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January 27. Woman's State Christian Temper- ance meeting.
February 14. Emanuel P. E. Church first used. March 17. Relief meeting at Opera House, in aid of Grasshopper Sufferers in Nebraska.
April 10. Thompson Home for Old Ladies incor- porated.
April 19. Lady Washington Tea Party at Opera House. A fine affair.
April 25. Cass Avenue Baptist Church dedi- cated.
April 29. Weber's factory burned ; loss from $200,000 to $300,000.
May 3. Prohibitory law repealed and liquor tax law passed.
May 11. Eleventh annual meeting of American Social Science Association.
May 29. Corner-stone of Public Library laid.
June 7. Mass meeting at Opera House in the · interest of Sabbath observance, and against allow- ing saloons to be opened on Sunday by permission of the Common Council. Authors' carnival opened at Young Men's Hall.
June 11. St. Joachim's Catholic Church blessed.
June 27. Catholic Church of the Sacred Heart consecrated. Shortly after 6 o'clock P. M. a tornado began near corner of Williams Avenue and Ash Street, and continued across Grand River Avenue, making a track 150 feet wide; two persons were killed, ten injured, thirty-three buildings entirely destroyed and twenty-eight damaged; loss $30,000.
July 26. M. W. Field's sale of lots in Hamtramck took place.
August 2. Formal opening of Young Men's Library in Merrill Block.
August 6. Common Council decide that saloons may be open from I to 10 P. M. on Sunday.
August 10. Mayor Moffat vetoes council action of August 6 concerning saloons.
August 11. Meeting of American Association for Advancement of Science.
August 22. Sunday. Nearly all the saloons were closed.
August 25. National Greenback Convention at Opera House. Michigan Booksellers' Convention opened.
September 13. Whitney's Opera House opened.
October 4. Mass meeting at Opera House in favor of closing saloons on Sunday.
November I. Immense Law and Order meeting at Opera House to promote election of a mayor opposed to saloons being opened on Sunday.
November 2. Alexander Lewis elected mayor on the Law and Order ticket.
November II. Harmonie Society Building dedi- cated.
November 23. Phoenix Club House opened.
November 27. District Telegraph Company went into operation.
1876. January 1. Ushering in of centennial year by general ringing of bells at midnight; all public and many private buildings illuminated.
January 18. The Supreme Court decides the liquor tax law constitutional.
January 20. Woman's Hospital on Thirteenth Street dedicated.
January 31. Union Fair in Mechanics' Building. February 1. St. James P. E. Chapel dedicated.
February 14. Y. M. C. A. Building on Farmer Street dedicated.
February 15. Y. M. C. A. noon meetings be- gan.
March 25. Fort Street Presbyterian Church burned.
April 13. Fortieth anniversary of organization
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of Brady Guards celebrated by twenty-six survivors at the Russell House.
April 14. Quarterly and Ninth Annual Meeting of the N. W. Branch of Women's Foreign Mission- ary Society in Central M. E. Church.
May I. Holy Trinity Anglo-Catholic Church organized.
May 5. Centennial tree-planting by pupils of the public schools.
May 7. Preliminary meeting held to promote organization of Y. M. C. A. Railroad Branch.
May 25. Seventh Annual Reunion of the Sol- diers and Sailors' Association.
June 18. Junction M. E. Church dedicated.
June 21. Formal opening of Y. M. C. A. Rail- road Branch Reading Room on Woodbridge Street.
June 27. Joint exhibition of Michigan State Pomological and Wayne County Horticultural So- cieties at Young Men's Hall.
June 30. Detroit Cadets leave for the Centennial Exhibition.
July 4. Centennial celebration ; imposing proces- sion and street decorations; boat races, illumina- tions, etc.
July 19. St. Vincent's Female Orphan Asylum, McDougall Avenue, dedicated.
October I. Little Sisters Home for the Aged Poor, between Orleans and Dequindre Streets, opened.
October 18. Thirteenth annual meeting of Na- tional Association of Locomotive Engineers.
October 24. Ninth annual session of the Rail- road Conductors' Life Insurance Association.
October 29, Sunday. The Larned Street exten- sion of the Cass Avenue Railroad was laid on this day
November 8. Great excitement over Presidential election returns.
November 21. Opening of Railroad Reading Rooms at Grand Trunk Junction.
