Felix's Land Grant

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This document can be found on the Bureau of Land Management website should you be interested in viewing or printing it. It is certificate #662 dated 24 July 1811 and begins: James Madison, President of the United States of America, to All to Whom These Presents Shall Come, Greeting: Know ye, that Felix Mette' ........
Note the spelling of our ancestors surname. The original french spelling had only one letter "t", but did have the accent mark on the final "e". This was 1811 and in the next few years, that final letter "e" would be changed to "y". But in the transition, there was a period of time during which the name was spelled Mettez.
The land description places the property bordering on the River Rouge. Would it not be interesting to trace the ownership of this land and determine for what period of time it remained in the family and perhaps to what use it is being put to in our modern day!

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