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A PLOT FOR OBTAINING THE LOWER PENINSULA OF MICHIGAN
Note II. —To understand the important bearing of the conspiracy in a national point of view, it may be well to notice the condition in which its success would have left the frontier. Many of the names appended to the notice of election will be recognized in Detroit as land owners, holding valuable private claims along the river. But with the exceptions of eight or ten, all of these claims had united to the government. The lands not embraced in the narrow private claims, on the Detroit River and its tributaries, were by various Indian deeds conveyed to some of the persons engaged in the plot, singly or
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