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Michigan BRANCH COUNTY
In ascending the century's ladder, as we reach the fiftieth round it is fitting that we pause for a moment and look back on the place and circumstances from which we began to ascend.,
Fifty years. It is the first jubilee since we entered this promised land. Let it be kept with joy and thanksgiving. Fifty years of privation and abundance, of sorrow and joy, of fear and hope, of toil and care, but fifty years of continual progress and growth, till to-day we appear in the full possession of all the comforts necessary to make us a happy and contented people.
TREATY PERIOD
But to begin this history of Quincy, it is necessary to go back a few years of the first settlement. In 1807, at Detroit, by treaty, the Indians ceded to the United States that part of now Michigan which lies between the lakes on the east and a line running due north from a point twenty miles west of the most western point of Lake Erie. In 1817, at the Rapids of the Maumee, General Cass negotiated a treaty, by which the Indians conveyed to the United States large tracts of land located in Northwestern Ohio and Northeastern Indiana. In 1818, through General Cass, the Pottawattomies transferred the fertile, valleys of the Wabash and Tippecanoe to our National Government.
In 1821 General Cass negotiated what is known as the treaty of Chicago, in which the Pottawattomies and their allies, the Ottawas and the Chippewas, for certain moneyed considerations, ceded to the United States the following tract of land, viz.
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