Highstone v. Burdette

Under an Act of Congress entitled “An act to confirm certain claims to lands in the territory of Michigan,”1 the heirs of Prancis [Clairmon] Claremont were confirmed in their claim “to the tract of land containing seventy-eight acres and ninety one-hundredths of án acre,, bounded northwardly by lot numbered eleven, eastwardly by Lake Huron, southwardly by lot numbered nine, and westwardly by the public lands; and being designated on the connected map of private claims at Michilimackinac as ‘lot numbered ten, at Point St. Ignace.’ ” A patent was issued by the United States to the heirs of…