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Year 1828. CLAIMS IN MICHIGAN. Page 242
Claim of Pierre Cowne, alias Constant.
To the commissioners for ascertaining and
deciding on claims to lands in the district of Detroit, and for
settling claims to lands at Green bay, Prairie du Chien, and
Michilimackinac, in the Territory of Michigan:
Whereas Pierre Cowne, otherwise Pierre
Constant, has heretofore purchased a certain tract or parcel of land
upon the island of Michilimackinac, in the county of
Michilimackinac, and Territory of Michigan, which said piece or lot
of land is bounded as described by a certificate of Aaron Greely, as
by him surveyed, (which said certificate is herewith transmitted;)
and, also, whereas the said Cowne, otherwise Constant, purchased
said lot of a certain Charles Bosquie for a valuable consideration,
by him, the said Cowne, otherwise Constant, to him, the said Bosquie,
in hand paid, sometime in. the month of June, 1812, said property
having, long previous to that date, been improved, cultivated, and.
occupied by said Bosquie, and at the time and date put said Cowne,
otherwise Constant into full and free possession of said lot of
land, with. its appurtenances, buildings, and improvements; which
said lot of land has been peaceably held, occupied, and cultivated
by the said Pierre aforesaid, from that date to the present time:
Therefore you, the above-named commissioners, are notified that
claim is hereby made to the lot or piece of land herein-before
described by the same Pierre Cowne, otherwise Constant in conformity
with the provisions of the several acts of Congress relative to land
claims in the Territory of Michigan.
His mark.
PIERRE COWNE.
MICHILIMACKINAC, June 11, 1823.
TERRITORY OF MICHIGAN, County of
Michilimackinac, ss:
Personally appeared before me, William H. Putbuff, chief justice of
the county court of the county of Michilimackinac aforesaid, Pierre
La Sallier, of lawful age, who, being duly sworn, doth, on his oath,
depose and say that Pierre Cowne, alias Constant having purchased a
certain tract or parcel of land, bounded as described by certificate
of Aaron Greely, as by him surveyed, upon the island of
Michilimackinac, bearing date on November 18, A. D. 1819; that said
Cowne, alias Constant, purchased said lot of a certain Charles
Bosquie for a valuable consideration, by him, the said Cowne, alias
Constant, to him, the said Bosquie, in hand paid, sometime in the
month of June, 1812, said property having, long previous to that
date, been improved, cultivated, and occupied by said Bosquie, and,
at the time and date, put said Cowne, alias Constant into full and
free possession of said lot of land, with its tenements, buildings,
and improvements; which said lot of land, with its appurtenances,
has been peaceably held, occupied, and cultivated by him, the said
Pierre Cowne, alias Constant aforesaid, from that time to the
present date; and that said Pierre has continued to submit to the
authority of the United States. And further this deponent saith not.
his mark.
PIERRE LA SELLIER.
BOROUGH OF MACKINAC, ss:
July 24, 1823.
Sworn to and subscribed to before me, the within-named William H.
Puthuff, chief justice as aforesaid, on the day and year above
written.
WILLILM H. PUTHUFF.
Year 1828. CLAIMS IN MICHIGAN. Page 243
TERRITORY OF MICHIGAN, County of
Michilimackinac, ss:
Personally appeared before me, William H. Puthuff chief justice of
the county court of the county of Michilimackinac, Joseph Dumaville,
of lawful age, who, having been duly sworn, doth, on his oath,
depose and say that Pierre Cowne, otherwise Constant having
purchased a certain tract or parcel of land, bounded as described by
certificate of Aaron Greely, as by him surveyed, upon the island of
Michilimackinac, bearing date November 18, A. D. 1819; that said
Cowne, otherwise Constant purchased said lot of a certain Charles
Bosquie for a valuable consideration by him, the said Constant, to
him, the said Bosquie, in hand paid, sometime since, in the month of
June, 1812, said property having, long previous to that date, been
improved, cultivated, and occupied by said Bosquie; and, at the time
and date, put said Cowne, otherwise Constant, into full and free
possession of said lot of land, with its tenements, buildings, and
improvements; which said lot of land, with its appurtenances, has
been peaceably held, occupied, and cultivated by him, the said
Pierre Cowne, otherwise Constant, aforesaid, from that date to the
present time; and that said Pierre has continued to submit to the
authority of the United States. And further this deponent saith not.
His mark.
JOSEPH DUMAVILLE.
BOROUGH OF MACKINAC, ss:
Sworn to and subscribed before me, the within
named William H. Puthuff, chief justice as aforesaid, the day and
year above written.
WILLIAM H. PUTHUFF.
MICHILIMACKINAC, November 18, 1819.
I certify that I have surveyed a claim of Pierre Constant, adjoining
the south end of the village of Michilimackinac, bounded as follows:
commencing at a boundary on the south line of the village between
this claim and a claim of Charles Petots; thence south 11° east, 282
feet, to the shore of Lake Huron; thence, along the border of said
lake, east, 195 feet and six-tenths of a foot; thence north 12°
west, 167 feet, to a boundary on the lake shore, terminating the
south line of the village; thence, along said line, north 63° west,
268 feet, to the place of beginning; containing 40,297 square feet
reserving 100 feet along the border of the lake for the use of a
road.
AARON GREELY, Survey of Private Land Claims for
the Territory of Michigan.
DETROIT, October 29, 1823.
The commissioners at their sitting of this day
confirm to Pierre Cowne, otherwise Constant, the tract specified in
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