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Michigan BRANCH COUNTY
beginning at a point on the river a few miles above St. Joseph, thence south to a line running east from the most southern part of Lake Michigan, thence east to line designated by the treaty of Detroit, thence north to a point due east of the source of the Grand River, thence west to the source and down the north bank of the Grand River to its mouth, thence south along the shore of Lake Michigan to the St. Joe, thence up the river to the point of beginning, except five designated reservations of which, six miles square, was located on the Mik-ke-saw-bee known as the Coldwater Reservation, within what was afterward Branch county.
Thus this tract of country embracing nearly all of Southern Michigan, by this act, was conveyed to the government, and this treaty is the basis of the
legal right by which each of you hold your land. When you read your deed remember General Cass and the treaty of Chicago, August 29th, 1821.
CHICAGO ROAD
Through the influence of General Cass, the Government at Washington . ordered the location of a road 100 feet wide between Detroit and Chicago.
It was purposed, at first, to locate it on section lines. The rapid exhaustion of the appropriation and the almost insuperable difficulties thwarting the execution of this plan, led to its abandonment, and the adoption of the old Indian trail, as the route for the road.
BRANCH COUNTY MICHIGAN
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