In 1830, and he was appointed as a territorial secretary at 19, which is a record probably that will never be broken. Another record that certainly will never be broken was 1835 when at age 24, he was elected the first states governor. And in time the people of michigan and the people of detroit came to trust him as, even though a young person, a very skilled and dedicated leader. Well, mason was regarded first of all by the people in his own territory as a bit of an interloper, just coming in from kentucky. When the logical thing for jackson to do what it into a point in michigan person, a detroit politician for the number two position in the territory. But because mason had made such an impression on jackson himself, they had met and jackson thought this young man had a lot of confidence in itself and a vision, so that i will appoint him. The strip of land that was dispute between michigan and ohio actually dated back to the northwest ordinance when that ordinance determined that the
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Curators and staff Lloyd Brown, Howard Peckham, and Margaret Webber with four trunks of Thomas Gage papers as they arrived at the William L. Clements Library in 1937. Image courtesy: William L. Clements Library
“Thos. Gage,” a portrait print of Thomas Gage from the 19th century. Available in the University of Michigan William L. Clements Library image bank.
The University of Michigan William L. Clements Library has been awarded a $350,000 grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities to digitize one of their largest and most utilized collections.
The funds will support a three-year-long effort to digitize over 23,000 items related to Thomas Gage, a famed British commander-in-chief in the early days of the American Revolution who was also the governor of the Province of Massachusetts Bay from 1774 to 1775.