1877. January 7. Memorial service, in memory of P. P. Bliss, at Whitney's Opera House.
January 19. Woman's Christian Temperance Restaurant opened in Y. M. C. A. Building.
January 22. Public Library building dedicated. February 6. Charity Ball for Relief and Aid So- ciety.
February 9. Michigan Savings Bank organized. Henry Ward Beecher lectured at Detroit Opera House in the evening, and Dr. Henry A. Reynolds, the Red Ribbon temperance reformer, in St. An- drew's Hall.
February 22. Young Men's Red Ribbon Club organized.
March 6. Telephone first explained and illus- trated at Detroit.
March 7. Meeting held to organize Working- woman's Home.
March 8. Horatio Seymour visited Detroit.
May 2. General Joe Hooker arrived.
May 23. Office of Fire Marshal created.
June 3. Eighteenth Street Baptist Church dedi- cated.
June 4. The forty-seventh annual convention of the Protestant Episcopal Church of Michigan began.
June 10. The rebuilt Fort Street Presbyterian Church was dedicated.
June 13. National stove-makers' convention held. June 16. The National Turnfest began.
June 20. The National Grand Division of the Sons of Temperance convened.
June 30. Captain John Horn, Jr., was presented by citizens with a very elegant gold watch for hav- ing at various times saved 131 persons from death by drowning.
July 8. Francis Murphy, the Blue Ribbon tem- perance reformer, lectured in Detroit. The first sewer built by tunneling under ground was con- structed this year.
July 18. Western Associated Press meeting.
July 20. Newsboys strike against the Evening News.
July 23. This day, and for a week following, great excitement about railroad strike. Canada Southern R R. trains stopped. The State troops were called out for their annual inspection ; the Third Regiment went into camp on the Reeder Farm on July 25.
August 10. Visit of mayor and aldermen of Buf- falo.
August 14. Opening of Northwestern Regatta ; it ended on the following Saturday.
September 15. Return of Bishop Borgess from Europe by way of C. S. R. R. The train traveled III miles in 109 minutes from St. Thomas to Detroit.
September 17. Vail & Crane's cracker factory burned.
October 14. The first number of The Post and Tribune was issued.
October 17. The Triennial Council of Congre- gationalists began.
October 30. Second Biennial Conference of U. S. Evangelical Alliance at First Presbyterian Church.
November 6. Saloons first closed on Election Day.
November 26. First provision made for licensing newsboys.
November 29. Reception by Y. M. C. A. to Re- form Club.
December 3. Workingwoman's Home incorpor- ated.
December 15. Reservoir in Hamtramck first used. 1878. February 26. Merchants and Manufac- turers' Exchange organized.
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June. St. Peter's Lutheran Church, Chene Street, dedicated. In the summer of this year the Wood- ward Avenue roadway was widened five feet, north of Willis Avenue.
June 2. A Bullock press and the papier-maché process was made use of by Free Press,-the first time in Michigan.
June 3. The twenty-sixth annual session of the International Typographical Union began.
June 13. Republican State Convention at Opera House.
June 16. First exhibition of phonograph in De- troit.
June 19. The National Eclectic Medical Asso- ciation met in Detroit.
August 15. Telephones first supplied to citizens. September 16. The State Fair opened on Cass Avenue, near Holden Road ; it lasted five days.
September 18. Liggett's Home and Day School first opened.
December 12. Modjeska performs in Detroit.
December 17. For the first time in years gold, greenbacks, and National Bank notes were of equal purchasing power.
December 25. The Steam Supply Company began to furnish steam.
December 29. St. Mary's P. E. Chapel first used.
1879. February 19. Reception by Light Guard to Governor Croswell at Opera House. Board of Trade began to occupy building corner Jefferson Avenue and Griswold Street.
May 10. Recreation Park first opened.
May 19. Berry Brothers' Varnish Factory blew up and killed several persons.
May 21. Board of Boulevard Commissioners provided for.
May 27. Council authorized to purchase Belle Isle and erect a bridge.
May 31. Board of Poor Commissioners provided for.
June 4. First exhibition of electric light.
September 17. Rev. Dr. S. S. Harris consecrated Protestant Episcopal Bishop of Michigan.
September 18. President Hayes and wife visited the city, and the State Fair on the Cass Farm.
September 25. The city purchased Belle Isle for a park.
November 1. Senator Chandler died in his room at the Grand Pacific Hotel, Chicago.
