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Note: A great land company was organized at Chicago, of which Hiram Piersons and Hon. Henry Pennoyer were prominent members, the object of which company was to hold by "squatters' claim " the mouths of all the streams north of Grand River, and up to and including the Manistee, until the same should come into market. Pennoyer built a house this same year [1836] at what is now called Sevastopol, at the foot of Muskegon Lake. One Michael Vandervoort and Hannibal Hyde also made claims, a vessel named the "Westward Ho," Capt. James Banks, having brought them over from Chicago.
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