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Land Piracy In Oakland County

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Parent Issue
Day
5
Month
May
Year
1841
Copyright
Public Domain
OCR Text

It will be recollected by many of the citizens of this State, that in November last, certain persons to the number of twenty or thirty, assembled upon the farm of Phineas Davis, in the town of White Lake Oakland county, and consummated a scene of plunder and robbery that would have disgraced a tribe of barbarians - destroying and carrying off property to the amount of $5,000. At the recent term of the circuit court in that county, David Parker, Jesse Champman, Duncan McCalI, Geo. Milholland, James Milholland, George W. Burrows, Benj. Sowles, Samuel Bennett, Luman Bennett, David W. Bennett, Abel Buck, and James Foreman, were severally found guilty of maliciously destroying the property of Mr. Davis. The penalty is a residence at Jackson. Although much has been said about politics in connection with the White Lake piracy, it is but justice to say, that the respectable portion of all parties in the vicinity of the scene, speak of the affair with becoming indignation.