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Depere

The town of Depere as near as it can be ascertained from the laws relating to its boundaries and extent may be described as follows- begin in Lake Michigan on the line between townships twenty three and twenty four three miles from Kewaunee, thence west to the west line of range twenty three; thence south two miles; thence west by the section line, the south line of the private land, claim number eleven on the east side of the Neenah, and the south line of the private claim confirmed to J.B. Labord [extended] on the west side of the river, extended westward to the west line of range twenty; thence south to the south line of townships number twenty two; thence east [six] twelve miles; thence south six miles; thence east to Lake Michigan on the south line of the county. The town is named from the Rapides des Peres; on the Neenah river six miles above Green Bay, being the first of a series of rapids extending along this river as far as Lake Winnebago. The descent on these rapids

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