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A PETITION TO THE GOVERNOR AND JUDGES OF THE TERRITORY OF
MICHIGAN. 2
land commonly called and known by the name of the Commons of Detroit, situate between a farm belonging to the heirs of the late William Macomb at the south-west, and that of Elijah Brush at the north-east, extending eighty arpents, or French acres, in depth along the Detroit River.
At a time so distant from the first establishment of this country, as to-day, is cannot be supposed that its first settlers be alive, but according to the course of nature they must either be known or it is to be presumed that they are dead; the
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