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By IRVING I. KATZ
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Temple Beth El
The 1781 deed executed
HOTEL RES.--RENT A CAR
557 6750
Jewish Trader Early Resident of Mackinac
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therefore, more compe-
tent than Lopez' non-
Jewish agent and that
Lyon would like to re-
commend that Solomons,
a Jew, be given the
agency.
The price for the Island
was 5,000 pounds New
York currency. Among
the Mackinac residents
who signed the deed as a
witness was Benjamin
Lyon.
Lyon was a member of
Lopez disregarded Lyon's
Montreal's
Cong. Shearith
suggestion.
Israel,
founded in 1768. In
In 1778, the residents of
1778,
he
was
one of the sub-
Mackinac circulated a sub-
scription list for a missio- scribers for a Sefer Torah for
the
congregation.
He was
nary priest for the commun-
ity. Benjamin Lyon made a
generous subscription as a
gesture of goodwill.
In 1779, some 25 mer-
chants, representing fur-
at 1141.1menca's 14141444 resort--
trading companies in the
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Upper Penninsula of Michi-
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• ScHNINI MOH peel
gan, formed the Mackinac
• Mil NW sins
Co., a cooperative general
• THIN ram.
• CO I *mac n
n eat
store, one of the first de-
• lullte.'s umultr
partment store operations
• FREE CALF
on the North American con-
UNTIL JULY 1
tinent. Benjamin Lyon was
one of the founders of this
company and served on its
merchandising committee.
SOUTH HAVEN. MICHIGAN 49090
by the Indians to the British
for Mackinac Island con-
tains the signature of Ben-
jamin Lyon, a Jewish trader
on Mackinac.
Lyon probably came from
England to New York about
1750. He was given an
agency by Heyman Levy of
New York, reputedly the
lading Indian trader of his
day, and dealt in military
goods, including camp
equipment and scarlet
broadcloth for uniforms. For
the Indians, he obtained
from Heyman Levy the best
black and white wampum,
hair pipes of conk shell, gor-
diots, broaches, earbobs,
and moons. His trading post
was at Fort William Henry
on Lake George and he op-
erated under the firm name
of Levy, Lyon and Co.
In 1757, the French,
under the leadership of the
After the American
Marquis de Montcalm, and
Revolution, in 1783, the
Mohawk Indians attacked
Mackinac Co. founded
Fort William Henry and
the North West Co. to
succeeded in taking the fort.
compete with the Hudson
The Mohawks plundered
Bay Co.
the fort and massacred the
Lyon was also a partner of
civilians and soldiers. Lyon
the well known trader, John
escaped to nearby Fort Ed-
Askin, and in 1780 the firm
ward on the upper Hudson,
name was known as Askin,
where he told the sad news
Lyon and Bostwick.
of the massacre to his co-
The same year, Lyon
religionist, Manuel
signed the petition by the
Josephson, who was operat-
residents
of Mackinac in
ing his trading post there as
favor of removing Fort
another agent of Heyman
Michilimackinac to Mac-
Levy.
kinac Island. This was
During the conquest of
suggested by Major Patrick
Canada by the British in
Sinclair, the commandant
1759-60, Lyon served as a
of Michilimackinac, who be-
supplyman to the British
lieved that he would be in a
forces, in partnership
better position for defense
with Ezekiel Solomons,
against the attack by Gen-
Levy Solomons, Chap-
eral George Clark's Ameri-
man Abraham and Ger-
can forces, which he feared
shon Levy. After the con-
were coming.
quest of Canada by the
Between 1779 and 1881, a
British, the partners en-
new fort, called Fort Mac-
gaged in the fur trade.
kinac, was built on Mac-
During the great Indian
kinac Island, and old Fort
uprising of 1763, led by
Michilimackinac, origi-
Chief Pontiac, all of Lyon's
nally built by the French in
partners were captured by
1715, was destroyed.
the Indians but managed to
On May 12, 1781, the
gain their freedom. For the
Indians issued a deed to
second time in six years
the British for Mackinac
Lyon eluded an Indian mas-
sacre, at Fort Michilimac-
Island, as part of the for-
kinac, where he was a resi-
mal Treaty of Cession.
dent.
The Pontiac War lasted a
British Aliya
year and the fur trade busi-
Seen Increasing
ness of the partnership was
greatly affected. Lyon and
LONDON (JTA) — More
his partners were forced to
British Jews are settling in
file a petition of ban-
Israel and the trend may
kruptcy.
continue, according to fi-
A satisfactory settlement
gures and other data pub-
was evidently made. The
lished in London.
partnership was dissolved
Last year, 693 people
and each partner continued
from Britain took up tem-
doing business on his own.
porary residence permits in
Lyon remained in Mackinac
Israel, compared with 355
as a fur trader, in competi-
the year before. This was in
tion with his former part-
addition to Britons already
ner, Ezekiel Solomons.
in Israel who took up full
Aaron Lopez, the out-
citizenship last year, bring-
standing
merchant-
ing the overall 1977 total to
shipper of pre-
more than 1,000.
Revolutionary Newport,
According to Hanan
R.I•, had a non-Jewish
Hanniel, director of the
agent in Montreal. Lyon
Jewish Agency's aliya de-
was acquainted with
partment in London, there
Lopez and in 1770 he
has also been a 36 percent
wrote him a letter that
increase in the number of -
Levy Solomons, his
British olim in the first four
former partner, was the
months of 1978 — 218 com-
largest fur trader in
pared with 160 in the same
Canada and that he was,
period last year.
Phone 637 5118 (Area 6161
evidently held in high es-
teem by his co-religionists,
for in 1778, when Shearith
Israel adopted its Code of
Laws, it allowed Lyon, a
non-resident of Montreal,
extra time to affix his signa-
ture.
As late as 1800 Lyon was
still listed as a resident of
Mackinac.
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