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FORT DETROIT.
therein that the inhabitants aforesaid, have not to this day dared to undertake the clearing and settling of the land situated and lying on the aforesaid strait, because they had no title by which the possession thereof would be secured to them; that should we be pleased to grant them said titles, they
would thereby not only be enabled to cultivate and improve said lands without running a risk of being disturbed thereafter, but that considerable advantages would be derived by their labors in procureing thereby in said Detroit and its vicinity provisions in abundance which would enable the garrison of the aforesaid Fort, also the inhabitants and voyagers to find a convenient subsistence; having taken the above reasons in consideration, and considering the letters-patent of his Majesty given at Paris in the
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