November 2. Senator Chandler's body was brought home by a committee of leading citizens of Michigan and Illinois.
November 9. The P. E. Mission of the Messiah was first used.
November 17. Michigan College of Medicine opened. Governor Croswell appointed ex-Governor Henry P. Baldwin U. S. Senator.
November 21. St. Mary's Hospital, on St. An- toine Street, opened.
December 9. New Industrial School building dedicated.
December 16. Second German Baptist Church dedicated. The Fort Wayne Congregational Mis- sion building was first used this month.
1880. January 4. Rev. George F. Pentecost's revival meetings began.
March 10. Epiphany Reformed Episcopal Church was incorporated.
April 22. The Detroit Association of Charities was organized.
June 3. Princess Louise and Prince Leopold passed through Detroit.
July 4. Very quiet; no firing or fireworks allowed.
July 22. Steam yacht Mamie run into by steamer Garland, and sixteen persons drowned, of whom eleven were acolytes of Trinity Church.
August 23. Central Market building completed, and accepted by city.
August 30. Peninsular Sängerfest began.
August 31. Music Hall opened.
September 21. The Evening News was first printed on a Scott press, using the papier-maché process.
November 25. Jubilee thanksgiving services held at Central Church to celebrate payment of debts on all Methodist Episcopal Churches in the city.
December 12. Clinton Avenue Baptist Chapel dedicated.
1881. January 12. The boiler at Union Mills exploded, and three persons were killed.
January 16. Clinton Avenue Memorial Presby- terian Chapel was dedicated.
January 20. Archibald Forbes, correspondent of London Times, lectured.
January 22. The State Telephone System went into operation.
February 8. The Michigan Fire and Marine Insurance Company was incorporated.
February 24. Reception to Governor Jerome at Music Hall, under auspices of the Detroit Light Guard.
February 27. St. Luke's Memorial P. E. Chapel consecrated.
March II. Office of ward school inspector abol- ished ; inspectors to be elected on general ticket.
April 21. Board of Estimates abolished. Board of Councilmen provided for.
May 5. Entirely new ward divisions created.
May 26. First systematic provision made for Board of Health.
June 12. The Post and Tribune first printed on Scott rotary press.
July 3. Trumbull Avenue Presbyterian Church dedicated.
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July 6. Excursion to Butler, Indiana, of subscri- bers to bonus of $200,000 given the Detroit, Butler, & St. Louis R. R.
July 17. Catholic Church of the Holy Redeemer, Springwells, consecrated.
July 19. Soldiers' Monument completed.
August 14. First through train from St. Louis arrived at Detroit.
August 29. Board of Park Commissioners created. September 8. Meeting held to raise money for sufferers by Michigan fires.
October 18. Universalist Church dedicated.
November 29. Westminster Presbyterian Church, Woodward Avenue, dedicated.
December 27. Commercial National Bank or- ganized.
1882. January I. The first through train arrived at Marquette from Mackinaw.
January 2. First sitting of three judges instead of one in Circuit Court.
January 13. The jury in the libel suit of Hugh S. Peoples against the Evening News, for intimating that he was accessory to the murder of Martha Whitla, bring in a verdict for the defense. Peo- ples was subsequently tried for the murder and acquitted.
February 10. Carlotta Patti sings in Detroit.
February 26. Thirty-second Street German M. E. Church dedicated.
May 15. Belle Isle Lighthouse first used.
June I. Delray M. E. Church dedicated.
June 10. Visit of aldermen of Dayton.
June 14. Reunion of Army of the Potomac ; General Grant and other notables present.
June 15. Immense procession in morning ; sham battle on the Fair grounds in afternoon, and ban- quet at Merrill Hall in the evening.
June 21. National Kindergarten convention.
July I. Offices of Lake Survey discontinued at Detroit.
July II. National Amateur Press convention.
July 26. Banquet to General Godfrey Weitzel on the occasion of his leaving the city. Roadway of Woodward Avenue widened between Columbia Street and Willis Avenue.
August 9. Milwaukee city officials visit the city. August 18. The Fourteenth Regiment Ohio Na- tional Guard encamp on Belle Isle.
August 22. Conclave of Knights of Pythias.
October 19. Mt. Hope Congregational Mission building dedicated.
October 24. Street-sweeping machines first used. December 17. Clinton Avenue Memorial Pres- byterian Church dedicated.
