St. Clair County, Michigan, Its History and Its People: A Narrative Account of Its Historical Progress and Its Principal Interests, Volume 1 |
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... LAND TITLES THE IROQUOIS TITLE - QUEBEC - COLONIAL CLAIMS - INDIAN TREATIES AF- FECTING THE COUNTY - REPORTS OF INDIAN AGENT JOUETT AND JUDGE WOODWARD - CONGRESSIONAL REGULATION OF TITLES - LAND CLAIMS IN THE COUNTY - LANDS IN ST ...
... LAND TITLES THE IROQUOIS TITLE - QUEBEC - COLONIAL CLAIMS - INDIAN TREATIES AF- FECTING THE COUNTY - REPORTS OF INDIAN AGENT JOUETT AND JUDGE WOODWARD - CONGRESSIONAL REGULATION OF TITLES - LAND CLAIMS IN THE COUNTY - LANDS IN ST ...
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... land claims in the county , 70 ; British grant , 79 ; survey into townships , 80 ; public and school lands , 80 ; railroad lands , 82 ; Indian reservation lands , 83 ; swamp lands , 83 ; St. Clair flats , 84 . Langell , George , 261 ...
... land claims in the county , 70 ; British grant , 79 ; survey into townships , 80 ; public and school lands , 80 ; railroad lands , 82 ; Indian reservation lands , 83 ; swamp lands , 83 ; St. Clair flats , 84 . Langell , George , 261 ...
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... land titles was unsettled for several years after the Americans came into possession in 1796. Efforts were slowly made by congress to provide a method by which people who had gone into actual occupation of land might obtain title to it ...
... land titles was unsettled for several years after the Americans came into possession in 1796. Efforts were slowly made by congress to provide a method by which people who had gone into actual occupation of land might obtain title to it ...
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... land in the southeastern part of the territory became public land , subject to survey and sale , the treaty line itself was not surveyed until 1815 , and in that year Edward Tiffin , the surveyor general of the United States , reported ...
... land in the southeastern part of the territory became public land , subject to survey and sale , the treaty line itself was not surveyed until 1815 , and in that year Edward Tiffin , the surveyor general of the United States , reported ...
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... land within its boundaries under the absolute juris- diction of the United States , was a strip six miles in width along the Detroit river , and a small area at the Straits of Mackinaw . In order to enable settlements to be made and ...
... land within its boundaries under the absolute juris- diction of the United States , was a strip six miles in width along the Detroit river , and a small area at the Straits of Mackinaw . In order to enable settlements to be made and ...
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33rd Inf acres Algonac Andrew Westbrook appointed April became Belle river Black river building built Bunce Captain Charles church Clair county Clair river commissioners Company G Corporal Cottrell Cottrellville county seat court creek Deserted Detroit Died east Eighth Cavalry Enlisted in Battery Enlisted in Company father feet Fifteenth Infantry Fifth Infantry Fort Gratiot Fourth Infantry French Fulton George governor Gratiot H reorganized Harsen Henry Indians James John Joseph Judge July June Lake Huron Lake St land Macomb county March Marine City Michigan mill organized Palmer pany E pany H Pine river plat Port Huron railroad Removed resident road Samuel Samuel Ward Schooner Second Cavalry second lieutenant Sept Sergeant Sixth Cavalry Smith society Steamer supervisors Tenth Infantry territory Third Infantry Thomas tons township Twenty-second Infantry Twenty-seventh Infantry Veteran village Ward Wesbrook William
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Page 18 - Cataraquy ; thence along the middle of said river into Lake Ontario, through the middle of said lake until it strikes the communication by water between that lake and Lake Erie ; thence along the middle of said communication into Lake Erie, through the middle of said lake until it arrives at the water communication between that lake and Lake Huron ; thence along the middle of said water communication into the Lake Huron ; thence through the middle of said lake to the water communication between that...
Page 82 - ... every alternate section of land, designated by odd numbers, for six sections in width on each side of said roads.
Page 353 - Any corporation, society, order or voluntary association, without capital stock, organized and carried on solely for the mutual benefit of its members and their beneficiaries, and not for profit...
Page 62 - TO HAVE AND TO HOLD the said tract of land and all and singular other the premises hereby granted and released and every part and parcel thereof with their and every of their appurtenances...
Page 17 - In testimony whereof I have caused these letters to be made patent, and the seal of The United States to be hereunto affixed.
Page 64 - America, and to their successors and assigns for ever, all that part of America, lying and being in breadth, from forty degrees of northerly latitude from the equinoctial line, to forty-eight degrees of the said northerly latitude inclusively, and in length, of and within all the breadth aforesaid, throughout the main lands from sea to sea...
Page 64 - Name of the Council Established at Plymouth in the County of Devon, for the Planting, Ruling, Ordering and Governing of New England in America...
Page 63 - Florida, do presume, upon any pretence whatever, to grant warrants of survey, or pass any patents for lands beyond the bounds of their respective governments, as described in their commissions...
Page 19 - Clair ; thence through the middle of said lake, in a direction to enter that mouth or channel of the river St. Clair, which is usually denominated the Old Ship Channel...
Page 63 - Part thereof by from or under him them or any of them Shall and will WARRANT and for Ever Defend by these Presents. IN WITNESS Whereof the said Parties to these Presents have hereunto interchangeably set their Hands and Seals Dated the Day and Year first above Written.