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Excerpt from Title Papers of the Clamorgan Grant of 536, 904 Arpens of Alluvial Lands in Missouri and Arkansas
Considering the above statement. Sir, and in consequence of the particular recommendations of his excellency the Governor General of the province, the petitioner hopes that you will condescend to grant him the quantity of land he Wishes to obtain, as well to favor him in the execution of all that may contribute in future to the pros perity' of his project, as to facilitate to him the means to attract hereafter, from a foreign country, an emigration of cultivators, who may not be obtained, perhaps, but after a considerable lapse of time, and by promises of rewards which the petitioner shall be obliged to fulfil. Therefore, he supplicates you to grant him, in the name of his Majesty, the tract of land which lies on the western side of the river Mississippi, beginning at the place which is opposite the head of an island situated at about one hundred arpens below the Little Prairie, which lies at the distance of about thirty miles below the village of New Madrid, in descending the current, and continuing to descend it until one is placed (on the same western side) right oppo site the outlet commonly known under the name of river (2 Carbono, the mouth of which is on the eastern side of the Mississippi; so that from the said place, situated, as aforesaid, opposite the mouth of the above-mentioned river Carbono, a line be drawn, running toward the southwest, or thereabout said line shall be drawn parallel to the one which is to be drawn from the place situated opposite the head of the island lying, as hereabove stated, at about one hundred arpens below the said Little Prairie; these two said lines shall run, in the depth, in a southwestern direction, or thereabout, and shall be the boundaries of each of those two opposite sides, until the extremities of the said two lines be sufficiently prolonged in the said direction.
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