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A PLOT FOR OBTAINING THE LOWER PENINSULA OF MICHIGAN
embracing thirteen or fourteen of the oldest and best counties in the present State, for the expressed consideration of twenty-five pounds sterling.
We can readily imagine that if their plan had succeeded in Congress they "would have had little difficulty in buying up the Indian claim to the whole peninsula.
It may not be out of place to state that, in spite of their ill success, the four gentlemen named sold their Indian title, just mentioned, in 1797, for two hundred thousand pounds of York currency, amounting to half a million of dollars. Whether the purchaser expected to claim against the treaty of Greenville, we are not informed.
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