This Bibliography previously appeared in Michigan’s Habitant Heritage, Vol. 34, #2, April 2013
In connection to Part I of the Transcription of the October 1762 Census cited below
Pontiac’s Uprising – A Bibliography Focused on the Detroit Area
Diane Wolford Sheppard, FCHSM Member
Readers who are interested in the role that their ancestors played during Pontiac’s uprising
should consult the books or sites marked by an asterisk, especially Navarre’s Journal, Hay’s
Diary, and The Gladwin Manuscripts.
Dixon, David, Never Come to Peace Again – Pontiac’s Uprising and the Fate of the British
Empire in North America (Norman, Oklahoma: University of Oklahoma Press, 2005).
Dowd, Gregory, War under Heaven – Pontiac, The Indian Nations & The British Empire
(Baltimore, Maryland: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2002).
*Gladwin, Henry, and Charles Moore, editor, The Gladwin Manuscripts (Lansing, Michigan:
Robert Smith Printing Co., 1897). [This volume is also part of Michigan Pioneer and
Historical Society, Historical Collections, Vol. XXVII].
*Hay, Jehu, and Franklin B. Hough, editor, Diary of the Siege of Detroit (Albany, N.Y.: J.
Munsell, 1860).
*Navarre, Robert, and M. Agnes Burton, editor, Journal of Pontiac’s Conspiracy 1763 (Detroit,
Michigan: Clarence Monroe Burton under the auspices of the Michigan Society of Colonial
Wars, 1912). [This edition contains a French transcription of the French handwritten text of
the Journal with an English translation of the Journal].
*Peckham, Howard H., Pontiac and the Indian Uprising (Chicago, Illinois: The University of
Chicago Press, First Phoenix Edition, 1961).
Rogers, Major Robert, and Franklin B. Hough, editor, Narrative of the Principal Events of the
Siege (Albany, N.Y.: J. Munsell, 1860). [Rogers did not arrive in Detroit until 29 July 1663;
therefore, the information in most of his narrative came from other sources].
*The Ohio Valley-Great Lakes Ethnohistory Archives: The Miami Collection
(http://gbl.indiana.edu/ethnohistory/archives/menu.html). [This collection contains excerpts
from many primary documents organized chronologically].
*Trowbridge, Charles, editor and transcriber, Michigan Pioneer and Historical Society,
Historical Collections “The Conspiracy of Pontiac – Accounts of Eyewitnesses” (Lansing,
Michigan: Wynkoop Hallenbeck Crawford, Co., second edition, 1907), 340-364 [These
accounts were recorded by Trowbridge in 1824; therefore, they are not as reliable as Navarre,
Hay or the Gladwin Manuscripts].
Articles in Michigan’s Habitant Heritage
The October 1762 Census of Detroit: This census provides the most complete primary record
of those who lived in or owned property in the Detroit River Region. See the April, July, and
October 2013 issues of Michigan's Habitant Heritage for a heavily annotated transcription of the
October 1762 census of both sides of the Detroit River. In addition to translating and
transcribing the information enumerated in the census, the annotations to this census provide 1)
dozens of corrections to Donna Valley Russell's transcription of the census; 2) birth or baptismal
information regarding both spouses and their marriage information with sources for the
information (including numerous corrections to Denissen) and 3) occupational and other
information regarding the family from the original parish records.
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