United States v. Lawton
Supreme Court of the United States
This wag an appeal from the Superior Court of East Florida, under thefollowing circumstances.. Ón the 10th of November, 1817, James Dárley presented the following petition ;to Governor Coppinger.
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This wag an appeal from the Superior Court of East Florida, under thefollowing circumstances.. Ón the 10th of November, 1817, James Dárley presented the following petition ;to Governor Coppinger. “ To his Excellency the Governor : “ Don Jaméis Darfey, a native of Great Britain, with the respect due to your Excellency, says, that with .the view of settling himself in this province under the protection of his Catholic Majesty, knowing the'.very great advantages that would result to the commerce of :it from the article of lumber, if machinery for sawing is erected, for sawing for the consumption…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Catron
We are called on. to ascertain .thé correctness of an opinion and decree pronounced by the Superior Court of East Florida, by which there was confirmed to certain claimants,- through James Darley, a tract of land containing 23,040 acres. The only question proposed to be examined, regards a location of the land by the decree. Darley solicited the governor of East Florida, in 1817, to grant to him in absolute'property six miles square of land, u at the place called Dunn’s lake, upon the river St. John’s” ; and the grant was. made as solicited. This is the entire description. The river .St.…
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