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Esquire Dwinnell, of Emmet, was called upon to marry Robert Mc-Camly and Mary Nichols, which he essayed to do, in virtue of being a justice of the peace in Calhoun county. In order that the parties might avail themselves of the " spare room " of a friend living a little way from Dry Prairie, the justice met them there, and made the twain one flesh, according to law. After a day or two their pleasant dreams were shocked by the discovery that their friend's shanty was across the county line, to wit, in the county of Branch or Kalamazoo, in neither of which counties was Mr. Dwinnell a justice of the peace. Determined to literally comply with the requirements of a salutary law, the parties notified Esquire Dwinnell that he had a limited jurisdiction, and that he must hasten to his .own and their relief. He hunted up the parties, took them into his cutter, brought them across the county line and into the town of Athens, and in the cutter aforesaid married them, and this was the first marriage in town, and these were the circumstances thereof.
BEDFORD
Was organized in 1838. At the first town meeting, held in April, 1839, Caleb Kirby was elected supervisor, John Meacham, town clerk and justice of the peace. The first entry of lands in this town was on April 19th, 1832-John Bertram, 160 acres; also July 9th, 1832, John Bertram, eighty acres; 685 acres were entered in the year 1833. John Bertram purchased the land before named as a matter of speculation. He resided in the township of Marshall a few years, then went south, where he was unfortunate in business, and finally returned to England, his native land.
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