, Clarence, 6

Burton Historical Collection, 6

C

CARDIN, Mr.’s house, Morison stays at, 43-44

Carioling, 30

CARLILE, Mrs. Thomas,

discovered with Johnson, 23;

lives with Johnson, 25-26, 37;

returns to husband, 29-31

CARLILE, Sergeant Thomas,

discovers Johnson with his wife, 23;

seeks redress against Johnson, 24, 26;

court-martialed, 29-32, 37;

attacked by Johnson, 37

Children, 35, 37, 44

CHINN, John, 11;

assaults Morison, 13-18, 21, 22, 23

Chippewa Indians, 6

CHRISTIE, Lieutenant John, 12, 16;

presides over Carlile’s court-martial, 30;

challenged by Johnson, 36, 43, 46-47

Church, soldiers worship, 23, 24

COLEMAN, Private James, receives 1000 lashes, 37-38

Commissary, 27

Courts-martial, 30-31, 36

D

DESERTION, 37

Dogs, attacked by Johnson, 24

Drinking at Michilimackinac, 12-14, 21, 44

Duel, Johnson challenges Pond to, 38

F

FARROL, Mr., 36

FIDDLER, Mr., member of Royal Artillery, 44

Flogging, 26, 33, 37-38

FORBES, John, servant to Morison,

defends Morison, 14-18, 21;

struck by Johnson, 24;

takes return to Turnbull, 42

FRASOR, Lieut. Colonel, 48

FROBISHER, Benjamin, 8, 18, 36

Furnishings, 45

G

GLADWIN, 36

GLAZIER, Captain Beamsley, 16, 36, 46

GRAHAM, Ensign, 43, 45

GRANT, Lieutenant Allan, 18

Guard Duty, 23, 38, 44

Guard House, 22, 24, 25, 31, 38, 44

H

HALDIMAND, General Frederick, 48

HARISE, Mr., interpreter, 27, 44

Horse racing, 35

Horses, 30, 35

Houses at Michilimackinac, 43-45

J

JOHNSON, Ensign Robert, 8, 11-12;

assaults Morison, 13-18, 21-27;

assaults Private Walker, 22-23;

with Carlile’s wife, 23-24;

attacks dog, 24;

lives with Mrs. Carlile, 25-26;

trades rum, 26, 35;

orders Carlile court-martialed, 29-32;

illicit relationships, 35;

judges horse race, 35;

catalog of misdeeds, 36-37;

fights with Pond, 38-39

JOHNSTONE, Corporal, 36

K

KNIGHT, Private, flogged, 26, 36

L

LANGLADE, Charles, 5

LEWIS, Sergeant, 44

LOUDON, Lord, Highland Regiment, 48

M

McALPIN, Lieutenant Donald, 42

McBEATH, George, 8, 21, 26, 37

McBEATH, Mrs. George, complains about Johnson, 25, 37

McGANN, Sergeant, 31

McGILL, James, 11

McLEAN, Private, 26

MacMURRAY, Sergeant Thomas, 12, 15, 18, 21;

struck by Johnson, 24, 26, 31-32, 47

McPHERSON, Sergeant, 21-22;

struck by Johnson, 24

MAIN, George, 13, 16, 21, 25, 26

MAXWELL, William, post commissary, 12, 15-18, 21;

tries to stop attack against William Morison, 26-27;

quarrels with Johnson, 27, 37

MAY, Sergeant, struck by Johnson, 24-25

Medical treatment, 21-22, 22-23, 37-38

MITCHELL, David, 47

MORISON, Charles, 16, 21

MORISON, Daniel, 6-9, 11-12;

house broken into, 12-18;

treats McPherson, 21-22;

sees Todd, 22;

refuses invitation to Burgy’s house, 23;

Johnson abuses, 36;

intervenes in flogging, 37-38;

to visit sick in barracks, 38;

ill with rheumatism, 42;

disputes with Turnbull over quarters, 42-43;

journal ends, 46;

petition and biographical data, 48

MORISON, William, 19, 25;

beaten by Johnson, 26-27, 37

MURRAY, General, 48

N

NORDBERG, Lieutenant John, 16

North West Company, 11

O

OAKS, Forrest, 11;

assaults Morison, 12-18, 21, 22

OLDHAM, Mrs., 35, 37

P

Parade, 24, 37, 45

POND, Phineas, 33;

fights with Johnson, 38-39

Prostitution, 36

Punishment, 26, 33, 37-38

Q

QUEBEC, 48

R

RACING, 35

ROGERS, Elizabeth, 33, 36

ROGERS, Major Robert, 12, 33, 36

ROGERS, Private, 26

Rogers’ Rangers, 5

Roll call, 42

ROSS, Arthur, 18, servant to Robert Johnson, 26, 35

Royal American Regiment, see Sixtieth Regiment of Foot

Royal Artillery, 44

Rum trading,

by Johnson, 26, 35, 36, 39;

by Turnbull, 36, 42, 44;

suspicion of smuggling, 44

S

SAVAGE, Mrs. John, 25

SAVAGE, Private John, Johnson puts in guard house, 25

Scotland, 48

Servants,

John Forbes, servant to Daniel Morison, 14-18, 21-23, 24, 42;

Arthur Ross servant to Robert Johnson, 26, 35

Seventy-Eighth Regiment of Foot, 48

Sixtieth Regiment of Foot, 6, 12, 48

SOLOMON, Ezekiel, 39

SPIECMACHER, Captain Frederick, 36

Spruce beer, 23

STRICKLAND, Ensign John, 13, 16, 17;

orders Carlile confined, 30;

races horse, 35, 43;

arrested, 44-45

Surgeon’s mate, 6, 9, 48

Sutlers house, 35-36, 42

T

TAILOR at Michilimackinac, 25

Thirty-Fifth Regiment of Foot, 48

TODD, Isaac, 8, 11, 12;

defends Morison, 13-18, 22

Traders at the fort,

Benjamin Frobisher, 8, 18, 36;

George McBeath, 8, 21, 26, 37;

Isaac Todd, 8, 11, 12, 13-18, 22;

John Chinn, 11, 13-18, 21, 22, 23;

Forest Oaks, 11, 12-18, 21, 22;

Henry Williams, 21;

Phineas Pond, 33, 38-39;

Ezekiel Solomon, 39;

John Askin, 47

TURNBULL, Captain George, 8;

witnesses assault, 22-23;

Carlile appeals to, 24, 26;

dines with Johnson and Mrs. Carlile, 26;

witnesses Johnson attack William Morison, 26-27;

approves judgment against Carlile, 30;

erases judgment against Carlile, 31;

observes flogging and beatings, 36-37;

arrests Johnson, 37;

allows James Coleman to recuperate before receiving rest of punishment, 37-38;

benefits from trade, 39;

severely

An innocent evening’s entertainment ends in a wild brawl and an attempted murder ...

A judge arrives late to a horse race because he has been busy smuggling rum ...

The court-martial of a sergeant charged with being disrespectful to an officer who was cavorting with the sergeant’s own wife ...

These are a few of the strange but always fascinating events related by Dr. Daniel Morison in the journal he kept from 1769 to 1772 while he was surgeon’s mate at Fort Michilimackinac.

Editing and interpreting this authentic and uncensored 18th-century document, never before published in its entirety, is Dr. George S. May, former research archivist of the Michigan Historical Commission. Illustrating the text is the well-known artist, Dirk Gringhuis.

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