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South Fox Island

settlement #482568
created 2015-08-27 by daniel m. kelty
official name: South Fox Island?   
assertion #3733561 by daniel m. kelty on 2015-08-27: confidence 0%.
is a(n): village?   
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started: 1851   
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ended: 1856   
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description: Samuel Chambers was an African-American, a former Virginia slave who converted to the church in Mississippi down river from Nauvoo in 1844. This is probably the same Samuel Chambers who served as commissioner of highways, justice of the peace, and sheriff, in Charlevoix Township and Emmet County, Michigan. He was an active supporter of James Strang, 1851-1855, who was settled as part of the new Mormon settlement on South Fox Island, Lake Michigan. Evidently related to Thomas Chambers, who was superintendent of the poor in Michilimackinac County, Michigan, 1851.WRECK OF THE ILLINOIS. The settlers on Fox Island, who were an equal number of Mormons and Gentiles, took the job of saving the cargo ON SHARES, and built a storehouse for the sole purpose of housing it; and put it up in the best possible order, and waited the Captain's arrival in the spring to divide it. This was at the back side of the Island, distant from, and out of sight of their dwellings. In the spring he came with the Illinois in the night and commenced moving the cargo without consulting them. They accidentally discovered him in time to save part of their [Page 36] share. Yet he went off calling the Mormons robbers, and accusing them of plundering him, and has never shown them the slightest gratitude. Of the Gentiles who were equally concerned, he made no mention. ?   
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religion: Strang   
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location: 45°24'49"N, 85°50'41"W   
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located at: Leelanau County, Michigan, United States   
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see also: history of strangite locations   
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