December 29. Complimentary banquet to C. C. Trowbridge on his eighty-third birthday by over one hundred citizens.
1883. January 1. Organization of Protective Fire Company.
January 8. Burning of the Telegraph Block and narrow escape of Western Union Telegraph opera- tors.
January 18. Day Nursery and Kindergarten As- sociation building opened.
January 28: Wesley M. E. Church dedicated.
February I. Clearing House established.
March 4. Harper Avenue Congregational Mis- sion dedicated.
March 18. The Wabash Railroad commenced using the grounds and depot of the Union Railroad Station and Depot Co.
March 30. Detroit Light Guard Levee to Gov. J. W. Begole, at Music Hall.
April 25. New system of city Justice Courts pro- vided for.
April 29. St. Cassimer's Catholic Church con- secrated.
May 13. St. Matthews' P. E. Church conse- crated.
May 21. Explosion at the Wolverine Paper Mill ; Engineer Wm. Thompson killed and Fireman John P. Frank fatally injured ; several firemen injured by a falling wall.
May 23. Senator Palmer gave a reception to the Legislature and State officials.
May 31. The National Free Trade Conference opened; it was the first held in America.
June 5. New city charter enacted. Board of Assessors created.
June 5 and 6. State Band tournament at Recrea- tion Park.
June 6. Annual conference of P. E. Churches of Eastern Michigan.
June II. The M. C. R. R. began running by Detroit time.
July 7. The Continental Guards of New Orleans visited the city.
July 8. Zion Lutheran Church, at Springwells, dedicated.
July 19. Strike of. telegraph operators began.
August 13. Meeting of National Charcoal Iron Workers' Association.
August 14. Annual Convention of the Interna- tional Traveling Passenger Agents' Association.
August 19. St. Boniface Catholic Church build- ing consecrated.
August 28. Convention of the Mutual Benefit Association of America. The first Synod of the West (United Presbyterians) began its services in the U. P. Church.
September I. The Art Loan opened. The Even- ing Journal first issued.
September 3. Postal notes first issued in De- troit.
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September 5. Zoological Garden opened.
September 12. Polish Celebration of two hun- dredth anniversary of the Battle of Vienna.
September 17. Opening of the State Fair.
October I. Two-cent letter postage began.
October 2. The American Board of Commis- sioners for Foreign Missions assembled.
October 6. State Universalists' Convention held. October 7. Asbury M. E. Mission dedicated.
October 10. Celebration of the two hundredth anniversary of the landing of the first Germans in the United States.
October 14. St. Barnabas' P. E. Mission building first used.
October 17. Annual meeting of the Western Associated Press.
October 24. The State Savings Bank was organ- ized.
October 31. The tenth annual convention of the National W. C. T. U. began.
November 4. Second building of Bethel Evangel- ical Association dedicated. Monsignor T. J. Capel lectured in Detroit.
November 13. Meeting of American Public Health Association.
November 22. Convent of the Order of the Good Shepherd opened.
December 2. Cass Avenue M. E. Chapel dedi- cated.
December 4. Daily Times first issued.
December 25. Protestant Episcopal Mission building of the Good Shepherd first used.
December 27. Reception at Detroit Club House to Chief-Justice B. F. Graves, on his retirement from the Michigan Supreme Court.
1884. January 17. Matthew Arnold lectured in Detroit.
January 23. Annual meeting of Grand Army of the Republic.
February 27. M. S. Smith & Co.'s Automatic Clock unveiled.
May 6. Extensive fire at Frost's Wooden Ware Works.
May 21. National Baptist Anniversaries began. June 13. National Convention of Travelers' Pro- tective Association opened.
June 16-17. The Thomas Festival was held. Christine Nilsson, Frau Materna, and other noted singers present.
June 24. The annual convention of Knights of St. John begun.
August 27. The quadrennial meeting of the bishops of the African M. E. Church convened at Bethel M. E. Church, Lafayette Street, at II A. M. The following is a list of the bishops in attendance, together with their residences : D. A. Payne, D. D., LL.D., Xenia, O .; J. P. Shorter, Xenia, O .; T. M. D. Ward, D. D., Bennings, Md .; John M. Brown, D. D., Washington, D. C .; H. M. Turner, LL. D., Atlanta, Ga .; W. F. Dickinson, D. D., Columbia, S. C .; R. H. Cain, D. D., Dallas, Tex.
