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Michigan Select Michigan Counties
MILTON,
Now called Battle Greek, was organized in 1833. The point of land at the junction of the Battle Creek with the Kalamazoo River, had attracted the attention of several gentlemen on the lookout for water-power, and when the lands were brought into market at the land office at White Pigeon, it was discovered that there were some half dozen rival applicants for the same property. A compromise was effected, certain parties bought off, and J. J. Gurnsey entered the lands in his own name, with the understanding, it is said, that Sands McCamley and Daniel G. Gurnsey should share equally with him, upon complying with certain conditions then mutually agreed upon.
The lands entered in Battle Creek were:
June 7th, 1831, John J. Gurnsey, on section 1, 449.50 acres.
June 17th, 1831, John J. Gurnsey, on section 12, 143.22 acres.
Same day, Isaac Thomas and D. Williams entered lands on section
14, 320.78 acres.
June 18th, 1831, Sylvester Sibley, on section 10, 240 acres.
June 18th, 1831, De Garmo Jones, on section 15, 160 acres.
August 29th, 1831, John Stewart, Jr., on section 15, 160 acres.
As we find Isaac Thomas, Dorrance Williams and John Stewart, Jr., living on their lands in 1831, the presumption is that they entered into the occupancy, and upon the cultivation of their purchases at once. At any rate they were there in 1831, industriously engaged in the praiseworthy effort of making the wilderness glad, and bud and blossom as the
rose.
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