?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 400 - $ 600
GRANTED TO CO-FOUNDER OF SAGINAW, MI MONROE, JAMES. Two Partly-printed vellum Documents Signed, as President, granting 72 or 76 acres of land in the District of Detroit to Charles Little. Each countersigned by Commissioner of the General Land Office George Graham. Each 1 page, 9 1/2x16 inches; deep vertical folds, docketing on verso, paper seals intact. Washington, 3 February 1824
Charles Little (d. 1842) was a physician who practiced in Livingston County, NY, until he settled in the Michigan Territory in the 1820s, where he and his descendants developed various areas in the Saginaw Valley including much of what has become the East Side of the present-day city of Saginaw.
