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July 28, 1821

Letters dated at Washington on the subject of "Carver's Grant" were written; Col. Leavenworth informed the Commissioner of the General Land Office that the Indians do not recognize or acknowledge the grant as valid.

Meanwhile, closer to home

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The Six Nations, St. Regis, Stockbridge and Munsee nations, by permission of the United States government, purchased lands from the Menominee and Winnebago nations near Green Bay, on the west side of Michigan Lake, under government patronage and aid; the General Government confirmed their title. One passage, however, states that the Oneida and Stockbridge Indians settled near Green Bay in 1821 and purchased lands there "in the subsequent year," placing the purchase in 1822.

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A treaty was held with the Pottawattamies and Ottawas living round the south and eastern parts of Lake Michigan, in which four million acres of their lands were purchased by the United States.

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Peters and his friends, the committee will refer to a letter addressed by Col. Leavenworth, on the 28th of July, 1821, to the late Commissioner of the General Land Office. The writer informs him that “the Indians do not recognize or acknowledge the grant (Carver’s) to be valid.

Draper, Lyman Copeland, editor. Report and Collections of the State Historical Society of Wisconsin for the Years 1869, 1870, 1871 and 1872. Collections of the State Historical Society of Wisconsin, vol. 6, Madison, 1872; page-for-page reprint, ed. Reuben Gold Thwaites, Madison: State Historical Society of Wisconsin, 1908. University of California copy, digitized by Google Books.PDF p. 270 / book p. 254

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