September 1. General B. F. Butler addressed a political meeting in west Grand Circus Park.
September 13. In the evening General John A. Logan addressed a Republican meeting at the Roller Skating Rink, on Larned Street East.
September 17. A fire broke out about 2.30 P. M. on High Street, between Third and Fourth Streets ; it extended to Grand River Avenue, and destroyed two planing mills, several small stores, and six or seven houses; the loss reaching probably $ 50,000.
September 19. At about 2.30 P. M. several per- sons in the city, and others in the interior of the State and in Ohio and Indiana, were conscious of the tremor of an earthquake. It was so slight, how- ever, that probably not one person in a hundred in the city observed it.
October 7. John P. St. John, the Prohibition candidate for President, delivered an address at the Detroit Opera House.
October 7-II. Ninth annual meeting of the Church Congress of the Protestant Episcopal Church held at Whitney's Opera House. Rev. Phillips Brooks, D. D., Right Rev. Henry C. Potter, D. D., Rev. George D. Wildes, D. D., Rev. Wm. Clark, M. A., Rev. R. Heber Newton, D. D., and other notable clergymen were present, as was also Henry George and many distinguished laymen.
October 14. James G. Blaine and John C. Fre- mont present at a Republican gathering. Parade of five hundred horsemen and many torchbearers in the evening.
APPENDIX A.
A DESCRIPTIVE LIST OF THE FRENCH FARMS OR PRIVATE CLAIMS IN WAYNE COUNTY.
[Copyright, 1884, by Silas Farmer.]
IN this list, the first name under the head of Remarks is the name of the township in which the claim is located. Unless otherwise specified, the number of acres given is as found on Aaron Greely's engraved map of Private Claims of 1810, but in nearly fifty claims the number of acres, as given in his original notes, differs from the number of acres given for the same claim on his map, published by the United States. It is also true that all of the surveys were so carelessly made that many of the claims include more acres than are herein given. The number of acres confirmed as back concessions to several of the claims, is given directly underneath the number of acres of the original claim, and is as given in American State Papers, or in surveys of the government surveyors.
In addition to the claims in this list, the commissioners confirmed at least three small tracts of land that lay between the Cass and Brush Farms and that were included in the Governor and Judges' Plan. They were numbered 3, 4, and 94 in the first report of the commissioners, but are no longer known or described by numbers. The names are given as they are spelled in the American State Papers.
No. of Claim.
No. of Acres.
Name of Claimant.
Date of Confirmation.
Remarks.
I
134 .18 .. 336.83. .
John Askin
June 30, 1807. . June 30, 1807.
Detroit. The west half of this tract is now known as the Lambert Beaubien, and the east half as the Antoine Beaubien Farm.
5 6
7
135.96 .. 132.06. . 192 . 77 57. 59
Chas. Moran.
Louis Moran
Maurice Moran
July 1, 1807.
Detroit. The front is now known as the Hunt Farm. Although originally numbered 7, yet in_Greely's Surveys it is numbered 182; and in Joseph Fletcher's Survey of the rear concession it is also numbered 182. See also 182.
8
106. 13 L 23.86 §
Catherine Dequindre.
July 2, 1807
Detroit. This is part of the tract known as the De- quindre Farm. See P. C. 265.
9 & 454
203.70. .
John Robert McDougall
July 3, 1807 Dec. 7, 1808
1
Detroit. This tract is known as the McDougall Farm. The number of acres given includes the area of both claims, 454 being the rear concession of 9. See also P. C. 454.
IO
100 . 36 L 95.06 386.04 ..
Henry Connor.
1823.
Grosse Pointe.
II & 453
139.70 ..
Benoit Chapoton
1 July 3, 1807 Dec. 7, 1808
-
Detroit. This tract is now known as the B. Chapoton Farm. The number of acres given includes the area of both claims, 453 being the rear concession of II. See also Private Claim 132. and 560. Grosse Pointe.
New II 12
140.19 .. 88.95 L 37.55 5 633 .84 . . 121. 16 12.59 207.99 . . 146.20 / 129.68 \ 347.12 .. 105.07 ..
Heirs of joseph Pomerville
1823.
July 6, 1807.
Detroit. Known as the Guoin Farm.
New
Joseph Louis Tremble
1823.
Grosse Pointe.
Nich. Guoin
July 6, 1807.
