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ADDRESS OF THE PRESIDENT.6
On the seventeenth of November, 1807, at the village of Detroit, a treaty was negotiated by Governor Hull, Superintendent of Indian Affairs, with the Ottawa, Chippewa, , Wyandotte and Pottawattomie nations of Indians, embracing nearly half of the Lower Peninsula. This unbroken wilderness was surveyed in the year 1812 by Joseph Fletcher, and by proclamation of the President, dated March 15, 1820, it was offered in market on the first Monday in July following. This survey began at the bay where the outlet of the Maumee river enters Lake Erie, and ran directly north one hundred and
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