Diagram of township lines in the Northern Peninsula / surveyed by John Mullett under contracting date April 2, 1845.

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Diagram of township lines in the Northern Peninsula / surveyed by John Mullett under contracting date April 2, 1845.

Series 50 of record group 59-4 consists of a diagram of township lines in the Northern Peninsula as surveyed by John Mullett under contracting date April 2, 1845, and originally collected by either the Michigan Geological Survey or the Michigan Lands Division. The diagram is 12 1/2" x 19 1/2" in size, with no scale given.

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SNAC Resource ID: 7644595

State Archive of Michigan

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Michigan. Lands Division

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Mullett, John, 1786-1862

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John Mullett and his son, James H. Mullett, were government surveyors in Michigan, Indiana, Illinois, Wisconsin and Arkansas. Born in Halifax, Vt., July 11, 1786; moved with father's family to Genesee Co., N.Y., ca. 1806; went to Buffalo, engaged in tailoring; moved with his family to Detroit, 1820; was appointed surveyor of government lands for aprox. 30 years, surveying large portions of Mich., Ill. and Indiana; one of founders of Detroit (Masonic ) Lodge) 1821; Grand ...

Michigan. Geological Survey Division

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The Michigan Geological Survey was created by Public Act 20 of 1837. Its purpose was to conduct a geological and mineralogical survey of the state. The state legislature appointed Douglass Houghton the first state geologist (1837). In 1921, the state legislature established the Department of Conservation, and the Michigan Geological Survey became part of that department (Public Act 17 of 1921). The Department of Conservation established the Geological Survey Division circa 1947. In 1968, the dep...