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A PLOT FOR OBTAINING THE LOWER PENINSULA OF MICHIGAN
Immediately upon the conclusion of Wayne's treaty (which put an end to all private dealings with the Indians for the purchase of land), an agreement was made between several prominent inhabitants of Detroit and several persons from Vermont and Pennsylvania, which, if it had proved successful, would have made an entire change in the destiny of this region.
Ebenezer Allen and Charles Whitney, of Vermont, and Robert Randall, of Philadelphia, who were professedly American citizens,
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