Year 1828. CLAIMS IN MICHIGAN. Page 229

NOTICE -. François Lapointe enters his claim with the register of the land office at Detroit to a tract of land situated at Point St. Ignace; bounded in front by Lake Huron, and on the sides and in the rear by vacant lands; the line of the easterly side of said tract running south 80° west, and the line on the westerly side running the same course; said tract being eight English acres in front by eighty acres in depth.

His mark.

FRANCOIS LAPOINTE

MICHAEL DOUSMAN.
THOS. P. JAMES.

Year 1828. CLAIMS IN MICHIGAN. Page 230

On July 31, 1823, came before the undersigned judge, at Mackinac, Jean Bt. Tesserron, who, being duly sworn, saith that François Lapointe occupied and cultivated the front of the tract described in the annexed notice two or three years, the deponent is certain before the year 1812; that said Lapointe erected on said tract a dwelling-house, barn, out-house, and had several acres of land under enclosure; this deponent cannot estimate the quantity; that the said Lapointe continued to occupy and cultivate said premises without any interruption, and without removing therefrom during the whole of the years 1810, 1811, and 1812, and, in fact, until the year 1820; that this deponent has lived in the same settlement; that he has seen grain growing on said lot; and that he is, therefore, well knowing to the possession of said Lapointe; that said Lapointe was in the occupation and cultivation of said tract on the 1st day of July, 1812.

His mark.

JEAN BT. TESSERRON.

Taken and subscribed before me.

J. D. DOTY, Judge.

On the same day of July, 1823, also came before me Patrick McGulpin, who, being duly sworn, says that he is certain that François Lapointe occupied and cultivated the before-described tract of land four years before the late war, and that said Lapointe has been in the constant possession and cultivation of said premises from that time to the year 1820; that said Lapointe cultivated and enclosed a considerable portion of said tract, and had erected thereon a dwelling-house and several out-houses; and that said Lapointe was in the possession and cultivation of said tract on the 1st day of July, 1812.
PATRICK McGULPIN.

Taken and subscribed before me.

J. D. DOTY, Judge.
 

On the same day of July, 1823, came also before me Simon Champaigne, and the preceding depostions of Patrick McGulpin and Jean Bt. Tesserron being read to him, he, first being duly sworn, saith that the facts therein contained in relation to the cultivation and occupation of the tract before described by Francois Lapointe at the time therein mentioned are, as this deponent well knows, just and true.
his mark.
SIMON CHAMPAIGNE.

Taken and subscribed before me.

J. D. DOTY, Judge.

Detroit, October 28, 1823.

The preceding claim of François Lapointe is confirmed, agreeably to the limits set forth in the notice prefixed, the word arpent being substituted for acre in relation to its depth.

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