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LETTER GIVING SKETCH OF FREDERICK BATES.6
satisfaction of his superiors, for in 1806 or 7, being in Washington to make report of the Land Board, he was pressed into the service for Upper Louisiana and transferred, against his will, from Detroit to St. Louis. In lieu of his Michigan offices of Judge and Land Commissioner, he received here, the offices (deemed equivalent) of Secretary of the Territory and U. S. Reporter of Land Titles.
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