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Caption: Marker detail: Original land deed record to Patrick McGulpin, 1808
Additional Description: PUBLIC LANDS. [No. 135]
To the Register of the Land Office at Detroit.
Detroit, October 19, 1808.

Sir: Patrick McGulpin hereby gives notice that he claims a certain tract of land, and makes entry of his said claim with the commissioners of the land office at Detroit, of six hundred and forty acres, with the houses, buildings, and improvements thereon made; which said tract of land is situated on the main land, southerly of said island of Michillimackinack, in said district, upon the strait of Lake Michigan, near the island of Michillimackinack, at a place called Old Michillimackinack, being twenty acres front by thirty-two acres in depth, and bounded in part, and on each side, and rear, by unlocated lands, being the same farm or tract of land whereon the father of the claimant lived, and, after his death, the said Patrick by himself and tenants, commonly known by the name of McGulpin's farm. The said Patrick sets up claim and title to said tract of land by virtue of long and continued possession, occupancy, and improvements in and by himself, and in and by those under whom he sets up title, and derives title.
For Patrick McGulpin,
Sol. Silbey, Attorney.
from American State Papers, Vol.1, page 374
Submitted: August 16, 2020, by Cosmos Mariner of Cape Canaveral, Florida.
Database Locator Identification Number: p535122
File Size: 0.604 Megabytes

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