The historical geography of Detroit . 1780 Joseph Benac secured six thousandacres on La Creque (Sandy Creek), on which he settledin 1792. In the same year thirty-eight small tractswere settled along the River Rouge and at Point auTremble. In 1782 nineteen families settled on land ad-jacent to that of Sinclair, and the next year tw^entyfamilies settled near by. In 1784 one hundred andtwenty-one families settled on the River Raisin, and in1786 Francois Pepin purchased three thousand acreson the La Riviere aux Roches. Other tracts were takenup. McNiff says that when settlers came from thestates,
The historical geography of Detroit . 1780 Joseph Benac secured six thousandacres on La Creque (Sandy Creek), on which he settledin 1792. In the same year thirty-eight small tractswere settled along the River Rouge and at Point auTremble. In 1782 nineteen families settled on land ad-jacent to that of Sinclair, and the next year tw^entyfamilies settled near by. In 1784 one hundred andtwenty-one families settled on the River Raisin, and in1786 Francois Pepin purchased three thousand acreson the La Riviere aux Roches. Other tracts were takenup. McNiff says that when settlers came from thestates, instead of being placed on waste lands of thetown they are told that such and such tracts were theproperty of individuals by virtue of purchase of the In-dians, and that there was no land. Many returnedto the States or bought land at an price,paying one thousand pounds for one hundred acres. 95. Ihid. 96. Stoney Island (see map. Chapter VII). 97. Amer. State Papers, Public Lands, 1, 265. 124 HISTORICAL GEOGRAPHY OF DETROIT. DGirrct J79(o. frcry-, /^ich .Po^6e>- Soe,cl -J Co/. ^oA3. Detroit in 1796{From Afic/u Pioneer Collection, III.) DETROIT UNDER THE BRITISH 125 Many were kept out by the reports spread at FortPitt that there was no free land in Michigan, that allwas claimed by a few individuals.^^ By 1796 much of the land in sovitheastem Michiganalong the rivers and lakes had been taken up from theIndians. The nucleus of this settled region was thepalisaded fort at Detroit, with dwellings thickly placedabout. Within six or eight miles of the fort to thenorth and south, the narrow of the original Frenchgrants made the settlement compact, but beyond this thehouses were more and more isolated. Scotts Gazetteerdescribes Detroit in 1797 as being the largest andbest fortified town in the Northwest Territory. Itconsists, it says,^^ of several paralleled streets, whichare crossed by others at right angles. The streets arenarrow and in the rainy season, dirty. . Th
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