Year 1828. CLAIMS IN MICHIGAN. Page 231

NOTICE.-Jean Bt. Tesserron enter his claim with the register of the land office at Detroit to a certain tract of land situated at Point St. Ignace, bounded in front by Lake Huron, on the easterly side by Pierre Muller’s lot, and on the westerly side by a lot claimed by Ezekiel Solomons, the same being five chains seventy-five links in width by eighty acres in depth.

His mark.

JEAN BT. TESSERRON.

Taken and subscribed before me.

J. D. DOTY, Judge.

On the 31^st day of July, 1823, came before me, the undersigned judge, at Mackinac, Joseph Dellevere, who, being duly sworn, saith that for one year at least before the late war between the United States and Great Britain Jean Baptiste Tesserron planted the tract mentioned in the annexed notice, and continued to occupy and cultivate the same during the whole said war, and was in the possession of the same on the 1^st day of July, 1812. The said Tesserron had a dwelling-house erected on said lot, and had a considerable improvement made there.

His mark.

JOSEPH DELLEVERE.

Taken and subscribed before me.

J. D. DOTY, Judge.

On the same day of July, 1823, came before me also Alexis Lorrain, who, being duly sworn, saith that Jean Baptiste Tesserron occupied and cultivated the tract described in the preceding notice two years at least before the war, and he did not leave the same until after the close of said war, during the whole of which time he cultivated the front of said tract, and was in possession and cultivation of the same on the 1^st day of July 1812. During the whole of this time the deponent lived the next neighbor to said Tesserron.

His mark.

ALEXIS LORRAIN

Taken and subscribed before me.

J. D. DOTY, Judge.

On the same day of July, 1823, came also before me Simon Champaigne, who, being duly sworn, saith that Jean Bt. Tesserron saith that Jean Bt. Tesserron was in the possession and cultivation of the tract above mentioned four years before the late war, and continued to occupy and cultivate the same until the close of the said war, without any interruption, and was in the possession of the same on the 1^st day of July, 1812.

His mark.

SIMON CAHMPAIGNE.

Taken and subscribe before me.

J. D. DOTY, Judge.

Detroit, October 21, 1821.

The commissioners confirm to Jean Baptiste Tesserron the tract claimed, agreeably to the limits set forth in the preceding notice, the word arpent being substituted for acre in relation to the depth thereof.

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