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A PLOT FOR OBTAINING THE LOWER PENINSULA OF MICHIGAN
entered into a contract with John Askin, Jonathan Schifflin, William Robertson, John Askin, Jr., David Robertson, Robert Jones and Richard Patterson, all of Detroit, and all attached to Great Britain, the terms of which were in effect as follows: They proposed to obtain from the United States the title to all the land within the limits of the present peninsula of Michigan, then estimated at from eighteen to twenty millions of acres, (excepting such parts as were appropriated along the settlements), upon the understanding that they would themselves extinguish the Indian title. They meant to secure the purchase from Congress at a half a million dollars, (or a million at the outside),
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