Cadillac began granting land to villagers in Fort Ponchartrain in 1707. Between March 1707 and June 28, 1710, he made some 150 land grants, including 68 village lots to private individuals, 31 farms and 13 gardens.

Click here to view a map of Cadillac's land grants compared to Detroit today.

The 68 individual lots were granted as follows (most were 20 by 25 feet):

1. Pierre Chesne
2. Andre Chouet
3. Pierre Faverau dit LeGrandeur
4. Joseph Despre
5. Salomon Joseph du Vestin
6. Pierre Leger dit Parisien
7. Bonnaventure Compien dit L'Esperance
8. Jacob de Marsac dit Desrocher
9. ? D'Argenteuil
10. Jean Richard
11. Jean Labatier dit Champagne
12. Estienne Bontran
13. Pierre Hemard
14. Antoine Dupuis dit Beauregard
15. Jacques L'Anglois
16. Guillaume Bovet dit Deliard
17. Michael Masse
18. Michel Campau (53 feet on Antoine Street by 17 feet on Ste. Anne Street)
19. Louis Normand
20. Francois Tesee
21. Pierre Chantelon
22. Francois Bienvenu dit de L'Isle
23. Pierre Esteve
24. Blaise Surgere
25. Pierre Poirier
26. Antoine Ferron
27. Pierre Tacet
28. François Fafard de Lorme
29. Michel Dizier (Disier)
30. Jacob de Marsac
31. Rencontre
32. Desloriers
33. Xaintonge
34. Jacques du Moulin
35. Guilleaume Aguet
36. Louis Gastineau
37. Joseph Parent
38. ? Sirier
39. ? Quilenchive
40. ? Derance
41. ? du Figuier
42. ? La Montagne
43. Pierre Mallet
44. Antoine du Fresne
45. Jean Baptiste Chornic
46. Jean Casse
47. Paul L'Anglois
48. Jerome Marliard
49. Andre Bombardie
50. Pierre du Roy
51. Pierre Roy
52. Francois Margue
53. Antoine Magnant
54. Francois Bonne
55. Touissaints Dardennes
56. Pierre Bassinet
57. Francois Brunet
58. Antoine Beauregard
59. Marie Le Page (the first known female landowner in the Detroit area)
60. Jacques Campau
61. Jean Serond
62. Pierre Robert
63. ? L'Arramee
64. Rene Le Moine
65. Jacques Le Moine
66. Paul Guillet
67. Joseph Rinaud
68. Antoine Tuffe dit du Fresne

Ribbon farm was the name given to the original land grants given by Antoine Cadillac. The lots were typically up to 200 feet wide and up to 3 miles in length (the narrow width being parallel with the Detroit River).

Ribbon farm grants were free, but only in the sense that grantees didn't have to "buy" the land. There were plenty of rules and regulations, some of which resulted in payment or taxes being levied. Rules varied from grant to grant; some of these rules follow.

• No hares, rabbits, pheasants or partridges on the property could be killed.
• An annual rent was to be paid. Rates varied, from 5 livres to 5 livres 6 deniers (about $3.10).
• A fee was charged for trading privileges (10 livres).
• All grain was to be ground at Cadillac's mill at a charge of 8 pounds per minot (about a bushel).
• Grantees were required to help erect an annual Maypole at Cadillac's home or pay 3 livres annually.
• Grantees couldn't assume a trade that was reserved for Cadillac's artisans (this included blacksmith, armorer, cutler or brewer). Anyone could apply to Cadillac for a license in any of these trades. Joseph Parent's fee for a license to shoe horses was 600 livres, 2 hogsheads of all, and free shoeing for all of Cadillac's horses.
• Improvements on the land had to begin within three months of ownership.
• Granted land could not be sold or used as collateral without Cadillac's permission.
• If the sale of granted land was approved by Cadillac, he was given the first opportunity to buy.
• A fine of one-fourth the value of the land was charged to those who sold their land.
• Grantees were to provide the village with timber for boats and fortifications when necessary.
• Goods could be imported to the land, but any clerk used for this purpose had to be a resident of Fort Ponchartrain du Detroit.
• Landowners were not permitted to sell liquour to Native Americans.
• On St. Martin's day, a fee of a certain number of fowls, a certain dozen eggs and a certain measure of grain per arpent (land measure of the time) had be paid.
• All bread was to be baked in Cadillac's ovens.

Some of original grantees include: Guion, Witherell, Livernois, Riopelle, M. St. Aubin, the widow Beausseron, Trudeau, Magnau, Des Rivieres, De Ruisseau, Comparet Dufresne, Hubert, Lacroix, Monier. Later names include Robert Chene, Jean Chapotone, Desrocher, Beaubien, Robert Navarre, Eustache, Meloche, Moran, Gilbert, Seguin, Barois, Gamelin, Caron, Labadie, Cicot, Burrois, Debutes, Godet, Audrey, De Quindre, and De Lille.