Detroit. Now known as the Riopelle Farm.
Detroit. Now known as the St. Aubin Farm.
Detroit. Now know as the Leib Farm.
16 17 I8 19
144 .70 ! 141. 135 139.67( 147.72 ) 137.29( 145.75 103 . 36 91.40 5
Geo. Meldrum.
July 8, 1807
Hamtramck. Known as the Meldrum Farm.
Louis Benfait.
July 10, 1807.
20
Robert Navarre
July 15, 1807
Detroit. The easterly 5-12 of this tract is now known as the Brevoort Farm.
21
Pierre D. Labadi
July 15, 1807.
Detroit. This tract, together with the westerly 7-12 of Private Claim 20, is now known as the Porter Farm.
22 23
102. 53 103.09 66.71 74.10 67.37 69.98
Jos. Beaubien
July 16, 1807
Detroit. This is part of the tract now known as the Woodbridge Farm.
Francois Gamelin
Detroit. Now known as the Forsyth Farm.
24
Alexis Labadi
July 16, 1807 July 16, 1807
Detroit. Now known as the Baker Farm.
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0
Antoine Beaubien
July 1, 1807. July 1, 1807.
Detroit. Known as the Charles Moran Farm. Detroit. Known as the Louis Moran Farm.
Louis Moran
July 3, 1807.
Hamtramck.
12 13. 14 15
Phillis Peltier
July 6, 1807.
Francis P. Matcher.
Hamtramck. Now known as the Church Farm.
Francois Gouin
July 6, 1807. July 8, 1807.
Detroit. This is part of the tract now known as the Dequindre Farm.
Hamtramck. Known as the Beaufait Farm.
Charles Gouin
Chas. Peltier
July 6, 1807.
New IO
Detroit. Known as the Brush Farm.
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DESCRIPTIVE LIST OF FRENCH FARMS OR PRIVATE CLAIMS.
No. of Claim.
No. of Acres.
Name of Claimant.
Date of Confirmation.
Remarks.
25
26
197.80. . 199.92 . . 104.02 101 . 58
Jos. Serre dit St. Jean
July 18, 1807
27
James Peltier.
July 18, 1807
Detroit. Now known as the Lognon Farm.
New
27
99.47 . .
Abraham Cook
1823
Hamtramck. Part of this tract, now known as the Cook Farm, is the front of Private Claim 153, and is numbered Private Claim 734 on the Greely Map, but it was not numbered at all by the Commission- ers of Claims. This claim, and also the one next east of it, also not numbered by the commissioners or on the Greely Map, were both confirmed to Cook in 1823, as No. 27.
28 29
Rebecca Cissne Chas. Rouleau
July 20, 1807
Springwells.
3º
Matthew Ernest.
July 20, 1807
Springwells.
31 32 32 33 34 35
36
37
Chas. Chovin
July 20, 1807
Ecorce.
38
39
New 39
New
40 40
213.19. . 500.00 ..
John Steinbeck and Jos. Cherboneau :. Heirs of Joseph Harrison. . .
July 22, 1807 1823 . .
Springwells. Erroneously numbered 317 and 318 on Belden Atlas.
4I
42
New
42
43
Heirs of Frances Chobert Jancaire. James Cissne
July 22, 1807
New 43 44
100. 48 102.96 595.60 162.91 5
Francois Lafontaine
July 23, 1807 July 23, 1807
Ecorce.
New 46
47
376.56. .
Jacob Vinger
Aug. 6, 1807.
New
47 48
225 00. . 335.00. . 305.00 896.00 5
Heirs of Thos. Smith
1823.
Ecorce. These last two portions of the original claim were numbered 46 in the Commissioner's report of 1823. The date of U. S. Patent of last claim of 896 acres is April 17, 1845.
Ecorce. Ecorce. Ecorce.
5I 52
New 53 54 55
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59 60 61
Ann Coates James Baby. Ambrose Riopel
Nov. 21, 1807 .. Nov. 26, 1807. . Nov. 26, 1807.
Springwells.
Springwells and Ecorce. The Commissioners con- firmed but one P. C. 61, and their description could not possibly have included the two different claims numbered 61 on the Greely Map, one of which contains 209.52 acres and the other 220.74 acres, both of them marked to Ambrose Riopelle, and in entirely different locations, but as the surveys of Greely were made authoritative by Act of Con- gress, both claims hold good.
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