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Michigan Select Michigan Counties
Forty votes were cast for representative in place of Ezra Conviss, died. Sands McCamly received 39. At an election held August 21,1837, Isaac E. Crary received 20 votes, and Hezekiah G. Wells 13 votes for representative in congress.
LANDS ENTERED.
June 6th, 1831, Goodwin Stoddard, 560 acres.
June 10th, 1831, Augustine Canfield, 80 acres.
June 16th, 1831, Richard P. Hart, 80 acres;
Robt. Bedgewic, 80 acres
June 17th, 1831, Sandford Marsh, 160 acres.
August 21,1831, Augustine Canfield, 80 acres.
August 31,1831, Jeremiah Marvin, 160 acres.
The only entry of land in 1832 is 160 acres by Anson Gilbert, Messrs. Hurd, Sanders, Olmsted and Hart entered land in 1833.
The south part of the town is generally level; the north part, except Wet Prairie and its vicinity, is broken, somewhat hilly, and stony. Taken as a whole it is a good township of land, is well watered, possesses a good water power, well improved, and will ultimately become a wealthy town. The principal products of the town are wheat, wool and stock, all of which finds ready sale at the village of Burlington and at Union City, some three miles distant. E. A. Hayden and Theodore Hamilton settled in this town in an early day, and became at once rival candidates for political preferment in the town and county, and were reasonably successful. In addition to holding the offices of supervisor and justices of the peace, they each held a county office for one term. Both are now dead. Henry Jones, Esq., is and has long been a resident of this town. He is a scholarly gentleman of leisure, fond of books and painting, and an amateur astronomer.
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