Michigan Colonial Records

Ecclesiastical Records

 * [L'Assomption de la Pointe-de-Montreal, Detroit. Registre de la Paroisse, 1761-99 (Otawa: National Archives of Canada, 1967, film 1026603 ff.). Parish registers, 1761-99.
 * Sainte Anne, Detroit. Registre de la Paroisse, 1704-1800 (Ottawa: National Archives of Canada, 1967, film 1026602 ff.). Registers of Fort Ponchartrain, now Detroit, Michigan.
 * Copies of original records are held at the National Archives of Canada in Ottawa, Ontario.


 * 18th Century parish and city maps and Sacramental registers from 1704 at the Archdiocese of Detroit in Detroit, Michigan.
 * Pare, George. The Catholic Church in Detroit, 1701-1888 (Detroit: Gabriel Richard Press, 1951).

Civil Records

 * Records from the U.S. Land office at Detroit contain land grants and claims in the Detroit area, 1707-1825. The French land grants begin in 1707; British grants begin in 1781. These records are in the Bureau of Land Management record group (RG 49.13) at the National Archives in Washington, DC.