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A PIONEER MINISTER BY REV. SUPPLY CHASE
APRIL 21, 1873
After remaining in the city one day, we left for our destination, Pontiac. Although the preceding winter had been one of the most severe, and noted for the immense quantity of snow, yet so dry had been the weather during the spring, that not a single mud hole was found between Detroit and Pontiac, the like of which did not occur again for many years. This road had been built at the expense of the U. S.. Government, and though no mud was found, yet the corduroy foundation, for the first twelve miles, was intolerably bad. We found Pontiac a thriving and busy village, of great expectations, and no small pretensions, as being, at that time, the largest interior town in the territory. The only house of worship in the town, was a small, frame building, standing on the site of the present Congregational church. The Baptist church occupied the courthouse, as a place of worship. At this time there was a small Baptist meeting-house, built in 1834, at Stony Creek, and a log house, built and used as a place or worship, by the Baptist church of Troy. These, it is believed, were the only houses of worship in the county of Oakland. On arrival at Pontiac, it was found that the church had made arrangements for preaching, so that the writer's services were unnecessary, and after a sojourn of a few days and notifying the H. M. Board of the situation, while waiting for further instructions, he concluded to visit Mt. Clemens. At this time it required about three weeks for a letter from Pontiac, or any interior town in Michigan, to reach New York, and an answer to be returned.
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